If you have your installation of VSee set for automatic update, you may have launched it to discover your GUI looks very different from a few days ago. That’s because we just released 726, which, in addition to many other improvements, includes a major overhaul of our already simplified interface…

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…

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…

If you’re a reader of this blog, you’ll notice the occasional nod to connecting customers to the back office.  (Here and here, if you need proof.) Today, I’ll ride ZDnet’s and IBM’s coattails* and point out how important it is to connect customers to the CORNER OFFICE and executive suite as well.…

Just last night we presented at theFunded‘s Founder Showcase.  I think we did a great job.  Although we didn’t win (the worthy winners were SnapShop and eVenues), we had many people coming up after and saying they thought we had the most impressive tech. Cool, huh? To SnapShop and eVenues…

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.…

Just before the weekend, we released 10.0.0.421.  This version has many significant enhancements over 104 and 1201, which I’d like to go over with you here. First, 421 has a completely refurbished video pipeline, making it more robust, consuming even less bandwidth than before, and with a higher quality of…

VSee has just been submitted to TheFunded Founder Showcase.  This release best explains it: TheFunded Founder Showcase, the leading seed-stage pitch and networking event taking place on May 18th in Silicon Valley, has just added DEMO as a prize partner. The Grand Prize Winner of the Founder Showcase will now win…

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…

Great stuff.  Thank you FedEx! Laughs aside, I feel this video actually brings up two counterintuitive but legitimate points: 1) The first is the current theme of my most recent posts:  Creating an illusion in your videoconference is simply not necessary or useful.  Heck, in this video it was outright…

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…

These are some great, important changes that for most of you, well, won’t change anything. 🙂  Feel free to peruse the new pricing and our forum announcement.  It becomes effective April 1st. Here’s the lowdown: For everyone who’s using VSee for personal use, it will continue to be free.  “But will…

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:

Here is a list of all of the other video conferencing providers we have found. Adobe Connect “Universal Voice: Enabling audio integration regardless of platform” Avistar “Integrated applications for unified collaboration” BoostCam “We provide free, instant, and disposable two-way video conferencing. It’s simple, fun, and doesn’t require installing any plugins,…

Here I was, taking a break from blogging to get some other high-priority work done, and then I read about Matthew “Lindy” Lindenmuth, entrepreneur, business owner, business student (and future law student), former professional inline skater and world-class snowboarder. He may not be in the Olympics, but this guy’s done the X…