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Video chat comes to your iGoogle homepage

by Jay Hathaway on August 23, 2009 at 01:00 PM

Google has offered video chat between Google Talk contacts inside Gmail for some time now. It's a great feature, but it doesn't do you much good if you want to chat with friends who have Google accounts, but don't use Gmail. Problem solved, though, because video chat is now available on your iGoogle page.

Setting up video chat isn't very difficult. You just have to download the video chat plugin, which you've already installed if you've been using the feature in Gmail. Once it's installed, you can video chat with any contact with a green camera icon next to their name. Either open a regular text chat and click on actions, or hover your mouse over a contact on your list and go to "video and more."

Tags: google, homepage, igoogle, video, video-chat

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NickAug 23rd 2009 3:10PM

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Audio/video capture should be a native HTML5.0 feature imo.

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rajaramAug 23rd 2009 5:46PM

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These features are already available in google's social networking site orkut for almost a year.....you can do the chat with your friends using google talk when you log on to your orkut......a green light will show near to the name of your friends who are online....you just need to click the green light to chat with them....(i think its time for you to check orkut again)

i think as orkut is not a big success than facebook and myspace,google is now trying to make igoogle as their new social networking site....soon you can see music services like ilike and games in igoogle...

please tell me your opinion in comments....

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