Popularest News: Facebook and Skype Counter Google

The Internet social network Facebook has launched new features yesterday, in partnership with Skype, for its instant messaging system. The goal is to compete with the Google + released a few days earlier.

Communicate in video on Facebook was now possible. Since Wednesday, following a partnership with Skype, the online social network has set up new properties to its instant messaging system. Everyone can chat free with its corresponding video by clicking on a camera icon. Simply being with a webcam. And no need to have as many account Skype . The software loads automatically set up the video call, even if not installed on the computer.

" A few months ago, we started working with Skype to bring video calling on Facebook. We put in the public discussion like that instant all the conversations begin in the same place , "said Philip Su on the company blog. But the timing of the launch calls anyway. Because the novelty of the video telephony service comes just days after arriving in this part of Google +, the experimental Google social network.

Other major steps

But with Google +, the leading search engines have a head start. For among the features presented, the video communication service can be shared by groups of up to ten people. As for now, Facebook does not offer its new service between two parties.

At the launch, Mark Zuckerberg, the president of the community platform, has introduced another new feature: the ability to instantly chat with all members of the same " group "of friends. He also took advantage to claim over 750 million users worldwide (against less than 650 million in February). He hopes to pass the billion mark by the end of the year, recently reached by Google. " The world in general think that social networks will be everywhere. It's a matter of time before this means billions of people, with us or others , "he said. The war of social networks is not ready to end.