Facebook launches Skype video calling service
Mark Zuckerberg announced today on live broadcast the launch of video calls service in Facebook. The new feature is all based on Skype, recently bought by Microsoft, which will give the ability to users of both Skype and Facebook to communicate with each other.
The announcement of the new feature has also two other changes in instant communications platform of the social network; a new design and an improved group chat service.
With this new feature, a shortcut to make video calls with your friends will appear in the upper-right corner of their respective profiles. When a user click, a window will open automatically and the call will be held. The service is fully integrated with Skype.
Zuckerberg believes in the success of the service, partly because the novelty was a rapid response to “Hangouts”, the native video calls service of Google +. The difference, however, is that “we are using the best technology for video calls and we also used the best social structure of the market,” said the CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
To start using the service, just access http://www.facebook.com/videocalling