What about google+ hangouts ? It's new , it's fun, and maybe even radical (may make video chat popular).
It could easily be the new social: With it's currently addictive quality , plus more video content , plus social games.
But it has a few issues:
1. Scaling - it's to scale hard at the google level, maybe even hard to scale at the isp level (depending on demand).
2. High cost - it needs a different business model than the usual google adwords/data-mining models.
3. Hangouts could be a usefull asset in their fight for the tv and tablet markets. So opening it up depends on other considerations.
So maybe the current google+ is just an experiment(to test scalability and user response) and that's the reason for the limiting invite process and the lack of advertising .But when all the pieces we'll be ready they'll launch in full scale.
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What about google+ hangouts ? It's new , it's fun, and maybe even radical (may make video chat popular).
It could easily be the new social: With it's currently addictive quality , plus more video content , plus social games.
But it has a few issues:
1. Scaling - it's to scale hard at the google level, maybe even hard to scale at the isp level (depending on demand).
2. High cost - it needs a different business model than the usual google adwords/data-mining models.
3. Hangouts could be a usefull asset in their fight for the tv and tablet markets. So opening it up depends on other considerations.
So maybe the current google+ is just an experiment(to test scalability and user response) and that's the reason for the limiting invite process and the lack of advertising .But when all the pieces we'll be ready they'll launch in full scale.