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This clip covers a video discussion tool known as Tokbox. I’ve been meaning to post a walk through for this service for some time but the fates have conspired to keep me at bay until now. Happily I managed to complete it earlier today.

From their About Page:

“Tokbox is a free service that lets you talk with your friends over live video. Here’s how it works: you sign up and we give you a link. When you want to talk with anyone, just give them the link – they click and you chat.”

As you may know, I’m a big advocate of online video as a means of communication – and synchronous communication in particular – and Tokbox implements this really nicely. It supports several different communication types including:

• Synchronous multi-user video chat
• Community asynchronous video discussion
• Embeddable multi-user web conference space
• Concurrent streaming of YouTube clips or Slideshare presentations

I go into each of the above features in more detail in the walk through, so I’ll just leave it at that for now.

If you’re interested in seeing and/or interacting with an embedded instance of Tokbox I have one set-up on this blog on the Video Chat page. I’m quite interested in using this tool more frequently, so if you’d like to take the tool for a spin please let me know. See the About Page on this blog for my contact details.