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"CamUp sues Google over Hangouts, YouTube integration"
Reply to: by Jeremy Lown
This is the actual comment from Hangouts ‘creator’ Chee Chew "So we hung out and chatted really quickly and they asked me how long it would take for me to prototype it.
So I said, it would take about and hour. We already had the code and it was just a matter of gluing it together, so Sergey said ‘Go ahead and do it, do it right now.’
Reply to: by Jeremy Lown
This is the actual comment from Hangouts ‘creator’ Chee Chew "So we hung out and chatted really quickly and they asked me how long it would take for me to prototype it.
So I said, it would take about and hour. We already had the code and it was just a matter of gluing it together, so Sergey said ‘Go ahead and do it, do it right now.’
2 months time was more than enough IMO.
source: http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/03/31/hangouts-how-an-internal-video-link-between-seattle-and-stockholm-became-an-awesome-google-feature/