As I wrote in today's Technology section, internet telephony ubermeisters Skype have publicly unveiled a beta of their 2.0 client - which includes video calling.
I went to the company's London offices last week and played with the new version last week and was pretty impressed: clean interface, good features and the video (connected over an unfortunately intermittent Wi-Fi network) was reasonably sharp.
Still, though, I'm sceptical of video calling as a concept. We've seen it tried so many times before, that I wonder whether there will ever be anything more than a tiny minority of users who are interested in it.
However, as an added feature to a very popular piece of free software, it's hard to see what the harm is. Definitely one to watch - especially if it becomes possible to make video calls to 3G mobile handsets...
