Vivu plugs multiparty video into Skype for Windows

$10 a month gets you multiparty video conferencing, screen/application sharing, browser and phone access for your guests, and video broadcasting. Vivu's VuRoom for Skype plugs-in to your Windows and Mac Skype clients. VuRoom launches your session using the Skype client. Vivu notifies your invitees to your call through a Skype chat. They can launch into the room through their own copy of VuRoom or click on a link to the browser version. Your meeting uses Skype's encrypted, high quality audio channel.  Here's a flash demo, an offer for a 15 day trial account, and details on subscribing to VuRoom.

Vivu isn't the first company to offer multiparty video for Skype, but their timing is excellent. Hundreds of millions of Skype users now appreciate video calling, paving the way in customer appreciation and behavior. This plug-in helps Vivu extend its market reach to Skype's large user base and builds on the love and trust people have for the Skype brand.

Vivu's core business is hosting webcasts, some with ten thousand attendees, and virtual meeting rooms. It's a highly competitive space: Apple iChat, iVisit, MeBeam, Paltalk, PeerMe, SightSpeed, ooVoo, ekko, TokBox, Dimdim, and WebEx are prominent in supporting multiple parties in video chat as part of the meetings.

Skype could easily target this market segment as it turns to business markets. Will Skype compete with partners like Vivu for customer attention, as they have with one-to-one video calling software partners and with desktop sharing software partners?

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Tip: Include Skype Calls in Your Ustream Broadcast (Mac)

This instructional video is courtesy of lockergnome. Ustream.tv lets you broadcast a live video over the web. Here's how to add Skype calls to your show with a Mac and Audio Hijack Pro.

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CES2010: Skype for Television

The user interface is very similar to the ASUS video phone. I'll have more for you from CES tomorrow. For now, here's their blog post, the @skypeonyourtv twitter page, and text from Skype's news release:

Skype-enabled Televisions

Skype is already renowned for popularizing video calling and bringing people closer together through rich, real-time communication. With Skype embedded into Internet-connected HDTVs, the company is creating a new experience that will allow people to communicate from the comfort of their living rooms.

The new HDTVs will deliver familiar Skype features including:

• Free Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls
• Calls to landline or mobile phones at Skype’s low rates
• The option to receive inbound calls via a user’s online Skype number
• Skype voicemail, if it is set up
• Being invited to participate in voice conference calls with up to 24 other parties
• Support for up to 720p HD video calls, depending on the availability of high-speed broadband
• and a HD webcam

At CES, Skype announced partnerships with LG and Panasonic to offer Skype–enabled HDTVs. Skype software will be embedded into Panasonic’s line of 2010 VIERA CAST-enabled HDTVs and LG’s 26 new LCD and plasma HDTVs with NetCast Entertainment Access™. Both lines are expected to be available in mid-2010. Both LG and Panasonic will offer specially-designed HD webcams that are optimized for Skype video calls as separate accessories that can be plugged into the televisions.

These webcams support 720p HD and include special microphones and optics that can pick up sound and video from a couch-distance.

“The popularity of Skype video calling has increased substantially in recent years with an average of 34% of Skype-to-Skype calls now including video,” added Silverman. “For many people who are video calling on Skype, they have expressed a desire to communicate with their friends and family from somewhere comfortable, and preferably on a big screen. Logically, this led to the development of Skype embedded on HDTVs.”

Skype recommends uninterrupted high-speed broadband of at least 1 Mbps symmetrical bandwidth to achieve 720p HD-quality video calls on either a PC or television.

For more information about Skype-enabled televisions, please visit skype.com/go/TV or view a demonstration during CES at the Panasonic (Central 9405) or LG (Central 8205) booths.

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CES2010: Skype 4.2 supports 1280 x 720 HD video calls

I have good news and bad news from Las Vegas.

The good news: Skype for Windows 4.2 Beta will triple your screen resolution from High Quality 640x480 to 720p HD 1280 x 720. Download the Beta now (full install). You'll need a 1 Mbps connection between the two callers. You'll also need a new HD webcam and PC with a 1.8 GHz dual-core processor.

The bad news in three parts:

First, it's just for Windows now. No word on when the Mac or Linux versions will support HD.

Second, HD webcams that will support Skype HD video aren't shipping. The first ones will ship in March from faceVsion (the FV TouchCam N1) and from Skype's close partner, In Store Solutions (Freetalk HD PRO and Freetalk HD PRO PLUS). They will be available through Skype.com.

Last, Skype has not published open specifications for webcam manufacturers, explaining how to design for and integrate with Skype. So hundreds of webcam makers won't be able to meet public demand from Skype users. It's still who-you-know business at Skype.

faceVsion will offer demos of its upcoming webcams at the Palazzo during CES.

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2009: The Year even Clooney lost out to Video Communications.

Guest post by Larry Lisser, the man behind the Telephony2Market blog, instigator of the first Startup Camp Telephony Edition (21 January 2010, Miami), and an Emerging Communications Conference alum. He's the go-to consultant for helping emerging communications startups position, package and get to market growth.

Recently, I made the obligatory trip to George Clooney's latest movie, 'Up in the Air.' Predictable results followed: Clooney played the same guy he often does and my wife was just happy to have watched his pretty face on the big screen for two hours. What I didn't expect was to see how central video communications was to the story line. This got me thinking.

There can be little debate that the year 2009 was the best yet for video communications. After years of false starts (i.e. before widespread broadband) and then a somewhat remarkably slow start even once its quality issues were no longer, video found its legs this year. Indicators of video's accelerating market momentum were everywhere, coming at us in the forms of mainstream media coverage, viral user base growth and of course M&A activity.

The acquisition roster proved to be the strongest evidence yet. By the time the year was done, we counted three buyers and four deals with bets aimed squarely on the future of video over IP communications. Grand total: in excess of $6B. No small bets by the buyers of Tandberg, Skype, LifeSize and SightSpeed (in order of transaction size).

Now back to Clooney. He played a hired grinch; someone who traveled the world every week to deliver pink slip news on behalf of his firm's corporate clients. Early in the plot, an upstart member of his own head office team tried to re-write his playbook though - and eliminate travel expenses - by introducing video as a means to fire people from afar.

Clooney pushed back (charmingly, of course), professing that what he did for a living required in-person communications and could not be done as effectively by camera. I'll let you discover the rest at the movies, but suffice to say that I came away with a few year-end revelations about video:

1. What we once thought to be the obvious and pervasive applications for video (i.e. travel replacement), may not end up being the ones that spur exponential growth. Think video as a component of a process and not just as an advanced form of communications.
2. The video enabled call center is coming. Actually, it's already here but few of us have experienced it real-time. Imagine for a moment the difference in empathy you and an agent might exchange during a heated customer service conversation about a canceled flight - if you were looking at each other.
3. I'm shifting terminology from 'Video-Conferencing' to 'Visual Communications'. The former has become too limiting. Conferencing implies just that, while visual communications can and will mean so much more.

So the year ends with bankers, end-users, the media and now Hollywood having told us that 2010 and beyond hold much more than just promise for video communications. As Andy Abramson put properly into context for us this week, if VoIP was the industry of the decade, the next ten year will belong to video over IP. Or Visual Communications, if you prefer.

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Gifts for the Skype crowd

Gear: The Better to Hear and See All Year Long

Cute 3-D Webcam from Minoru. For the friend who wants even more than Skype's High Quality and considers 3D glasses the height of fashion. Cheerful, stereoscopic, and works wonderfully with Skype. Minoru videos on YouTube (and wear your 3D specs). Review. Amazon. $89/£50/€80.

Point 2 View (P2V) USB camera. Skype in-focus close-ups in your video call. You show the grandkids your stamp collection, they show you the bugs they found in the back yard. Armature stand included. Review, Overview, Gallery, FAQ, Tech specs, Downloads. Ipevo Store. Amazon.

Touch Screen Videophone from ASUS. The ASUS SV1TS gets the PC out of the way of Skype video. You drop it in the kitchen or living room, plug in the power cord, connect the Wi-Fi, touch the screen, and talk. Large, clear picture. Amazon. $230.

MXL AC-405 USB personal computer speakerphone. Absolutely the best audio quality anywhere near this price from Maxell, world experts in microphone engineering. The AC-405 shares technology with their high-end music and television studio microphones. Amazon. $55.

Freetalk Wireless Stereo Headset. Still one of the best for looks, quality, comfort and ruggedness. More than five hours of talk time and even then it works while recharging. I use it daily without tripping over cables. Review. Amazon. Skype store. $80.

Software: To Record and Share

Vodburner records Skype video calls on Windows. The Vodburner Beta includes easy editing software (see screenshot below) that automatically switches the shot between the two of you depending on who is speaking. Publish meetings, interviews, and training sessions on the web. A subscription runs $9.95 (USD) monthly.

Pamela Professional Edition, the Skype Assistant. Proven software with built in voice mail, birthday reminders, and in-call sound effects. Like Vodburner, it records calls but without an audio or video editor. An all around utility kit for Windows Skype users. I've been using Pamela for many years. PamSoft. €19,95.

Skype Journal Video Grooming Kit:

Teeth: Rembrandt 2-Hour Whitening Kit. Whiter teeth take years off. Feel free to smile.

Hair: Kent White Bristle Hair Brush for those stray hairs. (Ah, I remember the days when I had hair on the top of my head worth brushing.)

Inspection: Jerdon First Class Mirror so you know you look good and bounce a little light your way. See yourself the way others see you.

Skin: Avon mark Cheat Sheet Shine-Blotters to remove oils from your face that shine in the light. (I always thought it was a reflection off my eyeglasses that blinded viewers, but it was the glare from my forehead. )

Wardrobe: Everyone looks better on camera in a clean, dark blue shirt: Soffe Men's Base Layer Long Sleeve Crew Tee. White clothing creates glare and throws off your camera's sensors. Keep a clean, dark and solid top by your desk for the unexpected Skype call.

Lights: Natural light makes you look marvelous. I use the Verilux Original Natural Spectrum Deluxe Desk Lamp, so the camera can see my face. (Despite requests to turn it off.)

Lens: Keep your webcam lens clear with the Nikon Complete Lens Cleaner Kit or the LensPEN Lens Cleaning System. (This doesn't seem to help me: I always turn out smudged no matter how clean the webcam.)

Holiday Skype calls unite families

Telephones bring families together at holidays. We make room at the dining table for a laptop, a Skype window between two homes.

Thanks to Barry Silver for the beautiful photo with the Moses family: Shankar, Manakshi, Sita Chan, and Umba. cc-by. You can see Barry's reflection in the screen and his picture in the lower left corner of the Skype window.

Skype set up Asia-Pacific USO centers with Skype credits and webcams for soldiers and sailors calling home. Stop by to Skype home at USO Guam, USO Japan in Yokosuka, USO Okinawa, or USO Korea in Seoul. I'm sure you already know the international date line and time zone differences.

P.S. Does anyone make wide-angle or panoramic webcams?

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IPEVO P2V Point 2 View USB Camera Review

Guest post by Howard Chang, AmperorDirect, Houston, Texas.

I received the new Point 2 View (P2V) USB camera sample from IPEVO recently. The P2V is indeed designed with interesting concepts. The most eye-catching part is the white, elegant long-neck webcam stand. IPEVO, did you get the idea from Pixar's iconic long-neck lamp?

Its main body looks very similar to IPEVO's old POV webcam, which includes a camera capable of taking extreme close up shots (within 2 inches), and comes equipped with a snapshot and a force focusing button. The major change from the previous version is that P2V is now an auto-focusing only device. It has removed the manual focusing adjustment knob on the webcam. To a control-freak like me, it is somewhat non-desirable. However, with the auto-focusing technology available today, it should not create any issues with using the device. Besides, there is a switch on the main body which tells the P2V to work in the "continuous focus adjusting" or a "focus once and use the same setting later" mode. It is still smart enough, and can adapt to different applications.

I want to focus on two very cool features in this P2V review: "true point 2 view ability" and "realizing eye-to-eye contact in a video chat." I believe they are the important factors that make the P2V stand out from the over-crowded Logitech and Microsoft webcam sea.

True Point 2 View Ability

As the name suggests, P2V is a true point 2 view webcam. While the extreme close-up capability and the detachable main body help to achieve this feature, the included long-neck stand really evolves this point 2 view concept from a novel idea, to practical use.

Think about this: our human hands cannot sustain long periods of time staying in a fixed position. A shaking hand might create a nauseating, uncomfortable feeling for the viewers. With the webcam sitting firmly on the stand, you can now point the camera at the object you want to share for as long as you would like, and still ensure a pleasant viewing experience for the receivers on the other end.

Here are some examples of what this IPEVO P2V can do:

• Pointing to a thin paper document: you can go over an important document on a thin paper with your co-workers residing in another state.
  

• Pointing to a thick book: you can conduct a group study with your classmates on Skype.
  

• Pointing to a colorful drawing: see what your lovely daughter prepared for Dad when you are traveling overseas.
  

The extreme close-up shots are very clear, right? There are three more little things I want to point out in the design:

• The bottom round-shaped base of the P2V stand is heavy. You can extend the arm to the longest distance with the main body almost touching the table top without tilting the base. Everything can stay steady even in the worst of conditions.
  
• The recovery time for the stand to go back to stable after you adjust the webcam position is minimal. 3-seconds is the longest period of time that I have counted of which there is a little residue vibration on the stand after I move the webcam to a different position.
  
• There are three webcam connection pins on the stand. This feature allows for the flexibility of the document positioning on the table. Of course, you can still detach the main body from the stand to achieve maximum flexibility.

Again, those little things demonstrate that IPEVO is still willing to go the extra mile to please potential users. That's why I like the products from this company.

P2V Realizing Eye-to-eye Contact in a Video Chat

Eye-to-eye contact is a very crucial part in human communication. Sometimes, your eyes can deliver all of those subtle feelings of which you want to express but have no words to describe. But, simulating eye-contact is always an issue with online video chat. You can:

1. Always look at the pretty face of your girlfriend on the computer screen. But, unfortunately, the webcam is usually not at the same location of the screen. Therefore, the webcam will always capture you looking at another place.
2. Look at the keyboard when you type. But, again, your girlfriend will see you looking down all the time.
3. To compromise your girlfriend's video chat experience, you can always look at the camera. But, without the eye interaction, your girl friend will see stone eyes, those which do not seem to contain a soul.

Anyway you try, there will be always lack of eye interaction. I think this is why online video chatting is not more popular.

Luckily, IPEVO has rolled out the P2V. Although IPEVO might not have intentionally designed the P2V to accomplish the eye interaction feature, the long, slim neck of the webcam stand and the not-too-big webcam front size can be used to create the eye contact. Just get your girlfriend and you both a P2V, stand the webcam right in front of the computer screen, pull the main body to your eye level, and you two are ready to experience video chat in a whole new dimension. When you look at the screen, you are simultaneously looking at the P2V. You might need to learn to use the camera in this way. But, you really won't miss a lot on the screen since the front dimension of the webcam and the neck is minimal.

Below, you will see a video generated with this setup. When I say "I'm looking at the screen", I'm looking at my image on the screen.When I say "I'm looking at the webcam", I'm looking at the P2V. There is really not much difference! I can look at the image on the screen, do the chat, and the other party will feel that I'm looking at the webcam / them.

Suggestions to IPEVO

• Add an LED light at the front of the P2V camera? Depending on the location of the light source, sometimes, the shadow of the webcam main body sits right on the top of the document you want to scan.

• Maybe match the color on the P2V main body part (silver) and the stand (white)?

• Or, hire a porn star to do a point 2 view video chat demonstration session. This point to view USB camera might get enormous publicity by doing so… :p

See also:

• IPEVO P2V Overview, Gallery, FAQ, Tech specs, Downloads
• POV: IPEVO webcam: first glance, IPEVO PoV webcam now shipping in US 
• P2V photos on flickr

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Labor Day thoughts on the 2009 Skype sale

1. eBay's post-Whitman management gets credit for doing something right. Staffing the right executives in 2008. Letting the new leaders turn the startup into a company worth selling. Sending the right signals to potential buyers. Getting the deal done. Not rewarding the founders for their Joltid extortion. Nice way to turn things around!
2. Silverlake controls everything. With Silverlake Partners owning more than 50% of Skype Ltd., it's their call when to float Skype stock in the future or sell Skype to another company.
3. Skype will fund its own expansion. Don't expect cash infusions for acquisitions, infrastructure, labor intensive services, or advertising. Skype has been producing more than $10 million monthly in free cash. Skype's roadmap will chew up all of it just for internal growth and to create cash reserves.
4. Skype will keep its overall direction and product strategy. Skype doesn't need to rethink its business anytime soon.   
5. The SEC pipeline of data will be gone. eBay's 2009q3 10Q report (coming this October) may be the last detailed reporting of Skype operations and finances ever. Privately owned companies need not report performance unless they float stock.

Five product changes I expect from Skype in the next year.

1. Better P2P. Skype will first deploy a simple functional replacement of the Joltid P2P engine. They will improve it, building in six years' of real world experience Joltid never had. Skype should be able to make its P2P network more resistant to Internet outages and blocking, more resilient in the face of damage to the peer fabric, more efficient in finding and routing connections between users.
2. Better video. Perhaps their own video codecs. Higher resolution video as cameras and PCs catch up. Multiparty video calls. Better use of processors, including video digital signal processors. 
3. Skype Inside. A clearer platforming strategy, building on their experience with Skype Lite (clouds of Skype supporting thin, mobile Skype clients) and Skype For Asterisk (adding UI-free Skype clients to someone else's servers). Think "Communications as a Platform," where you can build Skype messaging, presence, and calling into mobile, desktop, and server applications.
4. ID anguish. Skype has an immature user identity model, left over from instant messaging services in the mid 1990s. We'll see greater conflict between Skype's two identity systems. Skype's consumer and corporate Skype names (user IDs) aren't interchangeable although their users and markets overlap.
5. A little less anti-social. Skype's great at talking with people you know. It does nothing to help me find interesting, entertaining, or useful strangers. Almost nothing (do birthdays count?) at helping me curate my friends and cultivate my relationships over time. Skype backed off from supporting its Skypecasts service (hosted calls with moderated Skype chat backchannels) and Skype public chats (web links to group text chats). Skype will research how to help people do more during a conversation (collaboration) and how to add more of the value found in other social media (discovery, ridiculously easy group formation, social gestures, non-conversational messaging).

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Codec Wars: Yahoo! Messenger 10 + GIPS Video

Yahoo! Messenger 10 beta came out last week, switching to the Global IP Solutions’ VideoEngine for 1-to-1 voice calls.

Y!M video calling is not backward compatible; all users must be on Y!M 10. Interop with MSN doesn't extend to video calls, so friendship across networks is still limited to commodity text IM.

Yahoo! recommends at least 300 Kbps download and 128 Kbps upload, video cards with 96 MB memory, and Microsoft DirectX. This compute burden comes from the audio and video codecs.

Yahoo! adopting GIPS's video plumbing is a coupe for GIPS. Yahoo!'s choices influence other software companies; GIPS just became a safer choice for video. Despite Yahoo! only using the GIPS VideoEngine for limited 1-to-1 video chats, this opens up room for Yahoo! to expand to video conferencing and game-related video applications.

So far this year Skype published its home-grown SILK wideband audio codec, Google bought On2 for its video codecs, the telecom industry held its first conferences on "HD telephony," Microsoft released a bandwidth-consuming HD webcam, and Yahoo! boosted the quality of its video codecs. Moore's Law and mobile broadband seem to be pulling industry to higher fidelity.

Screenshots and comments:

Installing Yahoo! Messenger – Step 1 of 4 – Welcome to Yahoo! Messenger – Typical Install

"Typical Install" includes everything: two browser add-ins, setting Yahoo.com to your home page, and making Yahoo! your default search engine.

Installing Yahoo! Messenger – Step 1 of 4 – Welcome to Yahoo! Messenger – Custom Install

Installing Yahoo! Messenger – Step 2 of 4 – License Agreement and Terms

Installing Yahoo! Messenger – Step 3 of 4 – Ready? Set. Install!

The payload is about 16 MB without toolbars. Skype comes in around 20.

Installing Yahoo! Messenger – Progress Message - "More friends = more fun"

Progress messages set expectations and guide users to features they may not discover on their own.

Installing Yahoo! Messenger – Progress Message - "Keep Friends at your Fingertips"

Installing Yahoo! Messenger – Progress Message - "A better video and voice experience"

Installing Yahoo! Messenger – Progress Message - "Continue the conversation on your phone"

Installing Yahoo! Messenger – Step 4 of 4 – Installation is complete!

Yahoo! Messenger 10 - Login panel

It's a loooong panel.

Import Contacts

The import contacts wizard suffers from the Password Antipattern, asking you to trust Yahoo! with your logins to other services. Most of the sites Yahoo! imports contacts from support OAuth.

Still no contact import from other Yahoo! properties like Delicious, flickr, and upcoming. Or from Skype.

Yahoo! Messenger Video and Voice Setup - 1 of 3 - Microphone

Yahoo! Messenger Video and Voice Setup - 2 of 3 - Speaker

Yahoo! Messenger Video and Voice Setup - 3 of 3 - Camera

Goofy face not included.

Yahoo! Messenger 10 Home Page

A Messenger "home page" isn't new. This design keeps the distracting advertising apart from news and tools.

The Yahoo! Mail tab again shows messaging media are converging experiences, just as Web Messenger is part of Yahoo! web mail and the Yahoo! home page.

GIPS news release below:

Global IP Solutions Powers The New Yahoo! Messenger Video Calling

New Video Call Feature Available for Everyone on Yahoo! Messenger

San Francisco — August 24, 2009 — Global IP Solutions (Oslo Børs: GIPS) announced today that Yahoo! Messenger, a leader in real-time communications with more than 133 million users worldwide, is using GIPS VideoEngine™ to enable new high-quality video calling with the launch of Yahoo! Messenger 10.

Since early 2006, GIPS has provided the underlying voice technology for Yahoo! Messenger, allowing friends, family and colleagues to communicate. Now with the addition of the video calling feature, everyone on Yahoo! Messenger can enjoy video calls enabled by GIPS VideoEngine for superior sound, picture quality and user experience.

“With the launch of Yahoo! Messenger 10, we’re allowing people to instantly communicate with friends and family around the world through new interactive and social features like video calls,” said Dave Merriwether, senior director of Yahoo! Messenger. “The GIPS VideoEngine enables us to provide the Yahoo! Messenger community with the best video experience possible. Now people can enjoy full-screen, face-to-face chats with friends and family at no cost, in the familiar Yahoo! Messenger environment.”

“Yahoo! Messenger is the leading communication platform that provides people with the greatest choice to stay connected to one another through text IM, PC-based calling, mobile text messaging and now video calling,” said Emerick Woods, GIPS’ Chief Executive Officer. “We’re proud to work with Yahoo! to deliver a truly differentiated high quality video experience for the hundreds of millions of people on Yahoo! Messenger around the world,” added Woods.

To download the latest Yahoo! Messenger 10, visit http://messenger.yahoo.com/winbeta

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