GMail Breaks Audio-Visual Barrier
Yesterday evening around 8:00 PM (EST), I saw my friend Avadhoot’s gmail status showing 
. I wondered what is this new thing??? Egzactly @ that moment, our Shashi pinged me and asked, did you check Gmail’s video and voice chat. I Googled it immediately and installed Gmail’s Video-Voice chat feature and started enjoying it!!! 
All these days, whenever I wanted to video chat, I had to login into yahoo! or skype; but now I can do that in Gmail. When I tried I found, it is easy to install and use, with high quality audio and video. To try this new feature you just need to
1 . Download the plug-in from http://mail.google.com/videochat
2. Install it
3. Restart the browser
4. Logon to your Gmail
5. Choose one of your friends
6. Click on “Video & more” option from the left bottom of the chat window
7. To view larger video you can either click on pop-out icon 
or view full screen icon 
Have a look @ all these things in action in Google’s official video right below
Google says, they have just started to roll out Gmail Voice and video chat for both PCs and Mac and no need to worry if you don’t see it right away as it could take a day or so for this new feature to available in all Gmail and Google accounts.
Following are some of the things that I came across while using this new feature,
1. You can’t video chat with more than one person at a time – Yahoo! has it.
2. No call conferencing – Skype rocks here!!!
3. Gmail says, “Even if your friend doesn’t have a video camera, you can still make a voice call or a 1-way video call.” I wasn’t able to make 1-way video chat.
I am sure Google will come up with all these features soon and after God, the next thing will be Google in this world. 
S.H.A.A.N.Y.A
November 12th, 2008 at 9:22 am
truly an awesome feature shaani….
Excellent update from u…
thnx a lot buddy….
Appu
November 12th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
shaanya.. becoming a pro blogger .. too fast !! gr8 going .. nice title ..