Re:Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
by twothamendment on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @11:58AM
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Are there any plans to have a decent API? Getting a script to post to Slack is trivial. Same with having a bot read all the messages in realtime.
Re:Screen sharing comes to Slack video calls
by kyrra on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:27PM
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From: https://blog.google/products/g-suite/meet-the-new-enterprise...
"The Hangouts Chat platform supports a wide range of capabilities — from bots to simple scripting using Google App Script — and integrates with third-party applications so teams can do more right from within the conversation."
That's I think all that has been said so far. More details will come once it's released.
Hangout Chat is really a rework of the idea of hangouts. It brings a lot of functionality that people like from Slack (everything you mention I believe).
Note that Hangouts today does have search sorta (it ain't great). If conversation history is on, it can be searched from Gmail web (not Inbox either), using the "in:chat" filter.
(I work for G, opinions are my own)
[0] https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/03/09/google-takes-slack-...