{"id":3533,"date":"2011-07-06T14:16:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T18:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beingmanan.com\/wp\/?p=3533"},"modified":"2011-07-06T17:58:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T21:58:06","slug":"facebook-video-calling-wp7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/2011\/07\/facebook-video-calling-wp7\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s Video Calling and WP7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Math lesson by Zuckerberg today, the expected video calling addition to Facebook chat with Skype got me thinking about Windows Phone. Having played with Mango for a few hours, the Facebook chat integration is pretty solid. The ability to switch between SMS and chat is\u00a0seamless and useful.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Windows Phone Mango is rumored to introduce video calling, the front facing camera in the emulator and Nokia N9 suggest so. As I wrote earlier, bringing Skype &amp; Facebook chat to WP7 <a href=\"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/2011\/05\/microsofts-leverage-against-carriers-for-wp7\/\" target=\"_blank\">gives Microsoft leverage with the carriers<\/a> (who aren&#8217;t being nice to WP7). Microsoft has its own infrastructure to power video calling but <a href=\"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/2011\/02\/microsoft-to-bring-office-365-to-windows-phone-hint-think-lync-facetime\/\" target=\"_blank\">we haven&#8217;t seen much happening<\/a> for the consumer segment. (It&#8217;s primarily enterprise stuff.)<\/p>\n<p>This brings me to video calling on WP7. Facebook chat is already a part of Mango and Microsoft can bring this to WP7 without having to invest resources to developing their own implementation. For Microsoft, Skype &amp; Facebook&#8217;s growth are important, they&#8217;ve invested in both. Skype being a part of WP7 gives them the <a href=\"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/2011\/05\/skype-and-microsoft\/\" target=\"_blank\">multi-platform presence<\/a> &amp; Facebook integration gives them the no-Skype-client required freedom!<\/p>\n<p>With Windows 8, <a href=\"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/2011\/06\/chatter-unified-voice-text-chatting-app-in-windows-8\/\" target=\"_blank\">video calling integration has been spotted<\/a> and speculation has it that it might be powered by Skype since the Windows team was on board with the Skype purchase. Deep integration with Facebook and Windows 8 (HTML5) and a no-client video calling feature across platforms is in place for Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSFT buys Skype. MSFT integrates Facebook chat in WP7. Facebook brings Skype to chat. This could be video calling in Mango and even Windows 8.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-wrapper\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/2011\/07\/facebook-video-calling-wp7\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow7K6iCw:productID":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[215,812,761,763],"class_list":["post-3533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","tag-facebook","tag-skype","tag-windows-8","tag-wp7"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3533"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3541,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beingmanan.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}