Thursday, 1 September 2016

Facebook Messenger adds live video to augment your messages

A good rule of thumb in software these days is that any social product without a video feature is going to get one eventually. Another good rule of thumb is that any feature developed by Snapchat is coming soon to a Facebook product near you. Enter "instant video," a twist on Snapchat's video calling feature that lets you share a live stream from inside a traditional text chat.

Facebook Messenger has had a FaceTime-like video chat option since May 2015. But the company wants to encourage even more video usage of its platform, and so today it's introducing a lightweight add-on to your text messages that lets you share video from a window inside the chat app. "Video calling is still relatively new, and until recently, reserved for special...

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