Comments on: Google stole sharing idea for Hangouts and YouTube, lawsuit claims

By: Richard Altman

Richard Altman — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:22:01 +0000

so where is this at now, they are in court, they have cause, they’ve made their case, everything has been thought of, very little of ever gets done, so for the few that do, that’s what this is about. the double edge sword of the internet shows that google just looks bad in this light. nothing happens out of the blue, between the meetings, the traffic, this person talking about Google Kirkland, when was it developed there, prove your timeline in relation to cam up. google had this kind of stuff happen in africa where they were muscling in where they shouldn’t have, http://www.technologyreview.com/view/426626/googles-blunder-shows-africa-has-ideas-worth/
now it’s outta NY, with tonnes of witnesses from sxsw, first point of contact was M Mayer, and we know what she’s up to know (congrats on that too) so, someone at google has to account for all this. it’s tech blue balls

By: lionelhutz

lionelhutz — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:58:23 +0000

All you haters who are “tired of infringement” and the “patent lawsuits” obviously never invested your own blood, sweat, tears and boot strapped cash to build a business; only to have it taken from you by someone else. There is a reason every developed economy has patent protection. Nobody is going to invest massive amounts of time and money into an idea if it were legal for anyone else to steal it. If that were possible, there would be businesses who would never do any R&D or create new products (Microsoft comes to mind….) and would just wait for something new and successful to come along, steal it, and sell it at half the price because of their scale. So until you’ve been there, don’t hate the system. It protects the inventors and innovators.

By: Czart

Czart — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:46:04 +0000

Surprise surprise…

By: Skeptical

Skeptical — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:07:11 +0000

Hangouts was developed at Google Kirkland, which is in Kirkland, WA. How was CamUp’s traffic from there?

By: AI

AI — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 06:58:02 +0000

ridiculous patents lawsuits part 23423534

By: hatt3r

hatt3r — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 23:45:08 +0000

google doing something evil again? who would have thought…

By: Kevin Nalts Nalty

Kevin Nalts Nalty — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:45:11 +0000

Reminds me of 2004 when I told Chad Hurley about this great idea for video sharing.

By: esemplastic

esemplastic — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:41:45 +0000

CamUp may be less than unique in the idea. But Google probing their systems in advance of releasing an essentially identical concept pretty much gives Be In a solid foot to stand on here.

Google would because of PR and other details just write the lottery check quietly to purchase CamUp lock stock and barrel to make it vanish. The founders of Be In probably will be happy enough after their initial conversations started at SXSW with that sort of outcome anyhow.

By: Kevin Tyler

Kevin Tyler — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:34:53 +0000

It seems likely that Google Hangouts was under wraps for way longer than the month before they met with CamUp. I think a more plausible explanation is that Google accelerated the rollout of Hangouts after hearing about another company contemplating the same idea. (Recall Google Drive was conceived of before DropBox and it was still only rolled out a couple months ago?)

By: Toby Harriman

Toby Harriman — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:28:22 +0000

Very constructive reply!