Official Gmail Blog: Say hello to Gmail voice and video chat - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008...
Nov 11, 2008
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I've started having a lot of quick 30 second - 2 minute video conversations b/c of this feature. Saves so much typing and waiting. It's actually changed the way I work. Nice job, Sweden & Seattle.
- Keith Coleman
"And in the spirit of open communications, we designed this feature using Internet standards such as XMPP, RTP, and H.264, which means that third-party applications and networks can choose to interoperate with Gmail voice and video chat." Come on libpurple!
- EricaJoy
Awesome! Where was this last week when I wanted to video-conference in to all the election night festivities from China? :)
- Ana
I wish it didn't require installing a plugin though. I'm sure there's a good reason for it but without it working out of the box I doubt I'll ever be able to use it to chat with certain people (my Grandparents use Gmail but I don't think they'd know how to install this).
- Benjamin Golub
@Ben Send them to http://mail.google.com/videoch... and tell them to press the big button?
- EricaJoy
1/2 Skype + 1/2 Tokbox + Google = death to Skype and Tokbox?
- George Lee
Benjamin, you're right. And if you have to install something, why not just make it a standalone program? Like an update to the Google Talk client? My mum and sister both use Google Talk but they've never used the web interface of Gmail because they know how to use Outlook Express already.
- Tony Ruscoe
no linux support yet =(
- Evan Parker
Side-note: When you have Google Update installed as Firefox plugin, then clicking Google's installation button won't trigger a security dialog, but just start the installation.
- Philipp Lenssen
@Evan If libpurple can get this implemented, you could just use Pidgin.
- EricaJoy
A plugin? Reminds me of the original Google video. Why don't you use flash Keith?
- Paul Buchheit
Tony: Updating Google Talk leaves all the Mac users out. Now if I could just get a free VNC client or something that punched through firewalls well on Macs I could install this for my parents now instead of next time I see them.
- Brett Cannon
Brett: If you use the listening VNC viewer, you can have your parents make their VNC server connect to you.
- Gabe
I'm a bit late noticing that you were on friendfeed, but I wanted to say thanks for this feature. My girlfriend and I are on different continents and have been struggling to see each other on skype since she left town. We're now able to talk reliably and see each other, which is pretty awesome! Thanks!
- Andrew