It’s hard to think of many better environments to use video collaboration tools than in a college setting.  Not only for remote learning, but also for campus-dwellers themselves. Given the proliferation of computers on campuses, it may be more efficient for study groups to meet remotely because of the ease…

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…

If you read any tech news at all today, you read about Google Buzz.  ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, you name it (CNN), they wrote about it.  (Figures CNN’s headline mentions taking on Facebook…right when I start a full court Facebook blitz.  Dang.) Well, the reason I bring it up here isn’t to…

Randy Roberson is In Haiti today. We’ve mentioned Randy and his organization, HELP (Humanitarian Emergency Logistics & Preparedness), several times in the last couple weeks.  Well, I spoke to him yesterday while he was in a hotel on the Haitian border in the Dominican Republic.  I recorded some of the…

In this era of tighter travel budgets, there are still reasons to meet face-to-face, or so it says in an article in today’s New York Times, E-Mail Saves Time, but Being There Says More. The article quotes a hard-traveling lawyer about how sometimes one needs to do business in person:…

My dad’s a lawyer. Yes, we’ve heard all the jokes.  Heck, I like to tell them.  But I’m proud to say he’s one of the good ones. He’s also a good example of what I was writing about at the end of last week.  You know—that Hillary’s speech is a…

Wow.  Great speech. I recommend that everyone read this speech given by Hillary Clinton today. From a video collaboration and human-computer interaction standpoint, this is a watershed moment in politics.  There are plenty of articles already discussing the humanist message or how Google’s showdown with China changed the world and…

…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…

An article went up on CNN today about how many tech companies are meeting today in several cities across the US to brainstorm and coordinate rescue and relief efforts in Haiti.  It’s being hosted by the Sunlight Foundation, coordinated by CrisisCamp, and they’re using BarCamp to get the ideas out. …

Mr. Stein of Time recently wrote a post saying he dislikes video calls. Fortunately, I thinks he’s all wrong. His main arguments are that you lose the ability to zone out without getting caught when you make video calls, you can no longer multitask, and you lose the ability to…

The recent earthquake in Haiti and the ongoing tragedy has reminded me of the great responsibility of VSee and the industry as a whole to continue advances in disaster relief, search and rescue, and reconstruction. Now, we’ve worked with several agencies using VSee in its normal function of video conferencing…

It’s a bright New Year and we have exciting things happening here at VSee:  Borderless windows!  Easier sharing!  And more as the year continues! Just last month we released VSee v.1201, and let me tell you I think it’s a great step up from v.612. If you’ve already read our…

One of the most powerful features of VSee is the ability to meet with 2, 3 or up to 10 people (depending on bandwidth) and see them all simultaneously, each person in their own window. You have complete flexibility to position each window wherever you want, but sometimes you just…

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…

One fact of selling a service such as VSee is that the real value becomes apparent once one starts using the product. That’s the reason many companies in this space offer a free trial, typically for 14 or 30 days.  Others offer a free version with limited capabilities, with the…

If you’ve been wondering what the VSee development team has been up to for the past three months, download VSee 9.0.0.921. This release offers a host of improvements, including: New user interface Share button Streamlined setup Change password command Acoustic echo cancellation Vista New network layer Decrease in download size…

I’m on a 5 hour drive to Yosemite and I thought what a great time to get work done. So I’m sitting here in the passenger seat responding to email, working on projects, and having meetings with my co-workers. Does life get any more convenient than this?

Dan Cusick In my conversations with people who use VSee, I’ve been impressed with the breadth of applications, but a mainstay of our user base are organizations such as St. Mary’s Country Library in Maryland.  I recently spoke with Dan Cusick of the library’s IT department. The library has about…