Want to host a party with friends right on Facebook? Video chat company ooVoo has rolled out its service to the social networking site, allowing up to 12 friends to chat face-to-face at once.
The company also announced upgrades to its application for iPhone, Android, PC and the web users. The Facebook integration makes the service similar to Google Hangouts, which allows users to video chat in groups of 10 on the search engine giant?s social network Google+.
On the iPad, ooVoo doesn?t just support 12-way calls but also four-way HD video chats ? an industry first.
Although the 12-way video chat functionality wasn?t announced until today, ooVoo quietly rolled it out on Facebook over the past few months. Since then, nearly 350,000 people have been using the service.
?We never announced that the product was available in beta form on Facebook, but our users found it anyway ? this just reinforces how much of a need and desire to connect with others through social chat,? ooVoo CEO Yuval Baharav told Mashable.
The integration between platforms is seamless. Even if a friend doesn?t have the ooVoo application, you can send them the web call link to start to the session.
The product news is the company?s first major milestone for ooVoo, which boasts more than 46 million users ? up from 19 million in 2010. Although it still trails behind mainstay competitors Skype and iChat, the company has set its sights on further expansion.
?We will be releasing more innovative features in the upcoming months that will allow our users to be even more social online,? Baharav said. ?We want ooVoo to be a communications platform that truly becomes a big part of our users? social lives.?
The news comes just a few weeks after a Pew Research Center?s Internet & American Life Project study found that nearly 40% of Teens Video Chat With Their Friends 40% of all Internet users ages 12 to 17 participate in video chats. Both teen boys and girls enjoy connecting with friends on the Internet to catch up, watch TV together and even do homework.
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