My family and I are spread throughout the world. At first we used Skype to talk, but in recent versions they decided to remove the option to video chat with more than one person (unless you want to pay for the plus version) so we started looking into some other options, since most of us have Android devices we figured it would be easy enough to try out hangouts and so far they have worked great, people can connect from their browser or from their Android device and you get decent audio and video for at least four people in different parts of the world. I am a big fan.
Other than that I cannot say I use my G+ account much, though, however, I would say I use it as much as my FB account.
no browser wars, no open Web standards, no Mozilla, no Firefox. How might the Web — and the world — have looked today if that had happened?"
Hari Seldon would disagree. Even without Netscape, the web would have eventually realized that the healthier state was open standards and the movement would have started, maybe it would have taken more time, but sooner or later someone would have thought: "Know what? Things would be a lot better around here if instead of one big company changing the way things work whenever it wants we just decided on something and stuck with it."
Except for, you know, the Real Academia one: http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=lumia
But as a Spanish speaker I was just as surprised to find out as you are so I guess this is used in a different country than either of us live in.
Don't panic.