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Meeting24.tv: video conferencing with quick setup, but lots of lag

by Jay Hathaway Apr 6th 2009


Meeting24.tv is a great idea in theory. It's sort of a Yahoo! Live-style video chat (remember Yahoo! Live?), where you can have up to 24 people in a meeting at once. There's a big upside to the service: it's free, it's easy to use, and it doesn't require signup for anyone but the host of the meeting. The downside is that you might run into major lag. When I tested the service, each user's audio and video was lagging by several seconds.

A free account comes with the ability to host a meeting room for 24 hours at a time. The time limit is basically irrelevant, because the number of rooms you can start isn't limited, so you can get around it by starting over. I'm not sure I'd use Meeting24.tv for an actual meeting, as the ability to throw illustrated heart icons at other people is a bit unprofessional.

Tags: chat, meeting24, meeting24.tv, video, videoconferencing

Filed under: Internet, Video, Office, Web services, Google

Google enters the video conferencing market

by Brad Linder Apr 20th 2007

Marratech
Google has purchased Swedish video conferencing company Marratech, possibly with the goal of adding a video conferencing application to Google Pack or Google Apps.

Unlike several competing video conferencing applications, Marratech requires a desktop download. Clients are available for PC and Mac users. This would hardly be the first desktop application from Google, which already offers the Google Desktop search program and the Picasa picture organizing software.

But it would also be interesting to see Google tie video conferencing into its online office suite, allowing users to discuss documents, spreadsheets, and presentations all from a single web-based interface.

No word on when Google will launch its video conferencing application or how much it will resemble Marratech's current offering.

Tags: marratech, video conferencing, VideoConferencing

Filed under: Video, Macintosh, Blogging, Yahoo!, Freeware, VoIP, Social Software

Mac VoIP/Video tools: new features just keep comin'

Macby Ted Wallingford Sep 30th 2006

With all the hoopla surrounding video in recent weeks, thanks to the video-centric Fall VON trade-show in Boston, it's no surprise that the folks making VoIP communications tools for the Mac have embraced video-conferencing. Since I did a head-to-head comparison of the four major VoIP communication tools for Macworld back in July, so much has changed. The video has gotten better and easier--so easy, in fact, that MTV's Total Request Live has made one of these sweet tools a part of its regular broadcast arsenal, allowing viewers of the show to interact with via TRL's famous video wall--and it's not Skype.

All of these tools are free downloads, and all of these tools have been around a while.

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Tags: sightspeed, skype, video, videoconferencing, voip

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