Lab Exercise #14 Video Teleconferencing

Google Voice and Video chat

Overall Googles video and voice service is very difficult to work with and very limited in the options and the features that come with it. With google you can only video chat with one person at a time and it is very hard to work with mulitple people through googles chat service. Despite only being able to talk to one person at a time you can still have muliple people involved in the text chat box on google.


Yahoo Voice and Video chat

Yahoo is very much the same as google in its features and ease of use, although chatting with multiple people is easy to do on yahoo you still can only voice and video chat with one person at a time. There is nearly no difference between google and yahoo as far as teleconferencing is concerned.


Skype

Out of all of the different video chat services I checked out skype is by far the easiest and most productive way to chat with different people either for business or leisure purposes. skype not only allows you to chat with mulitple people on video and voice lines but you can also text with each person in your conference. Another thing skype allows you to do is personalize your user profile so it is easier for people to recognize who you are, this makes it much easier for people to locate who they need to speak with on skype. You can also post videos and other different multimedia sources in the chat box for all of your contacts to view. Skype has a feature that allows you to play games between you and everyone else in your conversation and finding contacts is as simple as typing the persons name in the search field and adding them as friends.
Skype is the best service to use if you want to chat with several people at once and make the most out of your conference with others in your business.