Reprinted wholesale from 3G Doctor Blog, by David Doherty (article link): Although those of us familiar with the use of video technology might think this is like not appreciating the opportunity that TV gave us over radio, I think it’s actually an interesting question and wanted to share my response here…
On August 12th at 2:00 p.m. ET, Mandy Moore joins Nothing But Nets™ and PSI for a video townhall on malaria in Africa, broadcast on Facebook®. The video conferencing service will be provided by VSee Lab, Inc. and Ustream, and the event is hosted by Derrick Ashong, one of Katalyst Media’s Social…
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…
Lest you think I don’t support video collaboration in conference rooms, I actually love it! I just don’t think an expensive telepresence setup is needed for a successful conference. For a sliver of a fraction of a percentage of the cost, you can have a great conference room setup using…
Iraqi Refugee Children in Syria Amongst the events planned to celebrate World Refugee Day (June 20th), the State Department on Friday, June 18, will host, via VSee videoconference, High Commissioner Guterres and several recognizable figures who have traveled to refugee sites around the world. The event will be moderated by…
These are by Rich Griffin, who wrote them as a comment to the original “VSee Stands Above Skype” post. Thanks Rich! Here are my reasons Skype’s 5-way video chat doesn’t do it for me: 1.) Skype is often verboten in the enterprise because it works around corporate network policy. VSee…
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.…
A specialist in BC, Dr. Ng discovered many patients are sent by their dentists or dental hygienists from the rural areas where they live to specialists in the Lower Mainland for consultations. The Lower Mainland is the highly-populated region of BC that includes Vancouver, and is more than three hours…
We’ve devoted posts to the corporate environment of remote work and distributed teams. Today’s installment is directed at our end users who find themselves to be, you guessed it, remote workers. There is sometimes an assumption within the tech world that any problem can be solved by a tool. “If…
HEALTHTECHTOPIA, a healthcare technology blog, today named VSee one of the top “25 Notable Start-ups Changing the Medical Information Industry.” To quote them, “Information technology is building in the medical sector, along with new jobs in many of the start-ups mentioned in this list. From visual and imaging information to…
In researching the cover story for the April issue of Inc. magazine, The Case for the Virtual Company, the entire editorial staff went virtual. Using email, mobile phones, and video conferencing they spent the month putting together the issue from home, coffee shops, and any place but their luxurious offices…
I didn’t forget the promise for a post on daytime lighting for a video conference call. Here’s an example of my office, with a typical issue I see when talking to people on VSee:
We’ve all been there. Someone sends you an email asking you a question. You respond and ask for some clarification. Three days of back-and-forth emails later, you get fed up with how slow the discussion is going and call the other person. Three minutes later, you both have all the…
…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…
Just a short little post to follow up on the CNN article from a few posts ago and the story about VSee and telemedicine for disaster relief a few posts before that. First, there’s a new article in CNN today regarding CrisisCamp and the results of their weekend creating tools…
Ah, lighting. Never underestimate the importance of lighting in a video call. No matter whether you’re using VSee or Skype, Cisco or Polycom, the people you’re talking to want to see you. They don’t want to see… …which is lit mostly from the front. You’ll note that due to the smaller space I am…
You may have used VSee’s capability of sharing an application or the desktop, but did you know you can share just a specified region of the desktop? This can be especially useful when you are using an application such as PowerPoint and you want to show the slide but not…
Radiology Consultation at Stanford Hospital One of the major applications of real-time video is delivering expertise at a distance. There are few areas where this is more important than health care. We’ve been finding that quite a few of our customers are using video in health care applications that connect doctors…
The recent discussions here about how VSee simple desktop video conferencing compares to the traditional, room-based videoconferencing systems (Polycom, Cisco / Tandberg, LifeSize, etc.) got me to thinking about why the older systems are still so complex and difficult to deploy and use. The first videoconferencing systems were sufficiently large, expensive,…
