Now Talk Gmail

From viewing videos on YouTube to screening family events, people love being able to watch something exactly as it happened. And as webcams have become popular, more and more of us are realizing that video is the next best thing to an in-person conversation. Today we're introducing Gmail voice and video chat, which lets you have free voice and video conversations right from within Gmail.

Video chatting from Gmail is as easy as sending an instant message. With our team spread out across Google offices in Sweden and the U.S., it's been really handy in helping us work together. Just click on the new "Video & more" menu in a Gmail chat window and select "Start video chat" or "Start voice chat." You can switch to a full screen view or pop out the chat window and change the size and positioning as you wish. Of course, not everyone has a webcam, but even if you don't, you can still have voice conversations alongside your email and regular chat. Take a look at this short video to see more:



Gmail voice and video chat will be rolled out globally over the next day or so for Macs and PCs. The first time you use this feature, you'll be prompted to download and install a small plugin. To get started, visit http://www.gmail.com/videochat or click on the "Options" menu in a Gmail chat window and choose "Add voice/video chat." Find out more on Gmail Blog.

[via googleblog]

Cyber Terrorisim will be Dead

With reference to cyber terrorism, American officials can have pretty strong reactions. For example on one occasion Kevin Poulsen was being compared to Osama bin Laden and Pablo Escobar. But when it comes to cyber terror paranoia, the U.S. has nothing on Pakistan. Though recently the President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari signed a law (that was put forward an year ago) making cyber terror a crime, the punishment for which is death. The punishment will go through if the cyber crime causes death of any person, as the law states. An extract from the law:

"…any person, group or organization who, with terroristic intent utilizes, accesses or causes to be accessed a computer or computer network or electronic system or electronic device or by any available means, and thereby knowingly engages in or attempts to engage in a terroristic act."

[via startupmeme]

LinkedIn Launches Events, Now Competes with UpComing.org and Eventful

LinkedIn has now launched Events, a way for people to create, recommend, and subscribe to events. In addition to this users could also search sophisticated information about who else would be attended the events and receive updates about the events via an update feed for each event. And in little time, thousands of events have already been posted to the network, talk about right tools for the right people

Swaptree: Trade online with others

Swaptree an online community of users build specifically to let its members trade with each other. We aren’t talking about some billion dollar online business but simple trading of items that might be useless for you now but can mean a lot to others. The service lets you trade games, DVDs, books with others in exchange of items you might want to have and others are willing to get in the deal. Users simply need to hit in the ISBN or the UPC code for items they need to trade, Swaptree then let you print out relevant details right from your browser.

So if you have some old game you need to trade for some book then its the right place for you.