You look forward to see your profile on Facebooks new browser Skype video chat but still waiting for the service?
If so, you can actually get started right now, and as you call your Facebook friends they also are prompted to activate your new service. The process of getting started is actually quite simple, but in my tests I found a small Hiccup that may prove frustrating for some users.
The first thing you need to do is click the Facebook's video calling home page and click the green "get started". This is intended to start a download, enabling video calls on your system. But in my tests with Firefox on Mac OS X was invited not me if any one week, although it is possible I may have missed it.
When I first clicked the button "get started" I waited for several minutes as my Facebook chat contact list popped up with the message "loading ...". I was tired of having to wait so I reloaded the page, click the "get started" button again, and video calls was activated almost immediately.
When I got the video calling will in Firefox, I opened my Facebook page in Chrome, Opera and Safari to see what would happen. Both Chrome and Safari, there were no problems and chat was installed, but it turns out Facebook video chat are not supported in Opera.
After video chat was activated, seemed a pop-up window asking me to pick a friend phoning from the available in my online instant messaging contacts. After you select a friend, window discussion popped up and I was asked to click the icon for a new video camera at the top of the chat window.
When you initiate a call, if your friend doesn't have video calling prompts him to activate the installed service. Facebook gives you two options to start a conversation. You can choose one from your online contacts in Facebook chat, and then press the video button in the discussion. You can click on the "Call" that appears in the upper-right portion of your friend's Facebook profile page when they are online.
That is about it. Facebook's Skype integration is pretty painless to get started, even if your experience may vary, as my colleague David Daw was told.
Facebook's Skype integration cannot have popular group chat function, see Google's Hangouts, the Google +-feature that lets you participate in a video call with up to 10 people. But the video call is likely to be a welcome boost for Facebook users, unless of course you use Opera as your primary browser.
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