Skype where computer science meets social science - is a great example of FaceTime
Video is finally here and it's real. Yes!!
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/06/11/video.playdate/index.html?hpt=Sbin
Kids experiment with 'video playdates'
at age 2, Ella has come a long way. She understands now that her grandparents are five hours away, looking at her through a webcam, Riggs said. "She knows the noise the computer makes when Mimi and Papa are calling," she said. "She runs over to it excited."
In fact, Ella's gotten so good with this technology that she's embarking on a new level of video-conference sophistication:
Skype playdates with toddler peers.