As Facebook announced on Wednesday that its subscribers will be able to launch video chats from its site using Skype technology, one sentence — written by Philip Su, an engineer on Facebook’s video calling team — stood out in particular. “Video chat has been around for years now, but it’s still not an everyday activity for most people,” Su wrote. Video chat certainly has been around for quite a while, and video chat services over the Internet and for mobile-to-mobile abound. Even Google has offered free video chat over Gmail, iGoogle and Orkut for some time.
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Time for Video Chat's Big Close-up?
Posted by: Richard Adhikari July 8, 2011 05:00 AMAs Facebook announced on Wednesday that its subscribers will be able to launch video chats from its site using Skype technology, one sentence — written by Philip Su, an engineer on Facebook’s video calling team — stood out in particular. “Video chat has been around for years now, but it’s still not an everyday activity for most people,” Su wrote. Video chat certainly has been around for quite a while, and video chat services over the Internet and for mobile-to-mobile abound. Even Google has offered free video chat over Gmail, iGoogle and Orkut for some time.