Google Adds Video Chat to Gmail

Google Video ChatGoogle has (finally?) added video and voice chat capa­bil­i­ties to their gmail ser­vice. To enable the ser­vice, just visit this site and down­load and install the plu­gin. You’ll have to quit your browser once it’s down­loaded before you can install it — but don’t worry, it will prompt you if you acci­dently leave Fire­fox open.

Then, it’s just a mat­ter of wait­ing for one of your con­tacts to have installed it them­selves so you can try it out!

You can tell one of your con­tacts has the video plu­gin installed because they’ll have a lit­tle video cam­era icon by their name in your con­tact list like this:

Google Video Chat iCon

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2 Responses to Google Adds Video Chat to Gmail

  1. Yung Staudinger December 15, 2010 at 10:45 pm #

    I really love the theme on your site, I have a Word­Press blog as well, and I would really like to use this theme. Is it a free style, or is it custom?

  2. iChris December 15, 2010 at 11:40 pm #

    Hi Yung — you’re likely a spam­mer since that’s all I get for com­ments here but on the off chance you’re not, the theme is Can­vas by WooThemes and it’s what I use to start a lot of blogs with. Go check it out and grab your­self a copy — it’s awe­some.

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