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Google+ Hangouts Update Brings New Screensharing Feature And Larger Video

By Julian Horsey on Thursday 12th January 2012 2:20 pm in Technology News

Google has rolled out a new update this week to its Google+ Hangouts feature. Bring with it new “screensharing” features that enable you to share what’s on your computer screen with everyone in the hangout.

Together with enlarged video images, putting the emphasis on the live video itself by optimising white space and other screen elements, says Google.

Google Hangouts update

Google’s Christopher Johnson explains a little more about their new Google+ Hangouts update:

“When we launched Hangouts with Extras last September, we wanted to test new features and get feedback from users. We’ve learned a lot over the past few months, and today we’re rolling out a new Hangouts look and feel that incorporates some of the “extras,” and better reflects Google’s overall design,”

Source: Google

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Norman Speight

I’ve yet to meet anyone who likes the ‘new look’ google mail. It also seems that this will be forced on users at some time in the future as the people who wrote this seem to like it, therefore users simply will not have a choice. I do know that – alledgedly – one can temporarily revert to the old view, but that will not be a choice for much longer. This kind of arrogance by those who insist on writing changes to that which is familiar is well-known to people like me who have been in the Computer business for a long time (45 years in my case). It is long passed the time when this industry should have been culled of the “I know what is best for you and you will have it whether you like it or not” culture.
I’ve tried to tell Google that familiarity is a human condition central to our existence and social interaction, but of course, they just ignore that which contradicts their entrenched fascistic position. Sad in a business which has much to commend it.
Even animals find unfamiliarity disconcerting, not the animals in the Google zoo however.
normanspeight@onetel.com