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TokBox launched about two years ago and got good coverage on TechCrunch. It has turned out to be a great free (and hassle-free) video conferencing tool. I'm on the phone with clients and candidates all day... hey, it's a people business! It helps a lot when you can see who you are speaking with. So, I'm using it from time to time.
It used to be that you had to have the special video conferencing gear (or now the "Telepresence" gear from folks like Cisco, Polycom, Tandberg and others). The quality of the new HD systems is phenomenal. But for a small business such as ours, I don't need HD.
With TokBox, all you really need is two webcam equipped PC's. I'm also a big fan of Skype... but not everyone is a Skype user. That's what makes TokBox so handy. I can just give people my personalized ToxBox url (which is www.tokbox.com/TheTreviGroup) when I want to get into a video conference with them and that's it. No installs, no hassles (TokBox is all Flash based), no cost.
And for the social networkers out there... TokBox integrates nicely with all of the key sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Minneapolis, MN (PRWeb) April 4, 2007 -- Yugma (www.yugma.com), a free web collaboration service, will be exhibiting at the Web 2.0 Expo, being held in San Francisco, CA from April 15 through April 18, 2007. But that’s not all. Yugma invites you to be a presenter.
In addition to exhibiting, Yugma will transform booth #322 into a virtual stage. We believe good ideas deserve to be shared, regardless of the resources of their creators, and we’re creating an opportunity for people to do just that. The project is being called Stage 2, and we are currently seeking individuals and companies who wouldn't otherwise have a presence to share their content with physical and virtual attendees at Web 2.0.
If you have content to share (best practices, innovative idea, new invention, product or service), please visit http://www.yugma.com/stage2 to read more information about participating. Please respond quickly, as time and space are limited.
About Yugma, Inc.
Yugma provides the ability for people to connect on-demand and real-time with friends, family, clients or employees whether they are across the city, nation or even globe. Share your content and ideas through Yugma’s easy to use, cross-platform, secure and reliable collaboration service. Yugma, Inc. is a privately held venture-backed company headquartered in Minnesota, USA, and has offices in Minneapolis and India. Yugma earns revenue through its premium services. For more information, visit www.yugma.com.
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Lisa McCue
Yugma
+1-952-698-1144
Attention all Yugma members: We've just upgraded our Free Teleconference Service. The new release allows all users to use a wide range of new and advanced features such as
- mute/unmute individual or all attendees
- increase/decrease volume
- lock/unlock conference call
- hear the number of participants on the call
- a list of the touch-tone commands can be found at https://www.yugma.com/about/confrencecall.php
Yugma's Teleconferencing Service is free of charge to all Yugma members, regardless of whether you are signed up for the Yugma FREE service or Yugma Premium service. It can be reached at telephone number by using traditional telephones and new VoIP services. (Only standard long distance rate applies, as billed by your telephone company.)
Special Note: Yugma members can now also use the Free Teleconference Service on a standalone basis (without running a Yugma web session at the same time). This can be done by dialing the Teleconference Service telephone number and then simply entering any unique 9 digit number when you are prompted by the system for your Yugma Session ID. When doing this, always avoid repeat numbers (e.g., 555 555 555) or sequential numbers (e.g., 123 456 789), as they are not secure.
In the last three months, since our official launch of Yugma, people around the world have found an infinite number of applications for it. Yugma's on fire! Over 50 thousand users in over 75 countries have used Yugma. Since Yugma is super easy, universal, and cost effective (e.g., free-forever basic version, and premium version is 75% less than WebEx and Gotomeeting), people are using Yugma for everything from business, education, and in their online communities. Everyone is finding Yugma and the new Yugma widget to be must-have utility apps.
Here is just a sample of the exciting things people are saying:
We at Yugma send a big "thank you" to the entire Yugma community for spreading the word about Yugma.
I love speaking with members of the Yugma community (www.yugma.com). I always ask them "What brings you our way?" I get very consistent answers. They like what we've done to eliminate the complexities and costs of collaborating with others using the web. They like Yugma because it's fast, easy, truly real-time, cross platform, and saves them over 75% on their monthly bills. I also get to hear their web collaboration "war stories" after using the "other guys" for a couple of years. About how long it takes to set up their sessions, how clunky the "other guy's" interface has gotten... that Mac's could not present to Windows users.... that they couldn't share mouse/keyboard for real-time interaction with others (for joint editing of documents, spreadsheets, powerpoints).... that the "other guy's" service dropped sessions half way on a rather frequent basis. Well, I really sympathize with them.
All I can say is "Welcome to Yugma!"
Yugma has joined with other companies like Google and Level 3 to sponsor the upcoming Freedom to Connect Conference (F2C) scheduled for March 5-6, 2007 in Washington, D.C. F2C is a meeting of people engaged with Internet connectivity and all that it enables. This year, the theme of F2C is how universal connectivity and the plunging capital requirements of information production are changing our fundamental economic and social assumptions. David Isenberg produces the event and has pulled together an great roster of industry leaders and policy making.
I spoke with David a couple of weeks ago. He mentioned how "Yochai Benkler help set the theme for this year's event with his powerful hypothesis that lowering the capital requirements of information production
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reduces the value of proprietary strategies and makes public, shared information more important,
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encourages a wider range of motivations to produce, thus demoting supply-and-demand from prime motivator to one-of-many, and
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allows large-scale, cooperative information production efforts that were not possible before, from open-source software, to search engines and encyclopedias, to massively multi-player online games."
Benkler's hypothesis really resonated with me. When more people can connect and collaborate, more cost effectively and with greater ease, very interesting and innovative things happen. For example, I heard from a lawyer last week who was using Yugma to review and review complex contracts in real-time with his global clients. He said "10 emails over 10 days" was reduced to "10 minutes." Amazing.
Since our launch in December, we’ve worked non stop on continuously enhancing and improving Yugma (www.yugma.com). We’ve now officially dropped the Beta tag from our logo. A key focus in all of our development work has been making Yugma the easiest, fastest, and most cost effective way for people around the world to collaborate on line. This past weekend, we rolled out an MS Outlook Toolbar and an advanced proxy handler (for those of you on larger corporate networks) -- all geared at making web collaboration as easy as possible. That way you can focus on sharing your ideas with others regardless of locations, platforms, applications, browsers, and budgets.
But the work continues literally around the clock. In the coming days you will see some very exciting and very powerful new features. And most importantly, they will be really easy to use. I don't want to pre-announce anything... So please stay tuned!
