Last week, Facebook launched its video chat. Saying this was going to be an “awesome” announcement and then showcasing basic video chat and group text chat was, and I’m being kind, disappointing. Still, Facebook does have something amazing here — I just don’t think it’s worked out yet. But I do think this is the beginning of something big. Facebook made the same initial mistake with its video chat feature that virtually every company has made so far with similar services. It assumes that people want to see who they are talking to and be seen while they’re talking.
The solution to group text chat is not getting all your friends to use a 3rd party web site. The answer is to get the mobile OS vendors to license Smashtalk. Smashtalk is patent-pending software that provides Reply-All functionality to all SMS users without any web site and without any changes to the existing SMS infrastructure. More information can be found at www.smashtalk.net
. . . Jobs is not boring in his own way? The only exciting thing about a "Jobs" presentation is what the "surprise" will be. Not the presentation of it. Every time it's the same monologue delivery.
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Posted by: Rob Enderle July 11, 2011 05:00 AMLast week, Facebook launched its video chat. Saying this was going to be an “awesome” announcement and then showcasing basic video chat and group text chat was, and I’m being kind, disappointing. Still, Facebook does have something amazing here — I just don’t think it’s worked out yet. But I do think this is the beginning of something big. Facebook made the same initial mistake with its video chat feature that virtually every company has made so far with similar services. It assumes that people want to see who they are talking to and be seen while they’re talking.