The site was launched by Ashod Apakian in November 2007 as a web-based demo of a research application he was working on. The goal was to create the world's fastest
videotelephony site. It gained popularity after a
plugin was developed to provide multi-party videoconferencing for
Adium in August 2008, after being featured on
Digg. The site was also featured on
Chris Pirillo, at which point it gained widespread usage. The website used
Adobe Systems Flash Player to display video and access the user's
webcam. It works across
Windows,
Linux and
Macintosh, along with any web browser supports
Flash 8. == See also ==