Free Video Calls? - Try ooVoo!

I've waited to write about ooVoo until they made it available for the Mac. Now you can download the (beta) software here.

ooVoo???

ooVoo is (another) free web video service that allows you to communicate face to face over the internet with people all over the world.












You can connect with up to six friends, family, and colleagues at any time, through high quality video and audio. Organize a family get-together, share breaking news, or heckle your friends during your favorite sporting event.

Here are the features on ooVoo that make life easier and more fun:

Video calling:

* See, hear and speak with up to 6 people.
* Call Friends who don't have ooVoo can video call you from their Web browser.
* Embed a video chat in any website, blog or social network.
* Make video calls in high resolution
* Record your session to create and share instant memories.
* Send a video greeting to multiple people at once.
* Customize your video calls and messages with fun effects.

You can also:

* Call a mobile or landline AS A PHONE.
* Text chat with up to 6 friends at once.
* Send files up to 25 MB each.
* Change the size of a video call window.
* Find people you know or find new friends on ooVoo.
* Bring your blog or MySpace page to life with an ooVoo link.
* Control who can see or contact you.

IMPORTANT THESE DAYS: Will save you a lot of time and travel expenses too!

Pop-up Video Is So Yesterday

Confession - no, not about pop-ups, pop-unders, pop-anything. I have another blog, exactly like this, at MakeiTV.com. I use it to learn the capabilities of blogs and blogging software to create video blogs. (vlogs for you, acronymistas).

MakeiTV.com is built with WordPress, a very innovative, beautifully designed, and modular blogging software from, you guessed, WordPress.org. I installed an inline Flash video plugin to see if it can consistently deliver flash videos. Why Flash? Because it is the de facto video format on the web. If it works, we'll be well on our way to producing a real video blog. Obviously, I have not been able to make this work on Blogger as yet.

The song video you should see there was written and sung by our favorite author-artist, June Marshall. It's part of her album, "Booby Trapped: Men Beware the Dirty Seven Sisters!" Being an equal opportunity gender-basher, she also made another album, "The Dirty Seven: Ladies Beware!" about the kind of men women should avoid. We'll feature a song video from that album too, hopefully soon. Ouch!!!

P.S. You can get the best deal on her albums, books, and ebooks from Newmedia Publishing. Or download her songs from iTunes, AOL Music, MSN Music, Yahoo Music and a host of other sites.