GGoogle chat vs Skype

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 09:43 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> I have long been intrigued wit having Skype-like capabilities for my
> computer. I recently looked at Google Chat which seems to be similar and
> is really easy to install and use (at least on my F14 laptop).
> 
> What am I missing by not using Skype?

Multi-part conferencing (with the paid Skype option), but see Google+
which also supports this. It's not clear if Google Chat is going to
survive.

poc