![]() Slash commands are the norm for team messaging services these days, with Google Chat - and Hangouts before it - leveraging for fast and easy kaomoji insertion. One of the more fun overlaps is easter eggs - appropriately - with all of the classic slash commands continuing to work in Google Chat. Shared Storage for Gmail, Google Drive and Google+.While Google Chat does a great deal to modernize Hangouts, some similarities do remain. Google Play Apps and Services, the New Android Upd. Google Cross-Language Search, No Longer Available ![]() Google+ Photo Search With Image RecognitionĬreate Google Now Reminders in Google Search From OpenSocial to ClosedSocial, from OpenMessaging to ClosedMessaging, from idealism to realism. ![]() The Talk era was about openness, the Chat era was about ubiquity, the Hangouts era is about Google+, the new Google that's all about social and mobile. The initial name of Google+ Messenger was Huddle, which means "draw together for an informal, private conversation". Google+ is about real-life sharing, so Hangouts is built on top of the original Hangouts and Messenger features. Notifications are supposed to be synchronized for all your devices, so you only see them once, but I got multiple notifications. Hangouts lets you decide for each Google+ circle if you want to be added to a hangout by its members or if you want them to send a request. "We don't see Hangouts as a messaging product, we see it as a communication product," says product manager Kate Cushing. So what's Google+ Hangouts, after all? "The single communication app that we want our users to rely on," says Nikhyl Singhal, from Google. It still works with Gmail Chat and Google Talk, though. Unfortunately, Hangouts drops support for server-to-server XMPP, it can't interact with other XMPP apps/services. Hangouts has its own Easter Eggs and they're really funny. You can now use keyboard shortcuts, but only for the desktop clients. Google+ Hangouts lacks many features from Google Chat: voice chat, phone calls, sending SMS, formatting tricks. Here's what happens when you try to use them in Gmail, without joining Google+: Actually there are 2 features that are somehow tied to Google+: sharing photos (they're uploaded to Google+ photos) and group chat. Google+ Hangouts doesn't require Google+, but most Google+ Hangouts clients require Google+. The only other Google Chat clients are the Google Talk app for Windows and the chat boxes from iGoogle and orkut. Probably most Android users will upgrade from Google Talk to Google+ Hangouts. You can refuse to upgrade to Hangouts in Gmail, but the Gmail Chat feature will eventually be discontinued. How can you use this product? There are 5 ways: inside Google+ (replaces the Google Chat box), inside Gmail (optionally replaces the Gmail Chat box), using a Chrome extension (has already replaced the Google Chat extension and it requires Google+), an Android app (gradually replacing the built-in Google Talk app) and an iOS app (entirely new, requires Google+).Īs you can see, 3 of the 5 ways to use it require Google+. ![]() The product actually borrows the name of Google+'s group video chat feature. It includes "Google+", so it looks like a Google+ feature. It's supposed to replace products and features like Google Talk, Google Chat, Google+ Messenger and to become Google's unified messaging service. I'm trying to understand Google+ Hangouts. ![]()
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