Relaxation shot Skype and Google Hangouts 2016 product roadmap, it revealed today. The biggest change to: seamlessly to a text chat to a voice or video chat will begin testing "soon" capability. This built on the slack January 2015 acquisition of Screenhero, when it says, these features will eventually be released.
Slack when it means voice chat will come "soon" be so cheeky. Today, the relaxation function call launched on the desktop. ]
Customer conference in San Francisco, the company outlined its plan to do to stay ahead of competitors chat workplace. It already has 2.3 million active users, from 2,000,012 month contract, want to give them more choices, productive, cooperative and transparent.
While this may sound very low DAU statistics, it is a huge business. Taking into account the time difference to see 320 million minutes every weekday effective use of time, which broke the track about 140 minutes per user per week use.
Relaxation Underwood, vice president of products in April told me on the desktop voice chat will be the first one, then the company will focus on making all its equipment and applications work. The film will have to wait until later. Underwood pointed out, you can already make through Skype integration slack voice calls. But with its own characteristics, she said the use case would be "If I DMing someone in the slack, we want to have a quick switch to a voice conversation, it solved the problem."
Slack make a full plan of what you see is what you get message formatting tools, so you can make sure that the case of text just right, a colleague to copy and paste out of the way. Slack will improve the search operators to find files and other content for non-power users easier.
Shared channel will become slack through a greater role. They can help you in large companies across the isolated team communication. Eventually, Slack said, it also gives hope to the outside world as the organization and marketing agencies and technology providers docking. Slack also improved billing system so that large groups can get started quickly.
To make it easier for developers to build stronger experience over its platform, the time difference is also building its search, learning and intelligence (SLI) sectors. In addition to the roadmap, the meeting stressed that the team had a relaxed, like NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, charity, and medical researchers who use Slack keep in touch.
Underwood, who was promoted to vice president of product slacking off in January, said the opening day just to tell you what she plans to build Slack not secretive. "We want to be truly open and transparent, as we look forward to your feedback, said:" explains.
Underwood second problem is to take from the crowd ... although rapidly evolved ask participants characterized their dreams will never get built notice.
Voice and video chat upcoming release allows noisy office, but it will slack more comprehensive communications solutions, instead of inserting a tool kit and other products. This may convince businesses is worth paying the difference.
Since the focus of the time difference do a search, it is easy to imagine that a few years down the line, relaxation can use speech recognition to create transcripts of voice or video conferences.
Developers moat
Addition to its own products, promote family relaxation third-party applications, integration and robots. While others may be able to replicate its function, they will not be able to replicate its community, attracted to the market leader in network effect. "Last December, he announced that Slack had 20,000 active users 570 000 paid seats. It uses the momentum to get the investment it A-list investors compilation $ 800,000 slack fund its developer ecosystem.
If Slack strategy pans out, it can pull away from the pack and to consolidate itself as the next major content companies. Because everyone needs to communicate, the difference may become ubiquitous enough, as a social center and identity layer for the other enterprise applications.
