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…

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:…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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,…