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Charles Wiggins
03-13-2015, 9:55 AM
Anyone tried this yet?

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Myk Rian
03-13-2015, 11:40 AM
I've seen the icon, just never thought about clicking it.

Curt Harms
03-14-2015, 8:25 AM
It'll be interesting to see if WebRTC, the technology that Hello uses, will catch on. It'd be nice to have the equivalent of HTTP or TCP/IP for video calling where the closed standard is not controlled by one entity (Skype, owned by Microsoft). It looks to be fairly bare bones right now, just person to person. No video conferencing, no collaboration or remote desktop functions. The upside is that it works in all major browswers except I.E. and Microsoft says they're working on that. It'll be interesting to see how hard they work given that WebRTC could devalue their $8.5 billion investment in Skype.