ICQ (I seek you): ICQ is an online communication program the enables people to chat, send e-mails, and transfer files to each other. It allows you to create a list of your friends, family, and other contacts. It also sends you a notifications whenever any of your friends and contacts appear online. To conduct an ICQ chat, you are required to download and install that ICQ software. While downloading ICQ, you are assinged a unique ICQ number. If you want to search an ICQ supply both the person's name and ICQ number.

Web-Based Chat: As the name suggests, a web-based chat is conducted on a web-browser and generally provided by webmall provider such as google, facebook, etc.

VIDEO CONFERENCING


When you cannot meet in person, video conferencing is the best option to have face-to-face interaction in real time.

A video conference can be considered as a phone call with pictures that allows multiple people, sitting at geographically different locations to communicate with each other by exchanging video and audio at the same time.

It involves the use of a camera known as a webcam and a microphone at the end of each participant to capture video and audio data in real time. Images and sounds are transmitted through the Internet and delivered to other participants. These days it is also possible to conduct a video conference using smartphones and tablets. A video conference can be point-to-point where two individuals are engaged in a conversation or it can be multipont that involvs there or more participants.

Video conferencing is mainly used for virtual meetings among a group of people to discuss poltical, bussiness, medical, or social affairs. Some of the most popular areas of application of video conferencing are journalism, media, education tourism, and in the legal profession, Many a time, we see on the television that a program host is interviewing several participants sitting in different cites and countries. It is possible only with the technology used in video conferencing.
Popular video confercing applications include: Skype, Adobe connect, Oovoo, Yugma, Ekiga IMO.

NOTE:
When a video conference is held for informal purposes, it is called as videocall and videochat.


ADVANTAGES OF VIDEO CONFERENCING

  • It has become easier conduct corporate meetings between branches of a company that are situated far away. People can work together and share ideas.
  • It is more economical of communication as companies can save on travel and hotel costs.
  • The meeting can be organised on short notice as people can easily participate from distant locations.
  • video conferencing can increases bussiness productivity.People can readily address problems and facilitate corporation decisions within the company.
  • Students present at different locations can attend lectures and training through video conferencing.


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