The good thing about PlusRoulette is that since everybody needs to sign in with their Google Plus account that displays your actual name, a lot of issues that ChatRoulette faces won’t be present here. It is also a great tool if you want to use a hangout with a large group of people that are not added to your Google Plus network since you can just email them the URL of your PlusRoulette session.

Features:

• Create a random video chat session or join existing ones.
• Use Google Plus’ HangOut feature as the base technology.
• Displays existing public Hangouts that you can join.
• No registration required.

Visit PlusRoulette @ http://www.plusroulette.com/hangouts [Via TechCrunch]

AV by AIM is a simple and free to use web service that is currently in beta. The site lets you easily initiate video conversations with other friends. A total of 4 people can participate in a single video conversation. Audio is also supported and your friends can converse with you just like in a video conference.

All you have to do to set up AV by AIM is visit it, allow it access to your webcam, and then share the feed URL with your friends.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets more than 2 people video chat.
• Supports up to 4 people per video conference.
• Supports audio.
• Similar tools: Head-To-Head, Faceflow, Imo.im and Uniqq.
• Also read related articles:
  3 Video Chat Alternatives If You Get Bored With Chatroulette
  5 Apps That Let You Video Chat With Facebook Friends.

Check out AV by AIM @ www.aim.com/av (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Sifonr is a free Flash-based online tool. Primarily it is a chat-room creation website. Much like any other chat-room creation website, Sifonr lets you easily create a room by naming it and without registering for an account. The room supports video, audio, and text chatting for all its participants.

All you need to do is share the room’s URL with your friends to hold a video conference with them. In addition to this, the chat-rooms support FLV streaming and an unlimited number of participants. You can even stylize a chat-room and embed it on your site through the provided embeddable code.

Features:

• Easy group video calling.
• Lets you create chat room without any registration.
• Rooms supports video, audio, and textual chat.
• Rooms are embeddable.
• Rooms supports FLV streaming.
• An unlimited number of people can join the chat room.
• Similar tools: PalBee, ChatRoulette, Uniqq, Head-To-Head, RandomDorm and BoostCam.
• Also read related article: How to Create Your Own Chat Room.

Check out Sifonr @ www.sifonr.com (via RedFerret) (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Here’s how it works: you sign up with them, get friends and fans, they ask you questions, and you submit video responses to them. The site organizes those messages and videos into conversations, thereby producing a continuous stream of video responses.

You can use this service to ask questions to people you admire, and get advice from others. Sharing the videos is easy too. It provides the video embed code, which can be used on any other site. Videos can be directly shared on social sites like Facebook and Twitter too.

Features

• Conversations using video.
• Messages and videos organized into conversations.
• Ask questions to celebrities and leaders, and see them answering.
• Share the videos on blogs, Facebook and Twitter.

Check out Vyou @ www.vyou.com (via TechCrunch By Abhijeet from GT Resources)

The whole concept of socializing at BrainRepublic revolves around conversations and topics. You can create a new topic that you want to talk about and other people who are interested in it will connect with you. The conversation can then take place via a simple text chat or an audio/video or audio only chat with great quality.

Alternatively, you can browse through the list of topics that other users want to talk about and jump in. If the other user is seeking professional advice, you can also choose to charge them a small fee.

You can create and maintain a list of your interests so whenever a new topic matching your interests is posted, you’ll know about it immediately. You can mark users as favorites, invite friends from Facebook and browse through the list of users who have the same interests as yourself. You can also rate each user and send them messages even if they are offline.

A tag cloud displays the most popular topics across the network and a list of recently started topics tell you what people are interested in talking about. Overall, it is a great way to connect with strangers and the focus on talking about common interests really makes it stand out.

Features:

• Connect and video chat with people online on common interests.
• Engage in a audio/video or text-only chat.
• Find people who share the same interests.
• Post new topics or see what people want to talk about.
• Talk for free or charge a small fee for your professional advice.
• Invite friends from Facebook.

Visit BrainRepublic @ www.brainrepublic.com

Rounds also lets you see who is online right now from all over the world and filter the results based on age, location, gender and interests. The tool also lets developers create new games and activities using its API. You can sign in to Rounds with your Facebook, MSN, Google or Yahoo! username and automatically invite your friends from any of these services. Users can also build a detailed profile like Facebook and upload photos.

Demo video:

Features:

• Video chat with your friends and strangers.
• Add people as friends, send messages and share photos.
• See your friends and friends of your friends.
• Search users based on age, location and gender.
• Sign in with Yahoo!, Facebook, Google or MSN account.

Visit Rounds @ www.rounds.com

Anybody already familiar with Chatroulette already knows how iChatr works. When you install the app on your iPhone 4, it can be used to randomly video chat with other iPhone 4 owners over Wi-Fi. When you get connected to an iPhone 4 user and want to move on, you can swipe the person and the next random person will be connected. To enable audio, you have to wear earphones / headphones so that you can listen without holding the phone up to your ear.

Features:

• iPhone based random chat.
• Has a very small download size (0.5 MB).
• Randomly connects you with other iPhone 4 owners to have video conversations.
• Lets you find another person randomly in case you do not want to chat with the current person.
• Also read related articles: MakeUseOf Your iPhone: Palringo Instant Messenger and WhatsApp ““ The Perfect iPhone Messenger App.

Check out iChatr @ iChatr for iPhone (via Gizmodo) (by MOin from ThumbPress)

At any point in time you can also engage in a private chat with any of the online users by sending them a message. The casual and funky interface also gives the tool a fresh perspective. You can always turn off your microphone or mute any other user. Invite your friends from Facebook and Twitter and make video group chats fun again.

Features:

• Participate in video chats with random users.
• Type a public message or engage in private chats.
• Invite friends using Faceboon or Twitter.
• Mute or block any user you want.
• No registration required.
• Similar tool: ChatRoulette, Head-To-Head and OnlyChat.

Visit InternetCongaLine @ www.internetcongaline.com [via TechCrunch]

6rounds is the first free product of the GixOO platform. Using the website, you can create a presentation or “personal slide show” which is used to inform other users about you. Each “˜round’ means connecting with another 6rounds user via video and textual chat.

During video chatting, both of you can add visual effects (much similar to “winks” in Windows Live Messenger). Rounds are initiated by specific invitation or by joining a room based on activity/game /topic. In these rooms you are automatically connected with people in the same room. In the middle of the round you and your chat partner can share many activities. These shareable activities include co-browsing on YouTube, Facebook, and playing numerous games with each other.

Watch demo video below:

Features:

• User friendly interface.
• API available to develop your own application.
• Google Wave integration.
• Sign in using Facebook, Google and may others.
• Helps find new friend with similar tastes.
• Lets you add effects to vide chat.
• Similar tools: Head-To-Head, TokBox, ManyCam, TinyChat, OnlyChat and RandomDorm.

Check out 6rounds @ www.6rounds.com

ChatRide is a free video conversation tool that lets you do a video chat from within your browser window. Once you initiate a chat, you will get a permanent URL for your chat session that you can send to your friend. Once they click on it, your video chat starts. You can also go fullscreen or do a text chat simultaneously.

Features:

• Do a video chat from your browser.
• Nothing to download or install.
• Do a text chat simultaneously.
• Turn on/off chat sounds.
• Adjust your audio and video capture devices.
• No registration required.
• View full-screen.
• For more similar tools check out MakeUseOf “video chat” section.

Visit ChatRide @ www.chatride.com