The video-chat launch underscores a bigger point: Facebook and Google are now in a social-networking war, and it’s clear that users will come out the winners as the companies try to outdo each other. Google seems to finally have scored in social networking, with Google+ getting a lot of positive buzz from those who have gotten a chance to play with it for the past week. Hangouts is being called its possible killer app.
The networking men in the black pajamas are going a “mano a mano.” Good Morning Silicon Valley sums it up nicely, the question is: Do I care?
A journalist's musings and wanderings, trying to find mindfulness and depth in the shallows of social media.
