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Visual Communications Industry Group Conference
For the old timers reading this, you remember TeleCon. Once a year in Anaheim, 20,000 or so of your industry friends would gather to learn about video conferencing, audio conferencing and collaboration. The conference was electric (and Disneyland and Universal were soooo close)….lots of ideas, lots of stuff, lots of great people….wow! RANT { Then….at…
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Video Conferencing Products & Services Update: Cisco / Tandberg
Update August 2023: Consider this a HISTORY lesson in videoconferencing! I disabled the links since I wrote this in 2011……Enjoy! Cisco/Tandberg Overarching Philosophy (my take) Corporate, high end, “Telepresence” What I Think of When I Think of Cisco / Tandberg Routers / Reliable Video Conferencing Hardware Product Line Tandberg has been around the video conferencing…
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Telepresence Smellepresence
I have been following some (very lively) discussions lately and it occured to me that we might be losing sight of the real value of video, audio, data conferencing in our lives. It is NOT all about super high definition video or audio (although good audio is important), and it is NOT about the most…
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Sept 11 2001 and Video Conferencing
September 11, 2001 (Originally written for ForCarol.com) Lori’s mother’s birthday started out just like any other day. I was just getting up, Lori was already getting Kristen ready for school, Sunny (our currently 11 year old yellow lab who now has a tumor that is scaring us) was bouncing around as only he could do.…
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LifeSize versus Cisco
Surfing the Internet and I found this interesting article on Bloomberg. A snippet: “LifeSize Communications Inc., a unit of computer-mouse maker Logitech International SA (LOGN), expects revenue to jump as it competes with rivals including Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) to add clients in the videoconference market, set to more than double in the next five years. LifeSize’s sales…
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Video Conferencing Product Update: LifeSize
As promised a few posts down, I will be studying a few video conferencing vendors to get a “snapshot” of where they are in mid to late 2011. I will start with LifeSize. Here we go…. Lifesize’s Overarching Philosophy “Connect anyone, anywhere, any device” What I Think of When I Think of Lifesize High definition…
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New Video Conferencing Vendors, Products, Services and Applications Series
OK, here we go. I have started work on a new series of blog posts introducing various videoconferencing vendors and their products, services, applications and philosophy (Thanks, Dave! Gotta love Coworking!). I hope to be able to introduce my loyal reader of this blog (yeah you! :-)) to the various options you may have for…
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BlueJeans Network: Cloud Video Conferencing
UPDATED: 5/25/2020 Ah yes, I remember it well. I remember the day when I had to order an ISDN line at home (remember 2B+D?) to attend a videoconference from home (hey…I practice not just preach telecommuting!). Then, what seems like a short time later (and after ATM and Token Ring fell by the wayside…) we…
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Vidyo on the Apple iPad2
Damn this is great! Friend Czoli from Vidyo shared this on Google+ today. I have said this a thousand times before: Video conferencing anytime, anyplace, anyone. Vidyo (see my getting old review of Vidyo here). — —
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Facebook Skype Video Chat
Well, it seems that Facebook now offers point-to-point video chatting from within Facebook. Good for them! BUT…point-to-point is kinda useless…just saying. I have more than one friend I like to chat with, and all the Bay Shore Kids could have a reunion. Overall Opinion HoHum, but, at least video conferencing is now reaching the masses.…
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