3 posts tagged “vidcast”

UPDATE: Britrock:

After June 13th only ooVoo Super users will be able to initiate video chats with 3 or more. Anyone can take part in more than 3way.

ooVoo is a Windows and Mac-based free video conferencing tool currently in beta test.
I've confirmed 3-way 4-way 5-way video conferencing so far.

I'm on my third update of ooVoo, so I guess they're still working out the kinks. The 5-way call eventually choked up... I was recording it at the time.

I hope to achieve 6-way video conferencing with this free tool...  It looks promising!

ooVoo 5

Please Help!

Oovoo 4 Mac

Coming soon to the Mac
The Mac alpha is not generally available yet;
evidently one can ask support to participate...
It's here!

• echo-cancellation and loopback BAD (don't use speakers)
• hot input levels GOOD ambient noise BAD
• auto-input-level-adjust + ambient noise BAD (Skype)
• built-in mics BAD when low input levels + silence is boosted to NOISE

Thanks Katie... Katie had to join Vox to comment, since I moderate comments by anyone BUT my "neighbors." A significant inconvenience for a non-Voxer with a "contribution comment" to make. Could OpenID allow her to be a non-anonymous non-Vox contributor?

Possibly the most well-known name in independent tech broadcasting, Leo Laporte is launching a low-key and yet bold move into internet television.

The TWiT.tv family of shows is going to go video, and Leo recently said he was planning to start with 25 hours a week of video programming. You tell me if that's a promise or a threat. He's been exploring tech options and I've watched some video via twitlive.tv Saturday and Sunday from 11AM onward. Leo is building out his office into a small studio, purchasing cameras and lights and talking about it during the process, as he did recently on episode 140 of TWiT.

Leo has a long history in broadcasting and his close pals from the defunct Tech TV include John Dvorak, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose and D. L. Prager. Amber Macarthur, Steve Gibson, Paul Thurrott, Merlin Mann and Andy Ihnatko all do shows on the TWiT network, and the Buzz crew Molly Wood and Tom Merritt are frequent guests, as are Veronica Belmont, Jason Calacanis and Robert Scoble. Leo has had some great "gets" over the years, including such internet-famous persons as The Woz.

Leo runs a small empire which isn't swimming in debt and seems to make enough money that talent and rent are paid by donations, appropriate advertisers, and well-done interstitials. In stark contrast to the standard raising of a butt-load of money from VCs and having a burn-rate that isn't necessarily sustainable, Leo has a more pragmatic and less risky approach.

Leo is the underdog mogul. He's got the numbers, the experience, the personal brand, the industry contacts, and the good will of a huge audience. He's nobody's fool and a genuine nice guy whose likely success no-one will begrudge. I admit, I'll be watching with some fascination how Leo's foray into TV plays out over the next months.

Video podcaster Dave Mora did this interview with me after the KGO Live event last weekend.
He recorded it with a Flip camera. Thanks, Dave!

Cranky geeks vidcasts Wednesdays from the Site.

Episode of note: ep. 104

• John Dvorak (dvorak dot org slash blog take a drink) is cranky as always
  
• Sebastian Rupley is cheerfully there as usual
  
• Adam Curry (and hair) comes out as a Tory
  
• Leo Laporte gives makeup advice then pownces
  

The controversial stuff happens just before the show ends. 
I for one hope Adam follows his heart and votes Republican in the next election. From Iraq.   

Adam may wish to recuse himself rather than blather on about Lessig whilst hiding conflicts of interest...