A Web start-up company with some of the same backers who helped catapult YouTube to glory wants to do for live video chats what YouTube did for video watching. The company, TokBox, allows people with Webcams and broadband Internet connections to conduct face-to-face chats inside a Web browser. Users can visit its site, www.tokbox.com, or add a TokBox module to their pages on social Web sites like MySpace. Several other services, including AOL’s AIM, Yahoo Messenger and Skype, allow live video chats but require that each party download the software and be online at the same time. On TokBox, if one party is not present, users can send a video mail message of up to five minutes in length that the other party can later retrieve at the site.http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/business/media/15video.html?ex=1350100800&en=59b45c9e60a88aee&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/14/tokbox-gets-some-nytimes-love/
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