Hype?

Hype? - no. I certainly don't want to Skhype anything or anybody, but jingle is a nice xmpp (jabber) specification for simple VoIP. I have been testing this for a long time with various clients and finally came to the conclusion: it is really usable. Empathy (standard in Ubuntu), Psi (also free & cross platform) and the Google Talk client (closed Windows only) work together! These are only three big players that offer free VoIP on the major operating systems - and they are easy to use! (Nothing you can say about setting up a SIP client) Now let's see when video is going to follow...