Comments on: Video Conferencing - SightSpeed Taking Aim at Business http://www.henshall.com/stuart/2007/10/30/video-conferencing-sightspeed-taking-aim-at-business/ an unbound place for inquiry, conversation... feed the spiral Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:25:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Albert Kim http://www.henshall.com/stuart/2007/10/30/video-conferencing-sightspeed-taking-aim-at-business/#comment-1677 Albert Kim Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:30:33 +0000 http://www.henshall.com/stuart/2007/10/30/video-conferencing-sightspeed-taking-aim-at-business/#comment-1677 Thanks for the great insights. It's really valuable information. I’d like you to check out our free, online video conferencing service called PalBee.com. At PalBee.com, we offer registered users the ability to talk with their colleagues, friends, and acquaintances in a presentation-focused interface that combines the most important features of communication. Visitors of our web site can also use it to record online presentations, which can be viewed at a later time by anyone with an Internet connection and a flash-enabled web browser. If people would like to add this ability to their own web sites, we offer a Mashup API that registered beta testers can add to their own sites in order to offer free online video conferencing to their own places on the web. Hope you enjoy the service :-) Albert Thanks for the great insights.
It’s really valuable information.

I’d like you to check out our free, online video conferencing service called PalBee.com. At PalBee.com, we offer registered users the ability to talk with their colleagues, friends, and acquaintances in a presentation-focused interface that combines the most important features of communication. Visitors of our web site can also use it to record online presentations, which can be viewed at a later time by anyone with an Internet connection and a flash-enabled web browser. If people would like to add this ability to their own web sites, we offer a Mashup API that registered beta testers can add to their own sites in order to offer free online video conferencing to their own places on the web.

Hope you enjoy the service :-)

Albert

]]> By: mark http://www.henshall.com/stuart/2007/10/30/video-conferencing-sightspeed-taking-aim-at-business/#comment-1672 mark Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:24:50 +0000 http://www.henshall.com/stuart/2007/10/30/video-conferencing-sightspeed-taking-aim-at-business/#comment-1672 Thank Staurt for the comments. Regards, Mark. Thank Staurt for the comments.

Regards,
Mark.

]]> By: Stuart http://www.henshall.com/stuart/2007/10/30/video-conferencing-sightspeed-taking-aim-at-business/#comment-1081 Stuart Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:49:12 +0000 http://www.henshall.com/stuart/2007/10/30/video-conferencing-sightspeed-taking-aim-at-business/#comment-1081 Hi Robin, Great comments. You are right, they are targeting a different group and I think they have a real opportunity to cut out new ground targeted to business. On recording capability I've had a bug so far and not able to test it. I plan to try a four person video call and record it. Maybe you would like to do that with me and a couple of others. I use http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/ for my mac and Skype it is simply brilliant. It provides more features than the Sightspeed recording approach. I can't help but compare to Skype. That is my day to day video service. I do think there is an opportunity for businesses to push video in certain situations. Sightspeed provides the beginnings of a gesture or request that will get used. Like the UI it requires more development. Cheers Stuart Hi Robin,
Great comments. You are right, they are targeting a different group and I think they have a real opportunity to cut out new ground targeted to business.

On recording capability I’ve had a bug so far and not able to test it. I plan to try a four person video call and record it. Maybe you would like to do that with me and a couple of others.

I use http://www.ecamm.com/mac/callrecorder/ for my mac and Skype it is simply brilliant. It provides more features than the Sightspeed recording approach.

I can’t help but compare to Skype. That is my day to day video service. I do think there is an opportunity for businesses to push video in certain situations. Sightspeed provides the beginnings of a gesture or request that will get used. Like the UI it requires more development.

Cheers

Stuart

]]> By: Robin Good http://www.henshall.com/stuart/2007/10/30/video-conferencing-sightspeed-taking-aim-at-business/#comment-1076 Robin Good Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:48:37 +0000 http://www.henshall.com/stuart/2007/10/30/video-conferencing-sightspeed-taking-aim-at-business/#comment-1076 Hi Stuart, great and timely points on the new SightSpeed new web-based offering. I agree with your comments about the UI, as they are long due and need to take a much more radical approach. It's too bad you do not mention their best of the industry video conferencing recording ability which to me has next to no competition. I also think SightSpeed is unfairly matched to IM platforms that can do video as well, while I see it more directly competing with the likes of a little more sophisticated and costly tools such as there in the small business video conferencing space. I may be wrong but while tech specs may be similar, the sales and marketing work has also an impact over time and I think SightSpeed has done an excellent job at NOT slotting itself as a higher grade competitor than just any instant messenger with video. I also noticed, that probably ironically, you are calling for an update from me (you write: Time for an update Robin!), but you are referencing an outdated blog URL, off since over 2 years. If you want to look at my latest coverage of SightSpeed you can check out: http://tinyurl.com/3ypl84 and all of my recent work is found via www.masternewmedia.org Keep up the good work! Hi Stuart,
great and timely points on the new SightSpeed new web-based offering.

I agree with your comments about the UI, as they are long due and need to take a much more radical approach.

It’s too bad you do not mention their best of the industry video conferencing recording ability which to me has next to no competition.

I also think SightSpeed is unfairly matched to IM platforms that can do video as well, while I see it more directly competing with the likes of a little more sophisticated and costly tools such as there in the small business video conferencing space. I may be wrong but while tech specs may be similar, the sales and marketing work has also an impact over time and I think SightSpeed has done an excellent job at NOT slotting itself as a higher grade competitor than just any instant messenger with video.

I also noticed, that probably ironically, you are calling for an update from me (you write: Time for an update Robin!), but you are referencing an outdated blog URL, off since over 2 years. If you want to look at my latest coverage of SightSpeed you can check out:
http://tinyurl.com/3ypl84
and all of my recent work is found via
http://www.masternewmedia.org

Keep up the good work!

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