Check out Excellent User Help: Skype’s Visual, Streamlined Approach by Rebekah Frederick. Here is an excerpt:
There are a variety of web-based video chat applications that you can choose to employ for real-time internet conversations. FaceTime, Google Hangouts, AnyMeeting, TinyChat, and even Facebook have a version of video chat that users can download, buy, or stream easily. Skype, however, is one of…
The full article is available here.