TechCrunch is running a story about Tokbox, who today released an Adobe AIR desktop client that allows users on Windows, Mac and Linux to do video chatting, absolutely free.

The video quality on the application is really good, as is the audio quality (after a few quick minutes testing it at work - not sure what it would be like over the Internet tubes, but the local network tubes were good).

The desktop AIR application is identical to the web based application that they have online, which is really well done.

The only problem I had was when I installed the application, it did prompt me to import my contacts from other IM clients, which was nice. But it would be even better if all these IM companies shared my information with one and another. That's not a complaint about Tokbox per say, just IM in general, though its something that they're going to have to deal with.