Google Hangouts launched from Google+
Google Hangouts, which launched in 2013 as a standalone product, originated as a feature built into Google+.
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Trivia Answers: Google's Social Network Graveyard
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Trivia resolution time. Ellis adjudicates his question: Dodgeball, Picasa Web, OpenSocial, and Google Wave don't count under his rules, but Google Buzz does after the hosts push back. Final answer: three — Orkut, Google Buzz, and Google Friend Connect — with Orkut the fascinating outlier that only succeeded in Brazil. David, who guessed three, wins the point and pulls ahead to 30 in the running tally. The bonus question about which Google+ feature became a standalone product in 2013 stumps almost everyone: it's Google Hangouts, which Andrew correctly identifies. The hosts reminisce about Hangouts' many deaths and resurrections as a unified messaging app, mourning the superior Allo that got killed while the inferior Duo survived.
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