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Hangouts Chat by Google (Early Access) - Bring your team together

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Khalif
Hangouts chat, messenger,Allo, Duo, Google voice, Hangouts.... Make up your mind Google.
Ryan Hoover
@khaliphj don't forget Meet, launched by Google last week.
Owen Bossola
@khaliphj yea, all the diff product names are incredibly hard to keep track of. hopefully the product itself isn't so confusing-- the deep integration plus gsuite could be a big win.
Khalif
@rrhoover ha! That too. 😞
Khalif
@owenbossola Agree. It's not necessarily the product names for me, it's just the fact that they all have VERY similar functionality and can be easily combined into one (message+video) or two functioning app (messaging and video seperate)
Caito Scattini
@khaliphj and for sure, there should be running some legacy Google Talk app overthere
Ross Rojek
I saw a tweet from @mulligan this morning that was trying to explain the different chat apps. I don't know if this embed link will work (testing)
Jen Carney
@sacbookreviewer @mulligan It worked, and it's very helpful. Thanks!
Brenden Mulligan
@jennesaisquoi7 @sacbookreviewer that's just my opinion, not anything official. But it's helpful to think about it that way.
Benjamin Pantilat
@sacbookreviewer @mulligan Where does Meet fit in?
Andreas Duess
Google's answer to Slack. We are deeply integrated with google's services - we use G-Suite as our office suite - so both Google Meet and now Chat are interesting to us. Meet has replaced appear.in and I can see Chat become the first Slack challenger we will look at seriously. Google are on their A game at the moment, both with their hardware offerings (huge surprise there) and their services.
jeremy carson
@andreasduess seeing as slack's chat aspect is essentially IIRC on steroids (and easily copyable), it will be interesting to see how the integrations element is approached by google and others.
Andreas Duess
@thejeremycarson Very true. The integration, and willingness to be open, is one of Slack's defining features. Having said that, after an initial flurry of excitement, we have now removed almost all Slack integrations and went back to simplicity.
Brandon
@andreasduess @thejeremycarson I 100% agree on integrations. Many of them cause productivity decreases as opposed to increases.
Christian Montoya
@getbrandflakes @andreasduess @thejeremycarson Totally valid, most of the fun integrations are not conducive to a work environment. But I was able to build some integrations at my last job that were super helpful, like the ability to create a bug report from inside Slack that would post to our Pivotal Board. The Slack API has a lot of power if you think of your company Slack as an OS for your team.
Steven Rueter
Slack by Google
Steven Rueter
@colllin GW is so 2009...😉
Rajesh Pandurangan
Since there is no description provided here, this is what provided in the blog "Hangouts Meet is a new video meeting experience with one goal: make joining meetings effortless so that people can be as productive as they are when they’re face-to-face."
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Hunter
@raajesh_rp That's for a different product, https://www.producthunt.com/post.... This is basically Google's version of Slack.
Rajesh Pandurangan
@editandrew Thanks, but what I copied was from the page that opened by clicking "More Info" button on top of this page.
Nic Coates
@raajesh_rp @editandrew The blog post combines Meet & Chat, if you scroll down you'll see Hangouts Chat 🙂. Perhaps the More Info link should go to https://gsuite.google.com/campai...
Brenden Mulligan
I can answer some, not all, questions about this. It's a project I'm working on now. Soooo, shoot.
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@mulligan Are you based in MTV?
Brenden Mulligan
@niket Not really the product question I was expecting, but yes, yes I am :)
Andreas Duess
@mulligan any idea on how far we are away from early access? My name is on that list.
Gilles Bertaux
Weird considering that google is using Slack internally. One thing is certain: the bonds between chat and web conferencing are getting tighter. We even implemented some "Slack patterns" inside Livestorm live chat inside the webinar rooms.
David Aronchick
@gillesbertaux where did you get that impression?
Jordan Finnigan
eboy
I wish they would make one that was similar to what Blab was like.
Angie
@eboy you can check out @wekikiparty made by @KikiSchirr if you miss Blab ⭐️
eboy
Pablo Fernández
I'm a big fan of the GSuite, so, this intrigues me. But our Slack *virtual office* has so many integrations it'd be harder to be replaced by another product. They'll need the same level of integrations.
Annabelle Yee
@pupeno Just curious - which integrations does your team use the most often?
Pablo Fernández
@annabelleyee most of my integrations allow some data to come from another app into Slack. We use Status Hero, Asana, Jira, Freshdesk, Github, etc.
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