17 posts tagged “web 2.0”

As posted at Web 2.0' Expo's website:

"Well, it's about {expletive deleted} time."
-Anil Dash, Blogger, Evangelist, Web 2.0 Expo Advisory Board member, and proud New Yorker, on the idea of a Web 2.0 Expo in New York

We agree. Web 2.0 Expo was launched to connect the builders of the web with the brightest minds, hottest ideas, and most valuable tools - and with each other. New York has long been where the world's biggest industries go online, and as Web 2.0 grows up and gets serious, the time is right to convene the East Coast web communities under the umbrella of the next generation web. It's time to come together to learn, share and network. And it's time to celebrate the size, power, and innovation of the East Coast web industry.

Read more and register to attend...

Robyn Greenspan, ExecuNet's Editor-in-Chief, recently wrote about telecommuting:

If you're already checking email from a mobile device, developing presentations on the weekends, and taking international calls during the night, why not take your remote accessibility one step further and regularly work from home? With technology advancing at the same pace that gas prices are increasing and environmental concerns are mounting, a couple of days per week at the home office can save time, money and the planet.

Back in 2006, when $10 bought roughly four gallons of regular gasoline, companies were already adjusting their benefits to accommodate for rising fuel prices. According to research conducted by WorldatWork through The Dieringer Research Group, 12.4 million Americans were allowed by employers to work from home at least one day per month — up from 9.9 million in 2005 — and a 2007 study from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) revealed that more than half of surveyed employers offered some form of telecommuting option. If employees worked from home just one-and-a half days per week, research from the University of Maryland found a cost savings of $4.5 billion annually (based on gas at $3.33 per gallon).

Web 2.0 services like Skype and Ring Central for voice communications, Yugma for web conferencing, and SiteSpeed, Eyejot, and Ekko.TV for video make it easy to work virtually.

At Web 2.0 Expo this week? Stop by booth #640 and get a demo of the new Yugma (Version 3). It's better than ever. Persistent, always one, super easy to use. It's way more than just simple desktop sharing. As described in their YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe9qU3H3LJk), it defines a new and easier way to get things done over the web -- call it "fluid collaboration."

It's really like two products in one. On one hand you can use it to present to people anywhere anytime without and need for a download. On the other hand, if you want to collaboration fully, as if everyone was working together around the same PC, then you download the java app. Runs on WIndows, Mac and Linux.

Buy One/Get One Free Promotion at Yugma (April only)

April 9, 2008 – With the recent launch of the new improved Yugma Version 3, Earth Day on April 22, and the upcoming Web 2.0 Expo conference (San Francisco) later this month, we’ve decided to celebrate the month of April with a generous “2-for-1 Promotion.”

Sign up to any Yugma Professional Account between now and the end of April and get another account for free, for the same term. This offer applies to all monthly and annual subscriptions as well as to all levels of Yugma Professional Service (from 10 all the way to 500). So for example, if you subscribe to five Professional-10 accounts for a year, we’ll give you five additional accounts for an entire year. In this example, you'll get Professional-10 accounts with everything you need for secure reliable real-time web conferencing and collaboration for only $497.50. That's an amazing value!

If you've been thinking about getting the entire team onto Yugma, now's the time. You’ll find that Yugma dramatically improves how your teams work, and what they can accomplish – all with less wear & tear from travel. It’s a radically easier to use real-time web collaboration service that works on Windows, Mac, and Linux and requires no training whatsoever.

Take advantage of the promotion today. In the US, just call Yugma at toll free 1-866-944-7920 (international dial +1-952-400-0357) and mention promo code “earth day.”

Yugma hosted the Microsoft/Linux Community "sit down" meeting yesterday, as planned. Leading up to the meeting, we invited Microsoft via post, fax, email and by submitting to their Executive Group center (and I followed up with various phone calls). We also invited many key stakeholders from across the Linux community including the Linux foundation, Free Software Foundation, Linux Journal, Red Hat, Bryan Peters of Show Us the Code movement, and numerous other Linux elitists. We posted blogs, issued a press release to let people know that the meeting was set for today as 12n PT, followed up with reminder emails, and phone calls, and reserved a Yugma online meeting to handle up to 500 attendees. The purpose was to collaboratively work to resolve issues related to the Show Us The Code topic. 

AND THEN... we had a very interesting and telling result. What do you think happened??? Can you hear the theme of the movie "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly " playing?

We recorded the meeting and will publish it within the next day or two. I'll follow up with the link.... I think you'll find it to be very interesting...

The Linux version of the Yugma free web conferencing service is available at the beta test site http://test.yugma.com/about/index.php (then click the DOWNLOAD button). It supports Red Hat Enterprise 4.0, Mandriva, Open SUSE, Fedora, Debian, Centos, and Ubuntu.

You are welcomed to test it out. Please let us know what you experience in this version (send comments to support[at]yugma[dot]com). The only caveat about the beta version on the test platform is that the servers and bandwidth is not the same level as available in our production service. Therefore, if you see slower performance, it’s due to the nature of the test platform.

We are planning to move the Linux compatible version (beta) of Yugma to the production site over the weekend.

The Yugma team had a great time at Web 2.0! We greatly appreciated the many people who stopped by! It was great meeting you all. We want to also thank all of the many individuals and companies that participated in our Stage 2 event we hosted at the Web 2.0 Expo. The Stage 2 event, we used our booth to become a virtual stage for companies and individuals who wouldn’t otherwise have had a presence at the Web 2.0 Expo. Thanks to:

• Aaron Greenspan, President & CEO of Think Computer Corporation: Think has created Exponent, which is an all-in-one CRM, accounting, and tax solution for small to medium-sized businesses that works entirely over the web, and integrates with your site.

• Phil Torrone, Senior Editor of MAKE Magazine, MAKE zinc: In addition to being Senior Editor of MAKE, Phil is also a contributing editor to Popular Science magazine. He will be demonstrating how to make a USB charger that fits inside an Altoids tin.

• David Coleman, Managing Director, Collaborative Strategies: This insightful presentation will take a high level view of how collaboration technologies have impacted the Web (or vice versa) and are helping to cause the second (and possibly third) economic bubble (Web 2.0).

• David Yu, CEO of MyUlist: MyUlist is a new social media center on campus where college students share news, post ads and get help.

• Michael McDerment, President & CEO of FreshBooks: FreshBooks delivers painless UnAccounting (TM) services like online invoicing and timesheets to teams, freelancers and service providers that helps them save time and look Fortune 500 professional. FreshBooks users report shorter payment collection periods, increased revenues and improved client satisfaction.

• Roger Courville, Principal of 1080 Group: Giant Killers: How Small Business Can Use Web Conferencing to Compete and Win. Even for local businesses thar are not global, there is no escaping the impact of a global economy. Level the playing field: learn the value drivers every business can use to win in a 2.0 world.

• David Annis, Co-creator Designer & Jason Striegel, Co-creator Developer at Meshly: The key features of Meshly will be presented, as well as how to interface with it and build communities.

• Adrian Ho, Partner at Zeus Jones: Web 2.0 Marketing. Using the Zeus Jones launch as an example, they will show ways that companies can use Web 2.0 tools to create more innovative and more effective marketing programs.

We're really glad to have hosted the Stage 2 event. We are planning now to turn Stage 2 into a recurring weekly forum with the focus on promoting and showcasing Web 2.0 companies and startups. Stage 2 will be a great place to promote your products, formally launch a new business, or share ideas of value to the Web 2.0 community. If you would like to submit your company to the Stage 2 schedule, please send an email with company name, web page, summary of business, topic to be presented, contact name and contact details and we will contact you shortly.

We just posted the schedule for Stage 2. Check it out at https://www.yugma.com/stage2/.

If you are at the Web 2.0 Expo, stop by booth #322 during the time posted. You can also attend virtually by clicking on “Join a Session” and using the Session ID noted for the presentation.

It's going to be great... "See you there!"

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Yugma is reaching out to Linux community and Microsoft for May 1 “Show Us The Code” deadline

[Note inserted on June 3: View youtube video to see what happened at the 5/1/2007 meeting.]

Yesterday, I issued an invitation to both the Show Us The Code and Microsoft communities regarding a virtual “sit down” for the May 1, 2007 deadline. Yugma’s web collaboration software would enable key players from both groups to join a live session and present their sides.

As many of you know, in a letter to Steven Ballmer, the Linux community has requested that individuals “Publicly pledge your support for Microsoft showing the public the code within Linux that violates their intellectual property by May 1st, 2007. “ Through an open invitation to key players and observers, we intend to provide a forum for each side to address the other.

We’ve been watching this movement and wondering what would materialize on May 1 to complete this debate. Since people all over the world may want to participate, we wanted to offer a solution that would work regardless of geographic location and platform. We’re hoping that we can be one of the catalysts to end this question of code ownership.

The full text of the letter follows:

OPEN LETTER TO: Linux Community & Microsoft

My name is Karel Lukas, and I'm the COO at a web collaboration company called Yugma. I've been following the Show Us The Code movement and Microsoft’s position closely, and understand how important this issue is for the future vitality of the Open Source and Linux communities.

As the May 1^st deadline approaches, we at Yugma have been wondering what the ultimate conclusion of this debate will be. Will it quietly fizzle out? Will Microsoft continue to press their case and ignore the challenge? As we are approaching the May 1^st deadline, we propose that we all collectively drive this debate to a proper conclusion.

Yugma is about to launch our Linux version, which will make our collaboration service interoperable between Linux, Mac, and PC. We think that makes us the perfect platform for hosting a virtual "sit-down" between the Show Us The Code movement and Microsoft on the day of the deadline.

For this event, we are offering to host a live debate between the Show Us The Code group and Microsoft on May 1^st. Microsoft can present the alleged offending code live. Leaders from the Linux community can respond. Yugma will record the session and make it available to both parties afterwards for their own distribution. The date, time, and meeting information follows:

Date/Time: May 1, 2007 at 12:00 Noon Pacific Time
Place: www.yugma.com (click Join Session button)
Teleconference Bridge: +1-218-486-3889
Yugma Session ID: 109-433-046

We think Yugma would be a great venue for educating more people (and the Tech press) about the Show Us The Code movement as well as Microsoft’s position. We are in the process of contacting key contacts within both organizations to identify the key participants for the event. Likewise, key contacts from the Linux community and from Microsoft can contact us at showusthecode@yugma.com This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it . We will be exhibiting at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco April 16-18. If any of you will be there, please stop by the Yugma booth and we can discuss in person (booth #322).