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The Alive Web

THE ALIVE WEB With the recent additions of the much talked about Skype/Facebook video chat and Google Hangout, the internet has been abuzz with video chatting and the "Alive Web" paradigm. We've put together the main players in this field to see which one offers the most fun and where they are all positioned. THE NEW ERA OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATION & ENTERTAINMENT THE MAIN PLAYERS f FACEBOOK CHAT GOOGLE HANGOUT TINYCHAT ROUNDS A CLOSER LOOK USER NUMBERS FROM USER NUMBERS FROM FACEBOOK ONLY FACEBOOK ONLY JUST LAUNCHED JUST LAUNCHED POTENTIAL FOR: FUTURE STILL UNKNOWN 750,000,000 I MILLION APPROX. 2.5 MILLION MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS BUT LOOKS PROMISING MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS APPROX. f DESTINATION SITE CROSS PLATFORM FACEBOOK GOOGLE • SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM IN-APP FEATURES IN-APP FEATURES You Tube You Jtv Tube NO FEATURE AVAILABLE NO FEATURE AVAILABLE MUTUAL WEB BROWSING You can watch YouTube videos in Google Hangout but only one person has control of the browser surfing. During chatting sessions, video chatters can mutually browse internet sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Google Maps and Justin. TV. IN-APP FEATURES NO FEATURE AVAILABLE NO FEATURE AVAILABLE NO FEATURE AVAILABLE With over 30 different games, chatters can play one-on-one in app games such as Truth or Dare, Battleship, Trivia, Chess or Shooter games. REAL-TIME GAMES IN-APP FEATURES NO FEATURE AVAILABLE NO FEATURE AVAILABLE NO FEATURE AVAILABLE Video effects and animated gifts can be employed during chat sessions, allowing users to swim underwater or even have it snow in the middle of summer. VIDEO EFFECTS IN-APP FEATURES NO FEATURE AVAILABLE NO FEATURE AVAILABLE KIND OF One of the most popular features, Rounds chatters can take snapshots with special effects and add them to the public photostream. You can take screen grabs in TinyChat but there is no specific photobooth feature. PHOTOBOOTH FRIEND CIRCLE Communication tool. Hangout with friends. Massive multiuser parties. Fun, entertainment, and games. BEST USED FOR IN-APP FEATURES SNOOZE! LOVE IT! SNOOZE! LOVE IT! SNOOZE! LOVE IT! SNOOZE! LOVE IT! With a wide range of in-app features, games, interaction, and creative entertainments, Rounds provides great stimulus during even the most boring video chat session. Google Hangout does offer some really intuitive and With Facebook video chat you get the great Skype quality of video and audio, but beware: when using Facebook chat you may find yourself reaching for the snooze button. easy ways to chat with multiple people. Can be boisterous when many of those people choose to talk at the same time. TinyChat has some great multi-chatting features. It allows for chatroom creation but does little else to enhance the one-on-one chat experience. OVERALL IN-APP ENJOYMENT OTHER FEATURES NO FEATURE AVAILABLE NO FEATURE AVAILABLE YES YES GROUP CHATTING You can chat with up to 10 people in Google Hangout. You can add up to 20 people to group chat within TinyChat. MAYBE MAYBE YES YES OPEN TO 3RD PARTY DEVELOPERS No specifications of how open the video feature will be for the developers. No specifications of how open the video feature will be for the developers. You can add TinyChat to your websites and build apps with the chat feature. You can build features that add to the Rounds chatting experience, such as in-app games and activities. NO FEATURE AVAILABLE NO FEATURE AVAILABLE YES YES You can randomly chat with other users in TinyChat, You can randomly chat with other users in Rounds. RANDOM CHATTING MOST LIKELY NOT SAFE FOR WORK MOST LIKELY SAFE FOR WORK In TinyChat you can boot anyone not welcome to your video chat room but there are no additional filters. making who you chat with next a gamble. Only users with 100+ friends can random chat and they can only chat with people in their own age group. The chats are monitored in real-time and users aren't SAFE FOR WORK SAFE FOR WORK NSFW? anonymous. A CLOSER LOOK AT 40+ 600,000- 75k+ 22.8 R O UN D S MINUTES DAILY MILLION Average time spent on application. Video chat sessions a day. Snapshots taken every day. Coins earned in June SOURCES: Rounds.com I TinyChat.com I Facebook.com I Google.com I TechCrunch.comI GigaOm.com

The Alive Web

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With the recent additions of the much talked about Skype/Facebook video chat and Google Hangout, the Internet has been abuzz with video chatting and the 'Alive Web' paradigm.

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