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Hangouts chat, messenger,Allo, Duo, Google voice, Hangouts.... Make up your mind Google.
don't forget , launched by Google last week.
yea, all the diff product names are incredibly hard to keep track of. hopefully the product itself isn't so confusing-- the deep integration plus gsuite could be a big win.
ha! That too. 😞
Agree. It's not necessarily the product names for me, it's just the fact that they all have VERY similar functionality and can be easily combined into one (message+video) or two functioning app (messaging and video seperate)
and for sure, there should be running some legacy Google Talk app overthere
I saw a tweet from this morning that was trying to explain the different chat apps. I don't know if this embed link will work (testing)
It worked, and it's very helpful. Thanks!
Maker
that's just my opinion, not anything official. But it's helpful to think about it that way.
Where does Meet fit in?
Google's answer to Slack. We are deeply integrated with google's services - we use G-Suite as our office suite - so both Google Meet and now Chat are interesting to us. Meet has replaced appear.in and I can see Chat become the first Slack challenger we will look at seriously. Google are on their A game at the moment, both with their hardware offerings (huge surprise there) and their services.
seeing as slack's chat aspect is essentially IIRC on steroids (and easily copyable), it will be interesting to see how the integrations element is approached by google and others.
Very true. The integration, and willingness to be open, is one of Slack's defining features. Having said that, after an initial flurry of excitement, we have now removed almost all Slack integrations and went back to simplicity.
I 100% agree on integrations. Many of them cause productivity decreases as opposed to increases.
Totally valid, most of the fun integrations are not conducive to a work environment. But I was able to build some integrations at my last job that were super helpful, like the ability to create a bug report from inside Slack that would post to our Pivotal Board. The Slack API has a lot of power if you think of your company Slack as an OS for your team.
Slack by Google
GW is so 2009...😉
Since there is no description provided here, this is what provided in the blog "Hangouts Meet is a new video meeting experience with one goal: make joining meetings effortless so that people can be as productive as they are when they’re face-to-face."
Hunter
That's for a different product, . This is basically Google's version of Slack.
Thanks, but what I copied was from the page that opened by clicking "More Info" button on top of this page.
The blog post combines Meet & Chat, if you scroll down you'll see Hangouts Chat 🙂. Perhaps the More Info link should go to
Maker
I can answer some, not all, questions about this. It's a project I'm working on now. Soooo, shoot.
Are you based in MTV?
Maker
Not really the product question I was expecting, but yes, yes I am :)
any idea on how far we are away from early access? My name is on that list.
Weird considering that google is using Slack internally. One thing is certain: the bonds between chat and web conferencing are getting tighter. We even implemented some "Slack patterns" inside Livestorm live chat inside the webinar rooms.
where did you get that impression?
I wish they would make one that was similar to what Blab was like.
you can check out made by if you miss Blab ⭐️
I'm a big fan of the GSuite, so, this intrigues me. But our Slack *virtual office* has so many integrations it'd be harder to be replaced by another product. They'll need the same level of integrations.
Just curious - which integrations does your team use the most often?
most of my integrations allow some data to come from another app into Slack. We use Status Hero, Asana, Jira, Freshdesk, Github, etc.
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