17 posts tagged “interwix as”

it is time to add video messaging to our planets ´repertoire of communication methods, we have had television and cinema for many years now to distribute live and recorded motion picture; the advent of true broadband (20 Mbps should suffice as a measure worldwide) makes it possible to stream images at 24 fps over the internet

nice clean hollywood quality video ... two recent movies feature video conferencing .. 1408 and transformers .. yeah sure we used to have the " beam me up scotty " variety of what now in retrospect looks like utter nonsense ...

to me when a brand or a way of doing things makes it into the movies it is officially the generations choice, the generations attitude and voice, when video conferencing made it into the two movies 1408 and Transformers it captured perfectly the nature of the emotional quality of human interaction via video;

What value do in-line Instant Messaging and Video Conference and Collaboration Systems like Instant Web Meetings add to an enterprise ?

Instant Web Meetings is different from all other " Video Conferencing and Collaboration " systems on the market today in that it is an entirely modular, web based service where a user can access his / her account from any PC / Mac / Linux machine via a web browser or as an integrated part of a network, desktop or web based software / service / system or web - site even ...

ie. IWM (Instant Web Meetings) consists of 3 distinct layers :

1. the User Interface that handles authentification and File Exchange, WhiteBoard, Slide Shows, Quiz, Notes, Remote Dekstop & Application Access, access to Google Docs and Maps and Payment Gateway
2. the SOAP layer that transfers data to and from the Database layer / Datastorage
3. the PHP or . NET layer responsible for data manipulation on the User Control Panel level
4. the Data layer which can be a web-farm based Oracle DB, a SQL - web based database or a " fixed " network based SQL - data storage, flat -files, etc.

all other services that currently offer similar communication services do so by non-modular design that binds UI to event handling to data-transfer and storage into one singular non-discrete entity

that is difference number 1,

# 2 is - since the login and login Interface is XML aware IWM can not only be deployed like a RSS button or a " widget " that displays information and a login interface - eg. the Google search widget, or the technorati widget (code expression as seen below)

thus a piece of text, in-line in an article, like - click here to speak to the author makes it possible for readers to discuss the article immediately with the author(s),

or a link in the menu bar of the Service section of your website reading Online Help Desk can not only connect customers, suppliers and OEM directly to your service staff but unlike any other IM environment makes it possible to work collaboratively within the security of the browser over a 128 or 256 - bit SSL connection.

you may choose to use such free IMs as SKYPE or Yahoo or MSN IM but these operate over open internet lines and are thus not secure, your data can be stolen or worse lost,

the greatest advantage of the IWM method of implementation is that it uses TCP / IP for all connection and transmission processes, TCP / IP , unlike UDP processes used by most other VOIP or collaboration and video - conferencing services / softwares, is a reliable transmission protocol that ensure data integrity and delivery,

TCP does suffer from the inherent latency of open internet traffic but it ensures that the data / voice / video will not be lost in transmission because it is a state-aware / connection aware protocol that requires sender and receiver to confirm dispatch and receipt

UDP is faster because it has no state awareness (ie. of the connection was cut a UDP based system would not recognize this) and does not need to keep track of dispatch and receipt and just continues streaming even if and when data is lost in between or at either end,

What is the real-world use of IWM being on TCP / IP and not UDP ?

1. because UDP is stateless a lost voice or video packet cannot be retrieved, UDP just assumes that the packet was delivered correctly,and moves on to the next part of the stream ( this however does allow UDP to transmit data with least delay ), this means that UDP is not a reliable, guaranteed service but just a fast one
2. business applications need the relaibility, stability and security that TCP / IP offers and this is why IWM is on TCP / IP
3. because IWM runs on TCP / IP, voice transmission is entirely dependent on network connections speeds,
   
4. because voice transmission is an integral part of IWM, you dont have the additional overhead of paying for a phone - call
5. this extreme reliability makes IWM perfect for ad - hoc communication, ie. if you are at a kiosk in an airport, otherwise in transit or not at your normal work PC and need to talk to the service department of a hotel, airline, PC producer, software manufacturer / supplier, have a hardware problem you need solved, select and pay for a service where you need pre-purchase consultation the best solution now is to call a hotline and wait for an answer (which you pay for or to use a PHP / PERL based text chat which may not be able to completely offer you all the information you need - brochures, schematic diagrams, user manuals etc.)IWM meets this need adroitly - you place a link on your web site that asks potential customers to click on it and be connected to a live service engineer standing by, when connected -- the engineer can pass on files to you - brochures, user manuals, help guides, FAQs, even play videos of installation, repair, use which you can in turn download for own storage and use
   - you pay nothing for this service, the provider of the information pays a nominal 15 cents (or thereabouts per minute for their use of IWM)
   - you an access this from any PC, Linux or MAc computer even if it is not yours ie. since IWM needs no downloads to connect and be used it is as easy to use as going up to a public telephone and making a call, only this time your calling collect
6. YOU CAN CONNECT TO IWM JUST LIKE LOGGING ON TO HOTMAIL or accessing a regular website, because IWM needs no download install routines to be completed before you can connect to your target party, and no firewall or router ports need be specially configured to allow access, all parties can connect to IWM and thus to each other just like accessing awebsite with a username and password so if 8 users all access the same URL with correct authentification they can all meet,
7. IWM uses ISO 9001 standard port 80 ( for TCP / IP ) and 443 for SSL from Verisign giving it the same security as any international bank or payment transaction site like paypal

iPhone and unnecessary hype

Thursday, 12. July 2007, 10:15:50

atul abraham, , instant web meetings.com online video conferencing
look at this from scoble - he has turned the iPhone - essentially an utter peice of trash that does not even yet support FLASH this gadget is getting a lot of press, like that bimbo paris hilton has she said / written / sung anything intelligent ? is she famous for being self-made ? did she find a cure for an epidemic ? did she / does she raise money for the poor and needy ? negative, yet she gets reams and gigbytes of press -

now im not an Apple hater or a hilton hater, i just wonder what it will take the US to figure out that its making a lot of noise and spending a lot of money on a gadget that is pretty much old hat in the EU and in Japan and Korea

no 3 G coverage ? cant change the battery ? looks good ? is from apple ? get real ?

im writing this as i watch live earth broadcast on msn and i see the writing on the wall

• if we dont wise up NOW to the dangers of climate change, all that we have built until now will have to be sacrificed to .. but im no conservation evangelist iw ill just do what i can in my life
• the second sentence on the wall is - how do you switch from london to hong kong to johanessburg in the space of 10 minues ? you use video feeds over IP
• like this
  
• live feed, recorded feed - streamed to your cellphone, PDA, laptop, set-top box, desktop,
  
• which you can then share wil other immediately like im trying to do now,
  
• which you can use in your daily life as coversation peices, information, research, communication, collaboration, conferencing
• the primary purpose of imaging is not the excitement of moving pictures but the subsequent, underlying, adjacent, related and productive information around it
• if busiensses move fast enough to embrace video links, travel can be cut by over half, thats an average of over 1000 million per year
• money we could all pledge to help preserve our planet ?
  

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this is the warner bros. web site for the 1998 flick you ´ve got mail

today a movie website looks like this

as we see somethings dont change but some things do, they havent stopped making sappy movies but the kind of websites used to promote them havechaneged dramatically

but this post isnt even about movies, it is about collaboration software like IWM and how back in 1988 e-mail was considered the definitive kool, while today well e-mail is a bother, not a tool

today mail comes bundled with collaborative work spaces that grant access rights to online resources, shared schedulers, access to conferencing resources, they are sometimes linked to blogs, photo and video sharing services,

mail or atleast a way to update people in your user group is now being integrated into mashups and twitter like applications

facebook has its message board and flyers and walls, so is the e mail finally dead ?

yes, it does look like e - mail is definitely been overtaken by collaboration services that include instant messaging and even instant file transfer ombined with ability to leave notes and store them in blogs and forums means that what people will soon be firing up soon as they sit down at their PC will be this
and not this

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get your instant web meetings collaboration and conferencing system free BETA trial accounts

Jun 14, 2007 in interwix portal systems, instant web meetings, collaboration and conferencing software, atul abraham, web 2.0

pls go here and sign up with a valid mail id and get a free 28 day Business BETA trial account of instant web meetings collaboration and conferencing system (80 USD value) or a 21 day Private User BETA trial account,

(pls make sure you provide a valid mail id cos you will need to verify it)

once activated you get these features on unlimited use,

a further quick run down of the system is here

have fun !

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• google serves 2 billion plus searches a day as of Feb 2004, today it is probably two or even three times that - that means effectively that could could well be serving 2 billion plus advertisements per day,

the frequency and randomness that the searches take place are not google controlled but google collect those stats providing consultation to advertisers and publishers on how best to optimise their adspend -

google as made itself indispensable as a repository of tags and keywords, the mothod of how we organise ourselves in this world and thus the world around us

google has a map of how people interact with each other, what the realtionships are and how they evolve,

google is not a static entity but a dynamic one that we, the users are shaping, it is a snapshot of our planet

as it organises our sights, sounds, ideas, memories it would do well to offer us ways - news, social networking, services, to then share these conveniently with others either commercially or non commercially and also remember " trivialties " for us so we can find new ways t use google that can then lead to more new goodies offered the Big G -

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