By: Clint Boulton, eWeek
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched video chat powered by Skype July 6, pundits immediately took to shaming and flaming the company for launching the service one week after Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) launched its own social network to beta with its own video application. Facebook, the world’s leading social network with 750 million users, took more than seven years to launch a proprietary video chat service it’s borrowing from a partner. Google+ launched out of the gate with Hangouts, a cloud video conferencing platform built in-house using XMPP, Jingle and other real-time communications standards.
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