{"id":611,"date":"2009-11-04T10:47:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T14:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2009-11-04T10:47:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T14:47:01","slug":"google-apps-to-add-beefed-up-video-chat-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/04\/google-apps-to-add-beefed-up-video-chat-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Apps To Add Beefed Up Video Chat Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced that within the next 6 to 12 months they will be adding improved video chat features within Google Apps.<\/p>\n<p>While Google didn&#8217;t reveal too many details, what is known is they will be offering multi-person video chats as part of the lineup.\u00a0 Currently, you can only have one-on-one video chats.\u00a0 All of the new features will also be integrated seamlessly within Gmail and the other apps, instead of as a new application.<\/p>\n<p>Google seems to be targeting business users specifically, where 2 million organizations account for 20 million Google Apps users.<\/p>\n<p>And with numbers like those, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if Google had plans to eventually roll out a complete video-conferencing solution in Google Apps&#8230;even offering a free service comparable to those offered by sites such as GoTo Meeting.\u00a0 After all, in 2007 they aquired video conferencing software from the Swedish company Marratech.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how this plays out though&#8230;as well as how their new offerings will affect businesses already in the marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced that within the next 6 to 12 months they will be adding improved video chat features within Google Apps. While Google didn&#8217;t reveal too many details, what is known is they will be offering multi-person video chats as part of the lineup.\u00a0 Currently, you can only have one-on-one video chats.\u00a0 All of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[344,137,118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}