New to Tokbox? Adding IM (Instant Messaging) Accounts to Tokbox

Originally uploaded by dbillian

You’ve heard by now that Tokbox is the best way to have video chats and calls with your IM contacts. Problem: You don’t know how to get started adding your contacts from your IM services. Well, I’m here to help…

If you would like to add your IM contacts, simply go to the ‘Find Friends’ option you will see on your contact list. You would then want to click on the link for ‘Add IM Accounts’, which will then open up a window showing all of the IM services you can add as contacts.

Services currently supported:
-AOL AIM
-Yahoo Messenger
-Google GTalk (This does not add with GTalk working through Google Apps.)
-MSN Messenger

Adding the account(s):
If you want to add AOL AIM, for example, you would want to click on the icon for AIM (the little running guy) & then enter in the user name and password you use to access your AIM account. A few seconds (or a little more later) you should see these contacts appear in your Tokbox contact list.

What can you do once you’ve added these contacts?
-Instant Message them from the Tokbox site
-Start a video call or video chat with them

What can’t you do?
-Video mail (video mail requires a destination email address as well, something that IM alone doesn’t provide). You can, however, add friends by email address as well!

Fun fact:
Did you know that Tokbox powers the video chat on Meebo and Digsby?

Questions? Send a video mail to damon@tokbox.com.

Filed under: New to Tokbox, Instant Messaging/Chat, Tokbox, Video Conferencing, Video Calling and Video Chat by damon