EyeJot: Video Email
And I thought - wow - video email could be pretty cool. Especially since it said you could use it just like regular email. It s not like video conferencing. You make your video and send it. The receiver opens it whenever they want to....
Eyejot is a company that hopes to merge email with video chat. They provide a free application that lets you send video to anyone as long as you have a webcam. The files can be added to MySpace or viewed on an Apple video ipod. It works with any web browser, including mobile phones. Unlike video conferencing which must take place all at one time, video email can be sent and viewed at anytime. The only special software required is Adobe Flash.
Eyejot is just a start-up company so hopefully they can expand their product without being swallowed or put out of business by the big guys (ie Google).
Anyway they had some links to news articles on their page and I ended up checking a few out... which led me to ...
Vringo.com: Video Greetings
This may be the next gimmick on the new wave of technology. Similar to phone ringtones you might soon be able to buy the movie clip of your choice to use as your video phone greeting. Video greetings could be a much more personable expression of who you are.
Video greetings - could be fun. Instead of just expressing yourself with your musical taste - what better to express yourself with than a clip from your favorite movie? A whole new money making scheme could unfold. The ringtone market has slowed down considerably... the video clip market would swoop in and stir things up again. Ok to tell you the truth when I was reading about Vringo I thought I was reading about eyejot... oops - they just had a photo on the page... OK... so I returned to the original eyejot site and checked out some blogs... They had a real nice one all about themselves - which unfortunately several people had commented on - saying that eyejot was too difficult that you should try Freegabmail instead. So what the heck - we are cruisin the web here - let go check them out.
Freegabmail: Video Email Gabfests
Ewww - totally twitchy site... but you can jump right in (if you have a webcam) and make a video to send to all your friends (or whomever you like). All they need to have is Flash installed on their computers and they can view your video work of art/live conversation. No signing up - just shoot and go for it. This product is compatible with most email clients or webmail services. Anyway they had a link to a Q&A page which - thank goodness - was not twitchy like the opening page. Gab Mail Q&A It had a lot of useful information on it. Basically right now there are two types of service. GabMail and GabJam. GabMail can be sent to however many people you want - just like regular email. The messages and video can be forwarded and they are threaded together.
GabJam takes it to another level. Once it is started, anyone who receives the email will be able to see every video that is on it right now and every video that is added later. It can go between thousands of people. Become an enormous thread of video mail/information. Sounds pretty crazy and unwieldy to me. Maybe it will be the wave that crashes over me.
Anyway - I will say that it is sort of unfortunate for the eyejot folks that they had that blog that will lead people to other/possibly better software... beware the internet...
1 comment:
You sort of hit the nail on the head in terms of why the blogosphere is so valuable.
We (Eyejot) were very fortunate to have received some great press when we introduced our platform a few months ago. We continue to win lots of praise from users all around the world that have experienced Eyejot and find it easy to learn and use.
When people talked about (or wrote/blogged about) our product and platform and brought up competing or similar solutions we engaged them in those conversations. We tried to indentify the differences that, we thought, made Eyejot a better fit. Sometimes, though, people were looking for solutions that were different from what we had built.
So, I think it's great that something on our site led you to learn about some other great products. Hopefully you now have more choices at your disposal and have learned about some new companies. Others that read your blog will benefit from your research and experiences. Naturally, we hope they give Eyejot a try.
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