Earlier this week Skype Journal reported on Skype’s sponsorship of Oprah.com’s Web Events involving “classes” discussing Eckhart Tolle’s book A New Earth. A unique aspect of this presentation involved “full duplex” video dialogues as viewers posed questions. In some cases the viewers were supplied with the appropriate webcam and dual processor PC so that they [...]
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Skype Video Gets Exposure; Oprah.com Suffers Congestive Internet Failure
Getting an interactive Internet program broadcast out to 500,000 proves to be a true pioneering effort; Oprah.com and Harpo Productions demonstrate the value of transparent communication to your audience as a result of a communication technology breakdown. From the Web Event web site at about 10:00 p.m. EST: Congestive heart failure is a disease [...]
2007′s Top Ten Skype Accomplishments
While this blog tends to focus on new developments and the role they can play in our future real time conversations, it sometimes pays to look back to see what has been accomplished. For 2007, these are, from my perspective, top ten accomplishments for the Skype ecosystem: 1. eBay CEO Meg Whitman states at an [...]
High Quality Video: Definitely a Winner for Skype
High Quality Video certainly places superior demands on technology resources; in testing yesterday evening with Phone Boy, Dameon Welch, we found superior performance for the user who has those resources. In previous posts I have talked about doing a setup for High Quality Video and subsequently putting together the requirements, goals and benchmarks for High [...]
High Quality Video: What’s the Benchmark?
Lots of confusion out there: High Quality Video, HD Video, HD Voice, High Definition Audio? What do these terms mean? And what does High Quality Video mean when it comes to Skype Video calling? “Well, my configuration should work”, comes from both other vendors and some end users. Did a bit of research to try [...]
Yugma Skype Edtion Adds Remote Viewer
When doing presentations via desktop sharing applications there are situations where you simply want the remote parties to passively view your desktop; I have seen this customer request with several desktop sharing applications over the years where ultimate simplicity is more appropriate to the participant who is following the session. Yugma has now developed a [...]
Installing a Logitech High Quality Video Camera: The Experience.
The major new feature with the recently released Skype 3.6 for Windows is the High Quality Video (“HQV”) which provides 640 x 320 VGA resolution at 30 frames per second (“fps”). (As a reference point, my previous Logitech QuickCam for Notebooks Deluxe would only work on video calls at 320 x 240 resolution with <10 [...]
Yugma Skype Edition: Cross Platform Desktop Sharing
With the increased acceptance of the Mac platforms in the market a (a record 2.1 million sold in the fiscal 2007 fourth quarter), we are seeing rising demand for Skype Extras that run on the Mac platform. A good place to start is a desktop sharing application that is effectively agnostic to the operating system. [...]
Convenos Meeting Center: Your Conference Board Room
When looking at Convenos, think of entering your conference or board room and encountering the audio-visual devices within that room: a slide projector, a whiteboard, a video monitor and probably a display adapter with screen. In essence Convenos Meeting Center moves that board room to the Internet, even to the point where you can enter [...]
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