Facebook Skype Powered Video Chat Is "Facebook's Awesome New Product"

While Facebook is busy giving out teasers that they're going to announce something 'awesome' next week. Here's the spoiler - that awesome new product is browser based video chat application powered by Skype. TechCrunch's Facebook Will Launch In-Browser Video Chat Next Week In Partnership With Skype • TechCrunchhave revealed that their speculations based on Facebook's geared up desktop team hiring were true. The software is likely to have a desktop component, which is what Skype is awesomely good at. It's not very clear whether users will need Skype installed on their system to run the browser based video chat.

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Facebook's Skype Powered Video Chat Launches On July 6

This isn't the first time such news has sprung up. Even in past, there were news about Skype and Facebook closely working together to launch a video chat product. This product, would give a huge boost to Skype whose current user base is at 170 million worldwide. Facebook, on the other hand is very big with over 750+ million users. Once Facebook rolls out the product to all its users, Skype's usage and adoption is likely to surge - which is a great news for #-Link-Snipped-#and bad news for Google.

Google recently launched assault on Facebook by launching the #-Link-Snipped-# service. Google+ integrates a Skype competitor called 'Google +Hangouts' - which offers multi-person video chat withing what's called Google +Circles. We don't know whether the new Facebook Video Chat product will support group chat - but it likely will, because that's what giving Google an edge right now. And if it really does, it'll surely make Google Hangouts irrelevant.

Via: Facebook Will Launch In-Browser Video Chat Next Week In Partnership With Skype • TechCrunch