{"id":79649,"date":"2017-03-10T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=79649"},"modified":"2017-04-10T10:07:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:07:50","slug":"google-splits-hangouts-into-video-app-and-communications-platform","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/google-splits-hangouts-into-video-app-and-communications-platform","title":{"rendered":"Google Splits Hangouts into Video App and Communications Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is making changes to Hangouts by splitting the service in two: Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat.<\/p>\n<p>Hangouts Meet is a video meeting experience, which includes video conferencing for remote meetings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve consistently heard from customers about ways we can improve Hangouts, like making it easier to work with external clients or reducing the \u2018time to start\u2019 a meeting to zero,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.google\/products\/g-suite\/meet-the-new-enterprise-focused-hangouts\/\">said Scott Johnston<\/a>, director of product management for Hangouts. &#8220;That&#8217;s why we&#8217;ve built Hangouts Meet to have a light, fast interface and smart participant management.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Chats is now similar to Slack\u2014&#8221;an intelligent communication app for teams that takes direct messaging in Hangouts and evolves it to reflect the way modern teams talk business,&#8221; according to Google.<\/p>\n<p>Chat&#8217;s deep integration with G Suite enables users to view Drive content directly in conversations. There&#8217;s also filtered search to access past content and conversations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chat is built not only to reflect the way teams work, but to provide a platform for the enterprise tools they work with,&#8221; says Johnston. &#8220;The Hangouts Chat platform supports a wide range of capabilities\u2014from bots to simple scripting using Google App Script\u2014and integrates with third-party applications so teams can do more right from within the conversation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meet is available today, rolling out to all customers this month. Chat is currently in an early adopter program.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2017\/02\/14\/google-adds-shareable-lists-feature-to-maps-app<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is making changes to Hangouts by splitting the service in two: Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat. Hangouts Meet is a video meeting experience, which includes video conferencing for remote meetings. &#8220;We&#8217;ve consistently heard from customers about ways we can improve Hangouts, like making it easier to work with external clients or reducing the \u2018time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":79651,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[194,158,157,122],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-79649","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News","tag-google","tag-productivity","tag-social","tag-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/79649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/79649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/79651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79649"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=79649"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=79649"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=79649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}