It’s rumoured that Facebook is extending its standalone Messenger app for iPhone to include video chat capabilities, and 9to5mac reports that the current beta version is “smooth most of the time”.
No, it’s not an Onion article. A Washington DC plastic surgeon is being hit with patients rendered so self-conscious by their video chatting visages that they’re asking for phone-specific facelifts. Technology is great except when it’s so, so awful.
Well, we said it was going to happen, but we didn’t think it would be so soon. Less than two weeks after the White House joined Google+, President Obama will go live in a Google+ Hangout to answer your questions.
Not even a week into 2012 and we’ve already got our eyes on the dumbest SkyMall contraption of the year: the StarScreen Social Backdrop, a piece of printed plastic that attaches to your chair to show a background when you video chat.
Skype’s been powering Facebook’s video chat feature since July, but its new apps for Windows and OS X now let you use the Skype client to directly make video calls to your Facebook friends.
