Thursday, July 7, 2011

Facebook Video Chat

Facebook announced a new feature to their site which involved video-calling and group chat in collaboration with Skype. This new feature involved giving current Facebook chat users the ability to video call their friends. They will be rolling out these features automatically over the next few weeks. If you don’t want to wait for these products, you can get it now. http://www.facebook.com/videocalling You can also create an ad-hoc group by adding more than one Facebook friend in the Facebook chat interface.

 

Click on the name of contact you want to chat with and then click on the Video calling icon in the chat window. You will be prompted to download a plugin for your browser. This is only a one-time process, so you will be able to video chat in the future without having to install this plugin again

 

The other feature announced was the ability to find people to chat with easier. Given that you have the available screen space, you can now see a ‘buddy list’ of Facebook friends. This will allow you more easily find the people you want to chat with.

 

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