Free Video Chat by Gmail

Guys Internet giant google has taken one more initiative to compete againt its
toughest competetors microsoft and yahoo.Google has enabled video chat to gmail.

All you need to do is you need to have a webcam and a small web browser plugin to start video chatting. And listen with out web cam you can also have a voice chat.

"Google is offering browser-based voice and video chat as a natural extension to webmail and instant messaging, allowing people to choose how they want to communicate at each moment -- by e-mail, instant message, voice or video," states the company.

steps for getting started:
Open a gmail chat window.
Click on Options menu
choose Add voice/video chat

When you re-open Gmail, you'll notice your 'Options' link in your chat window has changed to 'Video & more'.

You can pop out the video and change its size and position, or switch to full screen.

Gmail voice and video chat is being rolled out over the next day or so on PCs and on Macs. Google Apps customers get this service as well, at no extra charge, and can voice or video chat with any other Gmail or Apps users.

To use voice and video chat, your PC must have Windows XP or a more recent version, or an Intel-Based Mac with Mac OS X v10.4 or later. It works in browsers that support the latest version of Gmail (Google Chrome, Firefox 2.0+, Internet Explorer 7.0 and Safari 3.0).