vSkype has a video plugin for skype. Free download, no spyware. I want to try it. If you’ve got it running, skype me (or is it vskype me). My id is darugar .

I’m almost completely uninterested in the video aspect of it; I’ve never found video conferencing all that compelling. Most of the conference calls I do are for work, and I have no desire to see the lifeless, bored look of the other participants any more than I want them to see me scruffy and unshaven in my tattered T-shirt.

I’m very intereseted in the document/presentation sharing aspects, however. If you’ve done as much Webex as I have, you’d understand why. Any technology that gets more people to share documents easily is excellent.

As an aside, the only time video phone was fun was when I called my cousin in Iran. It was 3am there, and he was understandably not very presentable in his tanktop. I called my grandmother over to see him talking to us from all the way on the other side of the world, and her first reaction was: “my god, he’s so hairy! he looks like a monster!”

I laughed my head off and relayed the message to him. The freeze-frame effect of the low bandwidth connection as he ran off-screen and returned with a long sleeve shirt was priceless.