Category: Video
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Tim Panton’s VERY cool demo: Google Wave + Skype + Asterisk + Ibook
Continue Reading: Tim Panton’s VERY cool demo: Google Wave + Skype + Asterisk + IbookOver on Skype Journal, Phil Wolf posted about Tim Panton’s VERY cool demo which he gave at Astricon and then apparently just yesterday at eComm Europe. Tim from phonefromhere.com mashes up Google Wave, Skype, Asterisk (with Skype for Asterisk) and Ibook to make Skype calls from within a Wave, complete with recordings of utterances and, naturally, the ability to have an annotated collaboration session in Wave:Phil quotes Jason Goecke (a colleague of mine at Voxeo) describing how it works:
“it is a Google Wave Gadget with his PhoneFromHere.com IAX2 Java softphone as the client. Then, the IAX2 Java phone connects to Asterisk with Skype for Asterisk installed. Then, there is a server-side element, Ibook, that is breaking apart utterances into individual files. So that as each person speaks, it captures it into its own file. Then, as that happens, a text frame is sent from Asterisk to the softphone with the file details. The gadget then uses some Javascript to embed a link. IAX2 supports text frames.”
Read Phil’s full post for more info and for Phil’s views on what this all means.
VERY cool demo!
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Humorous video – in how many movies is the “No Signal” theme over-used?
Continue Reading: Humorous video – in how many movies is the “No Signal” theme over-used?It’s Friday, so here’s a bit of humor… I admit that I had not really paid attention to how incredibly over-used the “my cellphone has no signal” theme has been in recent movies until I saw this video. Keep watching, though, because after the “no signal” theme, it does go into other amusingly over-used themes like dropping mobile phones in water, ripping them apart, burning them, etc….Kudos to someone named Rich Juzwiak for apparently editing together pieces of 66 movies!
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Video: Sir Terry Matthews on startups, Canada, what’s exciting…
Continue Reading: Video: Sir Terry Matthews on startups, Canada, what’s exciting…By way of a tweet from Matt Roberts, a friend from my Mitel days, I learned of this video interview with Sir Terry Matthews on Canada’s Business News Network:Sir Terry Matthews speaks to BNN about the state of the industry in Canada, why he loves home-grown startups and what he sees as the next big thing in technology.
If you’ve not heard him before, the interview is a good view into the passion, enthusiasm and charisma that keeps him starting up companies all over the place. The report says he’s now up to 80 companies or so that he’s started up… and I’m not surprised.
His overall message, though, is what he has been consistent saying for many years now… we are in an age where incredible broadband capacity is coming online – as that happens, what will we do to make use of all that bandwidth?
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Explaining Voxeo in a 30-second video…
Continue Reading: Explaining Voxeo in a 30-second video…While out at ITEXPO in Los Angeles last month, I had a chance to meet up with Jeb Brilliant (yes, that’s his real name), someone who I had come to know through all the various Squawk Box conference calls/podcasts that I had participated in. He joined me as I was walking the show floor and then back at the Voxeo booth he asked if he could record a very brief 30-second video interview with me talking about what Voxeo does. He has now posted that video and you’re welcome to check it out.Technorati Tags: ccxml, commdev, dan york, danyork, itexpo, sip, voicemail, voxeo
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Joining ooVoo for video… are you an ooVoo user?
Continue Reading: Joining ooVoo for video… are you an ooVoo user?I gave in today and installed ooVoo on my Mac. I’d resisted because I’m a wee bit swamped right now, but with friends talking about “My ooVoo Day” starting on Monday I finally succumbed and installed it. I admit to being a skeptic… but I’m also open to being surprised. My skepticism is mainly because I already have a zillion ways for people to contact me and I already run several IM/voice/video clients… so it’s really NOT clear to me that I need another one. Still, the interface looks interesting and they’ve incorporated many of the features you would see in Skype and other clients… presence, status messages, etc. Many of the features are intriguing, such as the ability to do video conferencing with up to six people.
So as the admitted chaser of bright shiny objects that I am, and since they do have a Mac version – and my Mac has a webcam, I’ve installed it. Of course, given that sites like this don’t yet support what DataPortability.org is aiming to do, I have no contacts, so it’s rather useless to me right now. Yes, I can use the “Find Friends” feature to import contacts from…
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A video greeting from IETF 70 in Vancouver
Continue Reading: A video greeting from IETF 70 in VancouverI was up way too early out here in Vancouver, so I wandered over to the show hotel and recorded a little greeting:
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A simple answer to why I’ve done more videoconferencing in the past 3 weeks than I have in the past 3 *years*…
Continue Reading: A simple answer to why I’ve done more videoconferencing in the past 3 weeks than I have in the past 3 *years*…In the past three weeks I have done more videoconferencing than I have in the past three years…including my year or so as the product manager for Mitel’s video collaboration products.
Why?
There’s a simple answer, really. And it speaks to the heart of why I think it has taken so long for videoconferencing to take off… I mean, we’ve have been talking about videophones for what? 40 years or so?
The answer is… duh!… I have a camera always available!
It is always there, sitting at the top of my MacBook Pro screen, just waiting to be used. Whenever I am in a Skype call, or using Sightspeed or iChat… or any other communication program that supports video… moving into video is as simple as pressing a button in the GUI and… ta da… we’re in a video conversation.
Contrast that to the situation a few years back where moving into video involved making sure your camera was connected first. In fact, some of the various programs required a restart after you connected a camera, which meant that you couldn’t just escalate into video while you were in the midst of a call. Back when I was…
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Skype releases new 3.5 beta that adds video into chats and mood messages
Continue Reading: Skype releases new 3.5 beta that adds video into chats and mood messagesAs announced yesterday on the Share Skype blog and in more detail on the Skype Garage blog (and also in the Windows Release Notes), Skype has released an updated 3.5 beta for Windows. Skype 3.5 beta came out earlier this month, but this new update includes several new features, most notably the ability to add video into a chat or mood message, and per the release notes it also fixes a range of bugs. Jim Courtney has more info over at Skype Journal, but I found this piece of interest with regard to the new video snapshot capability (which now allows you to take a snapshot of the remote video, i.e. the person you are speaking with):
Providing your video also implies that your provide your remote participant with permission to make snapshots. Video snapshots inherits existing privacy mechanisms associated with turning on your video.
So basically if you use Skype video, you should be aware that the person with whom you are chatting could easily capture images of you. (Obviously this has always been possible with screen capture programs, but this is now built into Skype.)
On the “adding videos to chat or mood message” feature, my initial reaction…
