Google to replace Skype?!?

... Well perhaps not entirely, but Google has done it again! They've recently (yesterday?) introduced video conferencing to Google Talk, which is accesible from within the Gmail interface (or webApp in Chrome)!!!  While this doesn't match Skype in terms of VoIP to contact non-internet based communication methods, but it certainly makes video conferencing easy and accessible to Gmail users(/addicts) like me!!!

My initial experience with the app was one-sided (sending video, not receiving), but the receiver informs me the video stream was totally smooth!!! I didn't test the audio stream, but generally video is the bandwidth-limited component...

(In all fairness it should be noted that Apple Talk has had this feature for quite awhile; but then Mac's are notorious for handling AV apps better than PC's, web-based or not...)