Rumor: Facebook Set To Announce Video Chat Capabilities Powered By Skype Next Week
Rumor: Facebook Set To Announce Video Chat Capabilities Powered By Skype Next Week
Posted 07/02/2011 at 2:54pm
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The ink hasn’t even dried on Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype, but the Redmond based software giant appears to be working diligently in the background to push the VOIP service to even more platforms. Facebook has scheduled an invitation only even for July 6th , and the rumor mill seems pretty certain Mark Zuckerberg will announce a browser based version of Skype, which integrates with your Facebook friends list.
Given how close Microsoft and Facebook have been in recent years, it wouldn’t surprise us one bit if this turned out to be true. Video chat would be a pretty natural extension of their constantly evolving communication and messaging strategy, and the Skype brand would lend an air of credibility to the announcement. Skype stands to benefit from the already established social graph for each user, and Facebook gains a stable and mature video codec to build upon.
We won’t know for sure until next week, but is video chatting a Facebook feature you can see yourself using? Let’s just hope they think to include a “I’m not wearing any pants button”, so we can head off any potentially awkward incoming call requests before they happen.
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Holly Golightly
July 05, 2011 at 11:49pm
I guess this is another reason for more people to visit the world's most annoying social network?
bpstone
July 04, 2011 at 3:14pm
How about to focus your attention Skype on giving me my front facing video chat capability on my Thunderbolt I was supposed to have months ago. I'm writing Verizon and getting an iPhone 4 32gb to replace it. I've heard of other people exchanging their Tbolts for iPhone after duking it out with them. I didn't spend $300 for such a piece of crap. Poor battery life, no gingerbread, no skype video chat (even though the camera looks at me every day), rebooting issues, and etc... An iPhone 4 what I should have got anyhow obviously. Shame on you HTC and Verizon for releasing this piece of junk! (T_T)
neros1x
July 03, 2011 at 11:45pm
Facebook can't even get their regular chat to work and they think they can skype?
neros1x
July 03, 2011 at 11:45pm
Facebook can't even get their regular chat to work and they think they can skype?
Baer
July 03, 2011 at 11:49am
I love Skype. I use it all the time to communicate with clients all over the world. It is cheap, almost free and it is reliable. On the other hand I am reluctent to let anymore Google stuff have access to my PC or network.
Bullwinkle J Moose
July 03, 2011 at 12:37pm
I hate Skype and Skype Propaganda shills
You couldn't pay me enough to use that spyware
The only way to guarantee the security of your encrypted voice communications is to use open source encryption that you understand (Like the one I showed you below)
Closed source encryption that you DO NOT understand must be kept away from networks to prevent it being used as spyware against YOU and all of your Clients
You must also guarantee that NOBODY has personal access to the encrypted data EVER before it is destroyed
Anytime you give blind trust to an unknown 3rd party for closed source encryption AND the decryption key, you just told all your deepest secrets to persons unknown because if "THEY" (Parties Unknown) provided the decryption keys, then "THEY" can decrypt your message to a network server for later use (Against You)
Bad Idea!
You should reread my post below!
Because my encryption is open source AND understandable to even a 12 year old, you can verify in your own home whether or not you or anyone else can decrypt your messages over a network
You will never be able to do that with Skype!
Baer
July 03, 2011 at 12:59pm
I amd my clients (some of the largest electronic companies in the world) do not agree with much of what you say and have not seen that but alas, we all have our likes and dislikes and tend to justify them.
Mighty BOB!
July 03, 2011 at 2:07pm
Well you may not have a need for it, but the point is that some other people do have a want or need for video conferencing.
iceman08
July 03, 2011 at 2:58pm
Mighty BOB! took the words outta my fingers. And I have nothing to hide from law enforcement, so I don't have to encrpyt my conversations. I have other methods should I need to do that. And the article is talking about the addition of video chat
Bullwinkle J Moose
July 03, 2011 at 2:57pm
Non secure communications sounds good to you?
Well then Skype is for YOU!
I'd rather have security that I understand, for Free, where I am the sole posessor of the decryption key and without Government backdoors
But thats just me I guess
The only person who can secure your communications is "YOU"
But then again, Skype is more convenient..
So knock yourself out!
Baer
July 03, 2011 at 8:37pm
I have to video confrence with clients Ijust had a video confrence with two groups who I wanted to introduce each others technology to each other. One was in Israel and one in Schenzhen. Using Skype I could let them see what we were talking about instead of just sending a video file. It saved a trip. All of the IP is patented, if someone listnmed in, so what. The point is that I now have someone that is interested in taking a new development to market weeks ahead of when they might have been able to see it. Of course there are other ways to video confrence but using Skype we could set up the face to face meeting and actually see what we were talking about in less than an hour.
You think Google is secure? You think the mail is secure? You think telling someone you trust face to face is always secure? The point is that SKYPE is a great tool that meets many peoples needs much of the time and easily. You do not want to use it? Your choice!
Bullwinkle J Moose
July 03, 2011 at 5:59am
Why would anyone want to use a closed source, backdoored encryption like SKYPE?
Thats just insane!
Go to Google News and type> Skype Backdoored to get the News about Microsoft building backdoors into Skype for Law Enforcement
How retarded is That?
Any 12 yr old kid can make their own UNBREAKABLE voice encryption using nothing more than Adobe Audition in 5 minutes flat without worrying about closed source and/or backdoored encryption schemes like Skype
If Skype actually used Unbreakable encryption, then why would it need to be closed source when the Courts can protect their intellectual property?
It wouldn't, and you cannot prove that Skype encryption is unbreakable by simply closing the sourcecode
The mighty N.S.A. cannot break a voice communication that is added to a pink noise file generated in Audition yet easily decoded using an exact copy of the original pink noise file (BUT INVERTED)
The inverted noise file must be saved at a level 3dB lower than the original noise file to EXACTLY cancel out the non-inverted noise yet leave the original voice message intact
For Perfect encoding and decoding, save the files as Windows PCM wavefiles or Apple AIFF
Most other formats do not allow you to decode the original voice message without adding background noise
As long as BOTH noisefiles begin at EXACTLY the same point in the multitrack editor of Audition, you will get a Perfectly decoded voicefile without any background noise
BUT, If you move either noisefile to the right or left in multitrack view, all you will hear is noise!
This also proves another point...
The N.S.A. are a punch of PUNKS!
Ghok
July 02, 2011 at 5:05pm
No. I like Google's service, and am rarely logged into Facebook. But people who are always on Facebook will love it.
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