World Refugee Day! Everything came together on time, at least on the technical front. (Hillary Clinton was scheduled to appear but fell and broke her elbow. Anderson Cooper had plane troubles). But Angelina Jolie was there and spoke live to the refugees in Chad via VSee. The rehearsal Pam Omidyar…
At an event marking the launch of activities for World Refugee Day on June 20, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie appeared today alongside UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres to call on the world to recognise millions of victims of conflict around the world not as a burden but…
Preparations are complete for Angelina Jolie and other notables to speak over a live video link this morning with the residents of the Djabal refugee camp in Chad. Here are some more photographs of the runup to UNHCR World Refugee Day.
It looks like all the infrastructure is up and running for the UNHCR World Refugee Day event tomorrow at the National Geographic Grosvenor Auditorium and online on Saturday. In order to provide a two-way video link from the officials and celebrities in the US and the refugees in Chad, and…
VSee and UN staff and volunteers are in Washington, DC, Mountain View, California, and Chad, preparing for World Refugee Day this Saturday, June 20, when they will use VSee over a satellite link to provide live video from the Djabal refugee camp in the eastern part of Chad. Yuen-Lin Tan,…
The following was recently posted by Rich on the VSee forum. Although I’ve not been posting much lately, I am a constant and enthusiastic tester of video conferencing applications. I’ve just completed some rather lengthy comparisons between some of the more common competitors. method: two network conditions (office LAN with…
In a recent paper in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, A randomized trial of virtual visits in a general medicine practice, Boston internists Ronald Dixon and James Stahl had patients see a doctor in person and via video link. While the patients prefered the in-person appointment, their satisfaction still…
Seen on a window of a furniture store in San Francisco:
O ASUS Eee PC 1000HE One of the advantages of using video and collaboration tools is the ability to work from anywhere in the world. VSee is so easy to set up and run that some people I know just carry a webcam with them and plug it in…
Unified Communications (UC) is a term that is often used and rarely defined. Everyone has heard of it and will tell you it is something they want, but such a statement reveals little about the problems they are trying to solve. However, it can be a point of departure for…
Now would be a good time to stock up on N95 respirators, tamiflu, and…webcams. Although the H1N1 pandemic may have abated for now, corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide have seen this event as a wakeup call and are assessingtheir level of preparedness for the next outbreak. Preparing for employees to…
Georgina Laidlaw wrote on Gigaom’s Web Worker Daily about 5 Things You’ll Miss by Not Working In An Office. More usefully, she also offered some coping strategies. Since most of the people at VSee spend more time working outside of the office than in it, we’ve developed a few strategies…
When people ask me how VSee compares to the other solutions in the marketplace, I’ll often say that VSee has the video quality of Polycom or Tandberg, the collaboration features of WebEx or Sametime, and the simplicity of Skype. I’ll stand by that analysis, but Skype does pretty well on…
GOC Gateway bridges the distance between the operations center and remote rigs Representatives of VSee customer Saudi Aramco and its solution partner Perfomix presented a paper today at the Society of Petroleum Engineers 2009 Digital Energy Conference. Entitled Operational Innovation with Real-Time Collaboration and Exception Management in Exploration & Production Industry, the…
It’s been almost four months now that I’ve been Chief Product Officer for VSee, a video conferencing and collaboration software and services that is based in Mt. View, California but is actually distributed around the globe. I’ll write at some future date about how our customers use VSee, but this…
Also posted at herot.typepad.com. One of the key elements is making a business relationship work is establishing trust. This is especially challenging when the parties are seperated geographically. Technologies such as videoconferencing can help, but the conventional wisdom is that these tools are useful for reinforcing an existing relationship but that…
Originally posted on my personal blog shortly after joining VSee as Chief Product Officer. Since I left Convoq, the web conferencing start-up here in Boston where I served as CTO, I’ve gotten a lot of calls from companies doing personal video communications products. Some were in the process of raising…
This article was originally posted on my personal blog, and was what started my discussions with VSee, resulting in my becoming Chief Product Officer there. Video conferencing has been a popular staple of science fiction at least since Flash Gordon‘s Spaceograph, 2001: A Space Odyssey‘s video call from the moon and,…
