| Many a match made in an online video chat room | | Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:07:30 PM by Rose Martins | Online video chat and chat rooms are extremely popular and have sprung up all over the place. 
Most video chat software can be downloaded from the net at no cost, other video chat rooms charge a nominal fee to join. Many online dating sites also offer a live video chat room facility where many a match has been made.
Many chat facilities offer the option of video and voice chat by means of a webcam and microphone.
These online chat services are also usually free of charge.
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| | | Valentine's Day Chat to be Hosted by Matchmaker to the Rich and Famous Samantha Daniels on Paltalk World's Largest ... | | Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 3:12:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | New York, NY (PRWeb) January 31, 2007 -- Paltalk, the largest online video chat community with more than four million active members, today announced Matchmaker to the rich and famous Samantha Daniels will launch a regularly scheduled advice hour with a special chat on Valentine's Day open to the public. A recurring celebrity relationship and romance commentator for Access Hollywood and US Weekly among others, Daniels' chat room will be available on the Paltalk service where users communicate live online through video, voice and text in chat rooms that hold thousands. The special Valentine's Day edition of her chat called "LOVE Samantha Daniels Style" will include live advice given to the "lovelorn" and those preparing for a "big night out" with their sweetheart. .... | |
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| | | Bodelin Sees Eye 2 Eye | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:29:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bodelin Technologies has created a simple but perfectly designed product that will forever change video chatting and make every budding video podcaster look like a pro. See Eye 2 Eye slides over any external webcam or built in laptop webcam and reflects the window of the person you are chatting with onto a two-way mirror (beam splitter) over your webcam. The result is that you look directly into the camera while looking at the person you are chatting with. Add a text document with your script reflected in your See Eye 2 Eye and you have a light and inexpensive teleprompter. No software needed! See Eye 2 Eye also works with professional and consumer video cameras positioned right behind the computer screen. With a See Eye 2 Eye on both ends you can finally chat eye to eye instead of eye to forehead.... | |
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| | | Video Chat with Arianna Huffington | | Posted Saturday, December 09, 2006 1:18:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | Paltalk is an online video chat community with more than four million members, offering a combination of instant messaging, live voice and webcam video. Members use the site to socialize, learn languages, hold group discussions, sing karaoke and more. To celebrate the launch of the newest version of its software on December 6, Paltalk is hosting two days of free celebrity chats. Online publisher Arianna Huffington will be joined by radio shock jock Anthony Cumia (of Opie & Anthony), relationship guru Samantha Daniels, investor Whitney Tilson, gossip columnist Flo Anthony and many others, and viewers will be able to see, hear and send messages to them. The new version of the software that Paltalk is showing off at the launch event features video streaming at near broadcast-level quality, full duplex audio, multiplayer gaming and music.... | |
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| | | Lycos to launch high-speed internet video channel | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:11:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | US internet portal Lycos has announced it will launch a high-speed internet video channel this week, allowing viewers to simultaneously watch and discuss movies over the internet. The service, called Lycos Cinema, is part of Lycos US's plans to rebrand itself as a broadband video channel with a built-in text chat room, giving it a platform on which to develop its online video and social networking profile. Lycos users will be able to watch films and create public...Article continues below .... | |
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| | | AOL launches live video chat, links to Apple | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 7:39:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | America Online on Thursday said it will let users of its instant messenger service communicate over a live video connection for the first time, months after federal regulators lifted limitations on the company. AOL, the world's largest online service and owned by Time Warner Inc., also said it will link its live video chat service to Apple Computer Inc.'s iChat service. The deal expands a May 2002 relationship between the two companies that linked their respective messaging services. More than 35 million active users per month send on average 1.5 billion messages a day over AOL's messenger service, the company said. The Federal Communications Commission last August lifted restrictions on AOL that prevented it from offering advanced messaging services such as live video. The restrictions were placed as a condition in its approval of the 2001 merger of AOL and Time Warner.... | |
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| | | 'LOST' WATCH | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 7:38:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | ABC's "Lost" has inspired legions of fans and chat boards with its intricate mythology. Each Friday, we update you on our latest observations. E-mail yours to ldemarco@plaind.com. (Check www.abc.com for the latest plot developments.) Clues and Easter eggs (and red herrings?): Kate finally made her choice between Sawyer and Jack - sort of - on Wednesday's excellent half-season finale, which dealt with themes of love and self-sacrifice. In flashbacks, we learn that while on the lam she was devoted housewife to a policeman, briefly, but left to save him from her truth. On the island, Kate is forced to ask Jack to operate on Ben to save Sawyer's life. Thinking he won't comply, she and Sawyer declare their love to one another and consummate their relationship.... | |
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| | | Gaming Consoles Go Head-to-Head | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 1:56:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | When Sony launched the PlayStation 2 back in 2000, it audaciously described the console as a comet that would wipe out the dinosaurs and supplant the PC in the home. As we all know, that didn't happen. For years now, gaming consoles have been positioned as the Trojan horses of the living room but never seemed to fully deliver on that promise. Until now. - Click here to visit FOXNews.com's Video Gaming Center. The new generation of devices from Microsoft (MSFT), Nintendo, and Sony (SNE) may finally start giving PC manufacturers a reason to worry, for real this time. These consoles will enter your home as a game machine and then insidiously infiltrate the rest of your life. Even Nintendo's latest edition offers built-in Wi-Fi and the ability to browse the Web — a first for a Nintendo console.... | |
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| | | High School Students to Chat With Space Station Crew | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 7:36:08 AM by Blog57 Team | | To highlight International Educational Week, NASA and the U.S Department of Education will host a live, ultra-long distance call with the crew of the International Space Station at 9:21 a.m. EST Tuesday, Nov. 14 at the U.S. Department of Education, Washington. NASA Assistant Administrator for Education Joyce Winterton, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Ray Simon, and Educator Astronauts Barbara Morgan and Ricky Arnold, will give remarks at 9 a.m. Morgan is the first educator astronaut and will travel to space next year on shuttle mission STS-118. Her mission will continue assembly of the station and include educational aspects to spark the imagination, dreams and curiosity of the next generation of explorers. Media that attend the event must be in place by 9 a.m. Morgan, Arnold and Simon will be available for media interviews immediately following the call.... | |
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| | | Sox still getting plenty of attention | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:19:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | BOSTON - When the Boston Red Sox sent an e-mail to their media Sunday advising that manager Terry Francona and newly appointed pitching coach John Farrell would be available for an informal sit-down interview the next day, most assumed that a few beat writers might show for a brief chit-chat.Instead, the New England media showed out in full force, including half a dozen TV cameras and accompanying on-air talent.That's the draw that the Red Sox have. If only they had something to say.Farrell, 44, who comes from the Cleveland Indians, where he was director of player development for six years, had already spoken to the media on a conference call shortly after his mid-October appointment. He reiterated that he has been and will continue to study his new pitchers via video and scouting reports, and that he has been endeavoring to contact all of those who'll probably be in spring training.He was in Boston to check in with the front office and Francona, and to meet with Manny Delcarmen and Craig Hansen.... | |
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| | | Youth hockey coach/teacher arrested on Internet sex charge | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:28:31 AM by Blog57 Team | | LIVONIA -- A middle school teacher and youth hockey coach was charged today with attempting to solicit a 13-year-old boy in an online chat room. Ryan Thomas Fawkes, 31, of Livonia, was arrested at his home by Livonia Police on warrants issued by state Attorney General Mike Cox that allege he sent lewd video images of himself over the Internet to a police officer posing as a boy. Fawkes is a seventh grade science teacher at Columbus Middle School in Detroit and is head coach of a Plymouth-Canton Hockey Association midget-level travel hockey team, according to the attorney general's office. Fawkes is accused of communicating with the undercover officer on a computer on Oct. 3 and Oct. 26. Fawkes allegedly solicited the officer for sexual activity, sent lewd webcam video images of himself, and also sent other pornographic images.... | |
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