While I was writing about the new wave of personal video calling companies around the world, I heard from one right here in Boston, SnapYap. It joins Userplane and Tokbox as a free, no-download service based on Flash.
The product is probably the simplest I have seen yet. You don't even need to sign up to call someone, just enter their URL in your browser, e.g. http://www.snapyap.com/call/cherot and you can have a video call. They also provide a widget you can embed on your own site if you want to receive calls.
I called "John" from the company and was impressed with the quality of the audio and video - better than I remembered from my experiences with Flash. According to John, SnapYap is just one of several projects the six-person company is working on from it offices on Termont Street. It's written in ActionScript 2 (my sympathies to them) but they have an updated version coming out soon. I look forward to trying it out.
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