RealNetworks founder starts Facebook video chat service

The founder of RealNetworks has launched a new social video service that connects with Facebook and lets users chat with multiple friends straightway.

Rob Glaser, who founded RealNetworks in 1994 afterwards beginning his career at  Microsoft, has teamed with fellow Microsoft and RealNetworks veteran Rob Williams to found SocialEyes, a video service that presented at IDG's DEMO Spring 2011 conference Monday in Palm Desert, Calif.

"SocialEyes Groups connects people based on specific topics. Users can join or start as many groups as they like so they can easily connect to like-minded individuals around common interests, hobbies, Facebook networks, families or anything else," the company says.

Glaser is serving as chairman of SocialEyes, and from 1994 until 2010 was the CEO of RealNetworks, which created such technologies as RealPlayer and RealVideo. Glaser remains chairman of RealNetworks.