I've messed around with over 30 of these webcam chat gizmo's. The best one I've found so far is eyeballchat. www.eyeballchat.com

>Hi does anybody out there us a webcam to IM with anybody else.
>I have an exchange student here for a year and she wants to use the webcam to talk to family and friends. Is there an app that is especially designed for that?? MS Netmeeting works sometimes but most of the time it does not.