Facebook Group Chat And Video Telephony Announced - Links To Skype

Facebook has announced two new services brings more sharing is a social network - a group discussion and video calls,

After rumors and speculation, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage today in a Facebook event that was broadcast live on the site.

In the event, Mark Zuckerberg, said: "We have been busy building things for the last six months - today is what we call the beginning of the 2011 season."

The only thing that is new is the ability to launch an ad hoc discussion group on the service and also the addition of video calls, with a little help from Skype.

He was also a makeover in the chat window, making it easier to talk to several people.

Facebook video chat


Speech by Mark Zuckerberg focused mainly on the power of social network sharing and how this is the main driver of traffic to the site.

"Social networking is at a crossroads right now. History has always been to connect people, "said Mark Zuckerberg.

"Stuff amount, which is now divided into two times what it was years ago. This explosive growth is profound. The thing that is growing faster than people on Facebook is to be distributed on Facebook."

"If you look at how participation is increasing, which can be traced in the future. So if that is what people are sharing now so you do not need to create applications to include this in the coming years. "

Facebook hopes that the group discussion and video, allows for this, but do not do it alone.

Facebook video chat is using Skype - something that was widespread. That's the big difference between what is Facebook compared to other Internet companies, according to Mark Zuckerberg - who was beating a dig at Google, which recently announced its own video chat as part of Google +.



In his speech, said: "Working with Skype underscores our approach to how we build these things, we leave this kind of applications that are best in class in the creation of these things ..

"This is a big difference from other Internet companies, and the millions who try things for herself."

Zuckerberg has confirmed that the video chat is a plug-in that must be downloaded.

Tony Bates, CEO of Skype, said about the connection between Facebook and Skype: "We believe it is a lot of business sense, we have a shared vision of what the communication medium n" there is no better platform to paste technology at the top. "