Tag: VIDEO CHAT

Wi-Fi has been available on planes for sometime now. In fact, on our way to this year's CES, in-flight Wi-Fi ruined what should have been a few hours dedicated to catching up on some reading and getting a little extra shut eye. Instead, Team Switched spent the better part of the six hour flight to Vegas blogging and hanging out in our team chat room...which might have landed us in hot water had ...

While we've come face to face with people from all over the world via ChatRoulette, the face of the person behind this light-speed gawk-fest itself has remained shrouded in mystery -- until now. Meet Andrey Ternovskiy, the 17-year-old whiz kid behind the latest (and perhaps greatest) form of randomized social networking. The New York Times Bits Blog recently sent an inquisitory e-mail to the ...

Remember back when you got your first dial-up connection and the thrill of exploring the new and wild online jungle? It's okay, we can't either. But a new site, ChatRoulette, manages to revive that greenhorn spirit... at the expense of some seriously creepy voyeurism. In a fascinating article for New York Magazine, Sam Anderson documents his own ride through ChatRoulette, a site straight out of ...

In the world of network television, show producers have millions of dollars at their disposal. As such, they can usually swing some high-tech equipment to make sure that when guests appear on video from some other part of the world, they do so with a high-quality video and audio signal. Oprah, despite her millions (billions?), is forgoing all that in favor of Skype, the free online telephone and ...

Gmail is great (when it's working), offering top-notch spam filtering, gigabytes of storage, and a slick user interface all for free. It also offers integrated instant chatting for those who are into such things, and, as of a few weeks ago, text messaging too. Now Gmail is growing again, offering you the ability to chat with voice and video without having to leave the page. You'll need to start ...