Wow. The last couple days have been full of news and it’s time to write about it! Let’s take a look at some of the most interesting headlines for videoconferencing and discuss the implications: Skype, which keeps claiming to be a business conferencing tool but isn’t, hired Tony Bates to…
VC Opinion
This was a very interesting post Michael Arrington put up on TechCrunch yesterday. I myself am guilty of a one of the sins: I have a two-sentence limit on my IMs before I hit enter and continue…but I’ll explain myself at the end. The points he makes are very good…
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…
Why do iPads do so well despite being underpowered as computers? Why does Netflix do so well regardless of only TV and movie media offerings? Why do Kindles do so well when all they do is display and annotate books? What these three things have in common is that they…
It may not be official, but if you’ve been suspicious that people in their twenties and younger aren’t picking up their phones, you’re right. There’s a ton of anecdotal evidence to support this (such as this recent ZDnet article). I started really thinking about this two years ago when I…
by and posted for Christina Milton, VSee’s CEO, personally hosted our visitors, speaking to them a great deal about his personal experience, start-up life, and VSee. They were also pleasantly surprised to meet our interns from Singapore, Penny and Kenny. At the same time, a demo of VSee had them…
Believe it or not, you act differently when you’re on a phone call. And different from that on video. Oh, and you reply differently via chat. And why did you respond that way in email? Folks, it’s not news, but the medium informs the communication. Obviously we think everyone should…
The discussions of the last three posts, while important to all organizations of any size, are probably most important for startups. The big guys can more easily survive a misstep in these areas. A case in point: Microsoft has taken a decade to slowly drop in esteem amongst business as…
Yesterday I commented on the ZDnet article What CEOs really want — and how IT can provide it, by Joe McKendrick, and jumped beyond the context of the article for a more literal meaning of “CEOs Want Customer Intimacy.” Today I stay within the confines of their context, but also get…
SaaS (“Software as a Service” and pronounced “sass”) and Cloud Computing have been all the blog rage lately. To be honest, rightfully so. I personally remember when Best Buy and Circuit City (Who?) had racks and racks of software, distributed on CDs or floppies, in paperboard boxes the size of…
Every day I have at least one conversation that revolves around using VC (“video conferencing” or “video collaboration”) to “get things done” rather than “meet”. Obviously efforts to increase acceptance of putting video collaboration tools where they’re most beneficial are gaining traction. For example, I know of at least one…
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…
