At today's Mac occasion, Steve Jobs announced that FaceTime for the Mac. It populates with people today from your Address book, and also you just click on them to create the connection no screen names or anything. It runs across Macs, iPod Touches and iPhone 4s (and assumedly the next iPad.)
There's no mention if it interfaces with iChat, too.
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