TokBox.com: Free video conferencing... and links with social networks

TokBox launched about two years ago and got good coverage on TechCrunch. It has turned out to be a great free (and hassle-free) video conferencing tool. I'm on the phone with clients and candidates all day... hey, it's a people business! It helps a lot when you can see who you are speaking with. So, I'm using it from time to time.

It used to be that you had to have the special video conferencing gear (or now the "Telepresence" gear from folks like Cisco, Polycom, Tandberg and others). The quality of the new HD systems is phenomenal. But for a small business such as ours, I don't need HD.

With TokBox, all you really need is two webcam equipped PC's. I'm also a big fan of Skype... but not everyone is a Skype user. That's what makes TokBox so handy. I can just give people my personalized ToxBox url  (which is www.tokbox.com/TheTreviGroup) when I want to get into a video conference with them and that's it. No installs, no hassles (TokBox is all Flash based), no cost.

And for the social networkers out there... TokBox integrates nicely with all of the key sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc.