Google Launches Video Chat for iGoogle

In November 2008, Google added video chat to Gmail, allowing you to video chat with other GmailGmail users after downloading a small plugin. Now Google is extending its video ambitions, launching video chat for the iGoogle homepage.

What’s the advantage of having video chat on your personalized homepage? The main benefit is that you can now speak to friends who don’t use Gmail (although they still require a generic GoogleGoogle account). You’ll also need to download a plugin to make it work.

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  Earlier this year Google added the chat sidebar to iGoogle, which gave you Gmail-style chat in your iGoogle start page. Now they’ve expanded the chat functionality to include video chat right from the main iGoogle interface.
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  To try and make its personalized homepage iGoogle a little stickier, the search giant is allowing video chat directly from site.
  To use it, you have to download a free plug-in…
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