Tokbox is a free service that lets you talk with your friends over live video. Here’s how it works: you sign up and they give you a link. When you want to talk with anyone, just give them the link – they click and you chat.

Now out of the many ways that anyone can video chat these days why would you choose Tokbox? There is iChat, Gchat, Skype, etc… They all have video. I was introduced to Tokbox and impressed by Tokbox by my friend Rob Blatt. He was showing me how it works and we did a quick video conference call with 6 people! And the video was clear and the sound wasn’t delayed!

Needless to say I was amazed! Tokbox has a bunch of interesting features and it is a pretty new service so I expect it to grow a lot. One of my main complaints about it is the sketch factor. Early on I did not update my privacy settings and I got a video chat request from someone I did not know who just wanted to chat with me.

I wasn’t really ok with that. But once I updated my privacy settings everything was all good.

Tokbox also has twitter integration so that you can send out a tweet if you are on a public conference call you want people to be able to join in on.

There are a few different things you can embed with Tokbox. You can embed video chat right on your website or blog, or embed a video mail box where people can leave you video messages on Tokbox. So check it out and let me know what you think! You can also add me as a friend on Tokbox here.