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Google Hangouts' New Features Make Work Meetings Slightly Less Annoying (cnet.com)
Google is rolling out two new features in its communication and messaging app, Hangouts. From a report: (Unfortunately, neither tools help decrease the utterances of such phrases like "How will this scale?" and "Run it up the flagpole.") The first is a video conferencing feature called Hangouts Meet. Meet allows people to hop on meetings via a web link through their laptops or mobile app. This link can be shared in an email or directly through a Google Calendar invite. Colleagues who are traveling without Internet can use a dedicated dial-in phone number. The second feature is Hangouts Chat, which lets coworkers message each other in dedicated chat rooms.
Never heard the phrase "run it up the flagpole" but if you find the question "how will this scale?" annoying, you may want to choose a new line of business.
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have had this for years.
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The phrase "hop on" is vastly more infuriating than either of those canards. It's a reliable tell that the person who's using it doesn't have to do any stateful work that gets derailed in an environment of constant pointless interruptions.
"Google Hangouts" and "Less Annoying" should NEVER be in the same paragraph, let alone the same sentence.
I had my business listing show up on the side and at top of search when people searched online for a service like mine in my area. This was for Google business/maps or whatever the hell they call it every 6 months. Had a good Google+ page. Use to get quite a few calls from my shop showing up on the search. Then one day it just disappeared. I got a bit busy with the shop for a few months and was like ok someone did a better job then me and got listed first now BUT not so, somewhere again Google changed their fucking Local Business crap and fully deleted my shop from their social media shit services and maps. When I logged in it stated my listing was removed for some violation which they wont tell you what it is, as they say it might help people to game the system.
When you submit a review it asks you to link to the page on Google maps/Business BUT when they remove it there is no link as its all been deleted by them.
Anyways after going WTF it was easier to just deleted the whole account and start over.
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Wait, what's changed then? Text based chats have been around forever. I've been using Hangouts to add people via phone numbers for years. So now the hangout has the ability to dial into it? So they just added the opposite connection direction? Is that literally it? Because as far as URL goes, you've always been able to send someone the URL of a Hangout once it is started, and anyone can join that way without a formal invite inside of the hangout. Additionally, Hangouts have already supported calendars this entire time. If you set the end time to years in the future, the same Hangout URL will work until that time expires. I've set this up with a short URL redirect to the same Hangout chatroom years ago that has never changed that my friends all know about. We all just pop in a casually chat it up whenever we're bored. Everyone knows the same short URL, and it just redirects to the full longer Google Hangouts URL.
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So google developed webex? What am I missing here?
Skype for Business too.
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If it has a Bullshit Bingo app that also keeps scoring, bonus if it uses the mike to listen to the drivel the markedroid drones on about and make sure nobody cheats.
NEWSFLASH, managers and markedroids: Nobody gives half a shit about your speeches in meetings. "Can we bring our laptops to your presentation so we can do some meaningful work while you hold your speech?" is the ONLY honest question you'll EVER be asked by a tech when it comes to your presentation.
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How in God's name is that supposed to make meetings less annoying?
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And what does that even mean?
It's free and perpetually in Beta!
In a business climate where corporate espionage can be so damaging, I can't understand the decision to use hangouts and give your proprietary knowledge to Google. Imagine what they could know about the internal workings of corporations just by scanning meetings.
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And sometimes it actually works.
WebEx is a horrible pile of java that isn't very portable (relies on binary JNI libraries for audio/video) and thus doen't work reliably on Linux 64 bits.
Adobe Connect is an aweful Flash monster (requieres freshplayer plugin layer under Linux) that crashes at the slightest disturbance (whenever the network devices or the mic sources change).
Meanwhile, all the various "meet"-type services (hangout meet, jitsi meet, etc.) rely on pretty standard HTML5/WebRTC. It works on anything under the sun that is compliant.
(Skype is in a middle ground. The older app might get problems when trying to run. And web Skype relies on ORTC, microsoft's own nih reinterpretation of the standards. So Microsoft Edge-only for now, but efforts are underway to bring it to linux).
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