ooVoo video chat version 1.5 has been released and it includes a new feature that allows you to record a multi-party video conference and post it directly to YouTube.

The New York based video conferencing software company is planning a series of showcase events beginning on February 10th called My ooVoo Day where a number of high-profile bloggers will use ooVoo videoconferencing to interact with their audience live and face-to-face.

Some of the other features of ooVoo include: videoconferencing with as many as six participants, video messaging, text chat, file sharing, click-to-call links for Web sites or social media pages and free voice calls to regular phones in the US and Canada.

ooVoo seems to have taken the best features of some of its most popular desktop videoconferencing and VOIP competitors and packaged them together in a compelling offer. It has the video effects and slick multi-person interface of Apple iChat, the video messaging, video conference recording and click-to-call features that are popular in SightSpeed and the peer-to-peer file sharing and voice calls to the telephone network of Skype.

One of the places where ooVoo is lacking at this point is cross-platform compatibility. Both Skype and SightSpeed work among Macs and PCs. OoVoo is PC only; however, a Mac version is said to be in the works.

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