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VSee at the Sales 2.0 Conference

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VSee participated in the Sales 2.0 Conference held at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco earlier this month.

The team (both in person and remote) had a great time introducing VSee to the experienced and field-seasoned sales leaders. We were really encouraged that they loved how VSee would help them increase their sales teams’ productivity. Anyhow, here are some photos from our time at the Sales 2.0 Conference:

Here’s Darren with John and Siu Rui in remote giving demos:

Siu Rui with Former Celebrity CMO of Kodak, Jeffrey Hayzlett (twitter: @JeffreyHayzlett)

And Milton, VSee Founder & CEO, with Rich Baker, Founder and CEO of Glance and former VP & CTO of PictureTel.

If you missed a demo and would like one, feel free to ask us for one. We’ll be happy to give you one through VSee. In the meantime, take a look at our brochure to learn more about VSee for your sales team. :)

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Skype IPO doesn’t mean Enterprise Solution

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Skype announced it will soon have an IPO.  (Also here.)

Let’s not confuse this with being a business tool.

Yes, video calling is handy for businesses.  But what about presentation and collaborative tools?

Skype has an immense user base, and yet operational income for the first half of 2010 was only $1.4M.  This net is surprisingly small for a company this large and with their revenues ($406M).  Sustaining this small income means expanding upon a model that simply doesn’t support businesses, and doesn’t appear efficient in the first place.

Let’s break this down:

Skype is designed to encourage viral adoption.  A simple UI, free for everyone to get, and free to make most calls.  Most especially, scalability to global proportions and the ability to make and receive calls from ANYwhere with enough bandwidth.

Part of Skype’s weakness for enterprise use lies in that last portion.  Scalability to gl Continue reading →

Skype Group Calling? 6 Ways VSee Stands Above

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1.  Skype’s beta only allows up to 5 callers—I’ve had an 11-way call* on VSee.

2.  Skype only shares desktop OR video—VSee shows both.

3.  Speaking of screen sharing:  Skype’s screen sharing quality can be sub-par—VSee’s starts pixel perfect.

4.  Skype has little else for collaborative tools—VSee does it all.

5.  Skype is aimed at personal use—VSee is meant for getting work done!

6. Skype charges (about $5 for a day pass or $9 per month)—VSee is free for personal use, period.

*Remember, you have to have the CPU and available bandwidth to do this.  This will also be true for Skype.  I use a 2.2 GHz dual core computer with roughly a Mb of bandwidth both up and downstream.  However, even on a netbook on an EVDO card I can have a good 3-way call.

The Competition is Heating Up…

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…But it’s just not there yet.  I mean, we’re free for most users, right?

So this was an interesting bit of news today from TechCrunch and ViVu.

Basically, ViVu created a Skype plug-in called “VuRoom” that will enable multiparty calling and some additional collaboration tools.

Aaaand they’re going to charge $9.95 a month for it.  Now, it’s reported that Skype uses some running installations as “supernodes” to share the massive directory and even conversation traffic, which can severely reduce your available bandwidth—even when running only in the system tray!  Risking this, and since Skype’s video is lower-quality even for one-on-one conversations, why switch to something that is likely to degrade video quality even more by adding additional callers and spend $10 a month to do it?

Someone over here (I won’t say who), brought up another interesting point:  ViVu seems to have faith that Skype won’t natively support multiparty conferencing tools at this level in the near future.  Doesn’t that feel like a gamble?  If that happens, what will the VuRoom subscribers do?

Sadly, the story mentions they’ll be facing competition from TokBox and Tinychat, but doesn’t mention VSee.  I’ll be the first to admit we’re not (yet) well enough known, but still, when we’re offering a fully featured multiparty video calling/conferencing/collaboration solution to the general public for free, it blows my mind that more casual users haven’t discovered us yet. (I know, I know.  But seriously, do most casual users call more than 10 people a month via video?   I didn’t think so.)

Readers, tell you friends what’s over here.  Start a little grassroots campaign to get the word out.  Our friends shouldn’t need to spend money to use these tools!!!

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

Okay, I’m getting off my soapbox now.  ;)