The recent discussions here about how VSee simple desktop video conferencing compares to the traditional, room-based videoconferencing systems (Polycom, Cisco / Tandberg, LifeSize, etc.) got me to thinking about why the older systems are still so complex and difficult to deploy and use. The first videoconferencing systems were sufficiently large, expensive,…
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Being able to work from anywhere is extremely handy. I was able to work remotely during the day and vacation with my friends at night. (Sometimes way too late into the night) 🙂 However, working this way takes a lot of discipline. I have to admit that some days I…
This is me working at night from the Excalibur hotel. Our new slogan should be. “Why work from the office when you can work from Sin city!”
Working from vegas is working out great. (except for being tired) I had a customer meeting and we had a good conection. I also participated in a 6 person meeting and the only person I had trouble hearing was the person who was having a hard time with his internet…
It has come to my attention that I can truly work from anywhere, not just from the comfort of my own home. So tomorrow July 8th 2009 I am going to try to work from the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk from 1pm-3pm PT. I am going to be bringing my…
612 was released to all users today. Major changes include: – completely new application sharing engine – faster performance at lower bandwidth – new user interface for application sharing feedback – numerous GUI bug fixes – such as snapping window, etc. – new LDAP/AD module for enterprise deployments Our next…
Anyone who has been in the videoconferencing business for any length of time knows Elliot Gold, proprietor of TeleSpan Publishing Corporation. In his own words, he has been “the authoritative source for teleconferencing news and analysis” for over 25 years. So it was with some trepidation that Tom and I gave…
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.
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…
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…
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…
