In the next few weeks, Facebook will launch an application allowing their users to have a high-quality voice conversation with anyone on their friends list. Facebook has enlisted the help of Vivox, a Boston-based company that provides the integrated voice service for virtual worlds and has more than 15 million users worldwide, to create and run this new app.
After downloading Vivox’s plug-in, Facebook users can have one-on-one chats to large group discussions. Vivox is even making the technology available to any third-party Facebook application developer, so any app, from games to utilities, can have a voice component.
This sounds interesting. It could be a really cool thing. However there are time that I would rather just sit and type while i'm doing other things and not have to talk to anyone. I can multi-task a lot qicker when I really don't have to talk to anyone. But I can see how this could be useful tool for a lot of reasons. Conrence calls, if you are travleing, long distance relationships--cheaper than a phone charge i gues--and many other things. It deffinatly makes you experience with facebook a more personl one and you get a sence of trust when you actually hear someones voice.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I can see where individuals and groups who are already utilizing Facebook for lots of different things might like the additional feature of voice-chat, I personally don't see myself ever using it. I don't currently use any applications on Facebook, and I'm not really very happy with the recent Live Feed change, so I am spending less time on Facebook than ever before.
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