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Re:Did Google+ Hangout just kill Skype video? by WrkInProgress on Thursday June 30, 2011 @08:55AM (#2713803)
From the blog post "Disclaimer: I still haven't tried Hangout, not enough people in my circles yet."

I don't think Google Hangout will have the same use case as most Skype video calls/chats (which are a one to one communication, or at least I would assume).

I think if anything (and this may be OT), companies like Path and the numerous group messaging apps should be the ones concerned with Circles and Huddle respectively.

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Re:Did Google+ Hangout just kill Skype video? by amirmc on Thursday June 30, 2011 @09:08AM (#2713844)
True, I haven't tried it (yet). There may be different use cases but there are still extra hurdles to using skype e.g sharing SkypeIDs and 'connecting', whereas on Hangout, that part is already covered. I can see that being pretty valuable once there are more people on the platform.

However, if I have the option, I think I'd rather run a conference call in Hangout than in Skype. The one issue would be that Hangouts are displayed to a circle whereas a Skype call is private to the people invited. Of course it would be trivial to set up a circle just for one hangout but that's still an extra step.

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Re:Did Google+ Hangout just kill Skype video? by TheOnly92 on Thursday June 30, 2011 @09:48AM (#2713981)
AFAIK, hangout seems to be a much casual thing. If you want to find specific targets I don't think you can do that with hangout. However I don't have an invite yet so I might be wrong.
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Re:Did Google+ Hangout just kill Skype video? by warseph on Thursday June 30, 2011 @09:58AM (#2714023)
As everything in Google+ you can choose a Circle, all your Circles, your Extended Circle, or just choose contact by contact, I think it's definitely a Skype killer :)
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