While the standards bodies and heavyweights (Google, Microsoft, Firefox) all duke it out on the WebRTC standard the developers and visionaries of how work will get done in the future are not standing still in attacking the collaboration space at all. And its just in time as I'm tired of traveling and am finding that … Read more
Like many of you, I live on conference calls. Meet me on the bridge is a standard part of our vocabularly, with calls on the calendar to avoid a call you're expecting being missed by a call you didn't expect. Yesterday on a conference call using Citrix's GoToMeeting with James Tagg, CTO and Founder of … Read more
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to sit down with the founders of Voxeet, a new audio conferencing service that just launched their iOS and Android apps after finishing on top in a competition sponsored by Bandwidth.com. Previously they had a Windows app and are promising a Mac client shortly. In an era where … Read more
Image via Wikipedia Already a competitor to Citrix in the GoTo category of support tools with LogMeIn Rescue and LogMeIn as a remote desktop service that gets around firewalls nicely, the folks at LogMeIn are now taking aim at GoToMeeting, GoToTraining, GoToWebinar and of course HiDef Conferencing with the news of VoIP support for Join.Me, … Read more
Over the past week I've become aware of three new collaboration services that are easy to use and basically challenge the space led by Cisco's WebEx and CItrix Online's GoToMeeting, not to mention put all kinds of pressure on Glance which has had a nice run at the online screen sharing space. The three are: MeetingBurner.com … Read more
Image via CrunchBase I'm more and more hooked on video calling. Why? Well as someone who works from home, hotels and pretty much, anywhere, I like to see people. Having been at the early stages of video calling back first with SightSpeed whom I served as an adviser to and as the agency of record … Read more
Image via CrunchBase No question I fall into the category of early adopter. I've been using video for as long as there has been the possibility. CuSeeMe, SightSpeed (former client-exited to Logitech) and of course, Skype. Let's look past the deal with Comcast, which is being powered by Technicolor. Instead let's look at it from a … Read more
Image via CrunchBase A report has Polycom working on an iPad client for cloud based video with tests slated to start in October in Australia. This will likely be long after a native iPad Skype client comes out for the Apple tablet, and smart money has Skype including video in that version, as it's a logical extension for them. Polycom's … Read more
Image via Wikipedia I’ll admit, that I love to go to Starbucks as my “get away” from the home office office. Meeting are easy to arrange at their locations, as most people in the technology world know where one is. So of late, after returning from my exhaustive 6 week European business trip and mini-vacation, … Read more
Image via Wikipedia I'll admit, that I love to go to Starbucks as my "get away" from the home office office. Meeting are easy to arrange at their locations, as most people in the technology world know where one is. So of late, after returning from my exhaustive 6 week European business trip and mini-vacation, … Read more
