...communications...

Communication applications are just what you expect, their whole purpose is to provide communication using internet based resources. Each of these application are web-based services and require you to sign up for an account.

• GoogleApps/Gmail (email, chat, video and voice)
• Skype (video and voice)
• Blogger (journal)

Although Google offers a plethora of services including video, voice and chat communications, I wanted to show some other options are every bit as good as Google and are widely used around the world.  Google can be the catch-all for your communication needs offering open ended web-space for their users. Although they're format isn't quite like a Blog so I wanted to offer another option for web posting.
*Please note that the free version of Skype is limited to other Skype users (but it's a free sign up so no reason for friends and family not to sign up too.)