Facebook Add Video Calling Features

Facebook Video Calling provides new features that allow users to do video chat with each other. Supported by the Skype service was introduced on Wednesday (06/07/2011) in its official blog that social networking sites.

Facebook believes, combining its users with a user base of Skype video chat will encourage more and more popular. During this time, the video chat can only be done fellow users the same services, such as fellow Skype users only.

"Video chat has existed since several years, but has not been used in daily activity for most people. Sometimes it's hard to follow, or friends who will be contacted using different services," said Philip Su from Facebook in the company's official blog.

Announcement of the video chat feature is believed also to answer Google's breakthrough that provides video-based chat feature on his new social networking, Google +. However, with the number of users who have exceeded more than 600 million people worldwide, Facebook has a user base of capital is greater than Google at this time.

Both services are both free and web-based. However, current video chat Facebook for communication of two people. This is different from Google's Hangout at + that can be used to chat together up to 10 people, and even watch videos together.

Video chat feature will be available in the next few weeks. However, if you can not wait to try it, Facebook provides a special link.

Google will change picasa's and blogger's name

Shortly after launch the Google social networking Plus, Google is rumored to be consolidating its services. Two names for a service from Google that is already publicly known, ie, Picasa and Blogger, will be renamed with a frill Google as part of a strategy of integration into the social networking.

As the site Mashable.com reported on Tuesday (07/05/2011), will be replaced Google Picasa Photos, Blogger will be replaced while Google Blogs. These changes will be made within the next six weeks before Google + will be launched to the public in general. Picasa is a provider of online photo albums, while Blogger is a free blog service providers.

Such rebranding step is not only the first time does Google. For example, when it acquired GrandCentral VoIP service in 2007, later changed his name to Google Google Voice in 2009 as provided to the public.

In addition, the rebranding will strengthen the Google brand. Picasa and Blogger users so far probably do not know if you use Google's products to enter despite already being forced to use a single login address.

Picasa is a product of the acquisition in 2004, but his name is not changed then. So is the case that Google bought Blogger from Pyra Labs in 2003.