One of the highlights of life at VSee is the annual wakeboarding trip at Don Pedro Lake, which was just this past weekend. We rent a houseboat and pack as many people into it as is advisable and then set off with a whoop and a holler. This year we…
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Eight years ago when a friend told me about her coworker who lived 3 or 4 hours away from their company and worked from home most of the week, I was astounded. Now I’m in an even more extreme situation, living a couple of thousand miles away from company headquarters…
Summary: VSee user Dr. Russell E. Brown shares how VSee has helped him successfully practice telepsychiatry. Last week I got to speak with neurologist and psychiatrist, Dr. Russell E. Brown from Atlanta, Georgia. He is the Program Director of Avenia Behavioral Management and works with elderly patients suffering from such issues…
Summary: Mirror neurons may be the key to explaining why it’s so important to see people for social interactions. With the remote work revolution seriously getting underway, a recent article from Knowledge @ Wharton Today reminds us that remote workers may be losing more knowledge than we know from the…
Last week, Milton, Yuen-lin, Julio, and Casey attended the big Primerica convention at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. It’s like the mother of all conventions with exciting speakers, exhibits, and over 60,000 in attendance –a great opportunity to show off VSee’s impact and versatility as a sales tool.
There are many historical time lines of videoconferencing on the Internet. A nice one is from an earlier post on this very blog. Most of these histories identify the AT&T ikonophone as the first working video phone. Although a milestone in its own right, it was not the first videophone…
Former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry and current Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Ash Carter visited the VSee office. They were there to attend a meeting with Milton, who was away on a business trip, over VSee High-Definition Video Calling with Application Sharing. Visit the VSee…
Last September, Frost & Sullivan came up with a new way to measure the “collaborativeness” of visual collaboration technology. It looks like a plug for Magor Telecollaboration dressed in pseudo-scientific language to me; but, it does suggest a quantitative way of analyzing whether a collaborative product is worth its return…
Over the last few weeks of working at VSee, I’ve been realizing that VSee is more than just a videoconferencing tool. It’s a video collaboration tool. Of course, it can do the things that videoconferencing does, but on a much more dynamic and work-friendly scale. It’s the difference between a…
Milton was invited to lunch with Doug Rand last weekend. Doug Rand is the Advisor to the White House Office of Science and Technology and the architect of Startup America.
“Boredom is necessary for creativity” —Genevieve Bell, Intel Fellow
Milton discussed in some earlier posts the importance of smiling and eye contact in facilitating video mediated communication. At the heart of these issues is the issue of building video trust. The Research On Video Trust The good news is that according to video trust studies, people using only video…
This was made possible by two of our very own, Yuen-Lin Tan and Eric Angel, who spend their free time volunteering for i-ACT (Interactive Activism). Yuen-Lin Tan joined the i-ACT team in 2005, answering founder Gabriel Stauring’s call for assistance with the technological aspects of the first i-ACT mission to Chad.…
Yesterday while I was at a conference Skype announced on their blog that they were dropping the ‘beta’ label from their Mac release, and that group calling would now be a paid feature. Obviously, I had to respond. 🙂 I have a lot of fun talking about Skype because I…
