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09 Jul Facebook’s Awesome Announcement

Facebook’s Awesome Announcement: Group Chat, Video Chat, New Chat Design (PICTURES)

Mark Zuckerberg promised “something awesome” on Wednesday’s meeting. Facebook has deliver a new chat features, together with the earlier reported Skype-video chat integration.

The new features include a redesigned chat line, group chats, and the aforementioned video chat, all explained on Facebook’s blog.

The group chat quality will let users chat with multiple friends at once by selecting “Add Friends to Chat.” According to Facebook, 50 percent of users are using the Groups element, for things like co-ordinating events. user can add friends that are not online at the time, and those friends will receive a summary of the chat later on. The feature rolls out today.

The chat redesign takes into account the size of a user’s browser window and adjusts accordingly. Zuckerberg noted that users have found it difficult to start chats with the previous design. A new sidebar appear when the window is large enough and lists your most-messaged friends, flat ones who are not online. A simplify chat tab will give users “one-click access” to chatting with friends. The new chat design will also roll out today.

Video chat, which the company collaborate on with Skype, lets users click a video call button at the peak of their chat window in order to start the call. Users can also run off video messages for people who aren’t there. Once a user clicks the video chat feature, a plug-in is downloaded to enable the call in “ten to twenty seconds.” The feature will roll out to everyone in the next few weeks, though users can get on earlier if they’re eager by going to Facebook videocalling. It is not yet available on the mobile app.

“We have a very venerable relationship with Microsoft,” said Zuckerberg, who noted that Facebook had actually been working with Skype prior to Microsoft’s acquisition.

Zuckerberg as well open that Facebook has hit 750 million worldwide users, with 4 billion pieces of in rank shared each day.

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