What does VOIP get you?

As part of my ongoing "Year of VOIP" rant, I submit Tim Bray's Telephony R.I.P.? or "Video conferencing for free"/"Videophone's for the Rest of us".

also extremetech has this on webcam's :The $40 Device You Didn't Know You Needed

And Wired has "Why Your Next Phone Call May Be Online, which means its mainstream geek. (Now only the PCweek article is missing)