Facebook Rooms

Apreche

Facebook has a new app called "Rooms."

http://www.rooms.me/

Supposedly it requires no actual Facebook account. On paper this seems like if you got a lot of buy-in from your friends, this could replace a lot of other things like forums, delicious, pinterest, group.me/beluga, etc.

Coldguy

No android option at the moment, could be another instragram issue when they are added in.

sK0pe

The only draw card is that it doesn't need a Facebook account.
The downside is that the functionality is restricted to iOS.
It seems a bit like Google+ Communities?

Apreche

Apreche

So after using it for all of 10 minutes, I actually like it a lot. The best feature is having a different username in each room.

Rochelle

Ahh, great for conventions, however Hangouts worked fine for us at Prime.

Andrew

Can't seem to download it off the appstore, down already?

Apreche

Here is the app store link:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rooms-create-something-together/id924643029

Andrew

"The item you tried to buy is no longer available"

Pegu

My first impression was that it's a more generalized version of slack.com

Apreche

Pegu said:

My first impression was that it's a more generalized version of slack.com

Sort of. I use Slack at work, and so do many people I know. I really wish they would make a public version. Maybe rooms is beating them to market?