{"id":5812,"date":"2017-03-10T08:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T22:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=5812"},"modified":"2017-03-10T08:30:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T22:30:38","slug":"look-out-slack-now-google-is-after-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/look-out-slack-now-google-is-after-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Look out Slack now Google is after you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/27131004\/d_inscreen_01_room_2x.png.png.0.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Hangouts is turning into a group chat system that looks a hell of a lot like Slack. Like Microsoft, Google is launching a Slackalike \u2014 and like Microsoft, it\u2019s betting that deep integration with the rest of its office suite is going to be catnip for IT managers and cost-conscious CFOs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think they have to worry just yet, Hangouts is still a mess, but it certainly adds a little more pressure with now both Microsoft <em>and<\/em> Google launching competitors in the same space.<\/p>\n<p>Ironic considering Google Wave, which was essentially\u00a0Slack, pre-dated all of this 7+ years ago.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/3\/9\/14864552\/google-hangouts-chat-update-announced-slack-group-messaging-video\">Google Hangouts is getting a major overhaul to take on Slack &#8211; The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8230;Hangouts is turning into a group chat system that looks a hell of a lot like Slack. Like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}