Google+ Hangouts May Have Gotten Good Enough to Lure Facebookers

The article is confusing. Why does it mention Facebook right in the headline? Hangouts looks like a replacement for Skype and real life. I can only imagine an effect on Facebook if G+ lures <i>many</i> people into moving their personal face-to-face social time online.<p>That said, Skype needs competition, so I don't mind...

I'm not sure about Facebookers, but as someone who was about to sign up for a (fairly expensive) Webinar package, it has at least given me pause for thought.

Hangouts has lured most of my team to Google +, at least for quick stand-up type meetings. I have two guys who have Google Apps accounts and can't yet use Google + for whatever oddball reason that Google hasn't fixed that.

strange that the hangouts api doesn't support simple message broadcasting. instead it maintains a shared state object. anyone know why? you could hack message broadcasting on top of the state object but that seems awkward.