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Coworking vs A Private Office with Doors
What is the first thing you do when you start a small business? Among other things…….you look for an office. Right? In 2022, you have choices to make….do you want a Private Office or do you want to join a Coworking location? Read on to help you make a decision. 🙂 Private Office Your vision…
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The Woz and Stan Lee Use Video Conferencing to Plan Comic Con 2016
How far has videoconferencing technology come in the past 25 years? Pretty far, but, it sure has taken a long time. The culture has finally caught up with the technology. Watch the YouTube video below as Stan Lee and Steve Wozniak decide to have Comic Con 2016 in the San Jose Convention Center, March 19…
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The Pope Uses Google Hangouts
Back in the day, I knew videoconferencing would reach the highest level of attention. Little did I know how high this technology would reach. Apparently, almost all the way to the top. VERY cool !!! Gotta love video conferencing. On Feb 5, 2015 Pope Francis held his second (see below for the video of…
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Polycom Video Conferencing Report and InfoGraphic
In the old days, we (ESnet, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) used to visit Polycom HQ (when they were in Pleasanton, CA) to either: Get an update on the latest and greatest videoconferencing technology, or, prod them for one reason or another. History Lesson: We (ESnet, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) were pioneering cloud-based “ad-hoc” videoconferencing between 1999…
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Playing with Smilies
I just found this in the DRAFT posts from 7 years ago!!!!!! I wonder why I never posted it? Anyway, here it is…..fun with smilies (now known as emoticons or emoji). UPDATE January 2023: Consider the below a HISTORY LESSON. 🙂 Animated Hug Go Girl Wink Happy Sad Laugh Animated Confused Question Mark Animated Love…
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Blue Jeans Changes Cloud Video Conferencing Again
– – Hot off the heels of Enterprise Connect where the WebRTC Conference-within-a-Conference drew overflow crowds, Blue Jeans Network will announce it’s newest product: Sniff RTC. On Monday, April 1, the cloud-based video conference service and unofficial work from home sponsor will unveil the newest feature enriching the video conferencing experience to better connect users around the world. The Sniff TRC patented olfactory technology…
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Cloud Based Video Conferencing Adds Features
Here is a VERY important announcement from the good folks at Blue Jeans Networks. ******Copy this URL and share it with ALL of your friends and colleagues **** This is TOO IMPORTANT to ignore! Whooops!!!! On the ADVICE of my LAWYER….. (Click here on Monday after 8 AM EST to read the announcement….my bad) …
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Blue Jeans announces bi-directional HD desktop sharing for Microsoft Lync users
Update August 2023: Consider this a HISTORY lesson in videoconferencing. Enjoy! 🙂 I love cloud-based multipoint videoconferencing, but, you already know that. Here is a SCOOP from Blue Jeans Network that I just got permission to post. I was told that Blue Jeans has been interoperating Skype and Lync since 2011 (even though the press…
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Google Chat on Motorola Atrix Smartphone
In the process of evaluating the ZTE ZXV10 T700 (I will post the entire product review by weeks end…I hope), I went ahead and made a three way video conferencing call using our friends at cloud-based video conferencing service provider Vidtel. The picture above shows a Google Chat connection via my Toshiba Laptop computer (middle), the…
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Bryan Hellard Reviews: Fuzebox
According to the salesman, FuzeBox licenses from Vidyo its SVC (which he called Scalable Video Codec not coding) but uses something different for audio. That was immediately apparent because there were no audio issues during the call and I used my webcam’s microphone and desktop speakers. Ease of use Unfortunately, I was not given Host…
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