I tried out the new Facebook Video chat.  It worked great — there was a small download/install, but after that, it was click-and-go.

I’m really wondering what Skype gets out of this.  Facebook’s chat is not integrated with Skype at all, and you only briefly see a Skype logo when the video chat starts.  How is Skype worth N billion when video chat is now a Facebook feature?  I know Skype has some good technology (esp. with firewall traversal), but how hard is it this days to implement robust video chat?

UPDATE:  Skype has a nice blog post on how the integration works.

Finally, I really wish Facebook would invest more in their mobile apps:  getting them current with video calling, and rolling out an iPad app (please!).

When Facebook brings multi-user video chat to the iPad, it’s “game over”!