Earlier today, Marjolein Hoekstra waxed lyrical about Viper Room, a multi-party video conferencing service launched by Ashod Apakian. At present, the service is limited to 4 participants although according to Marjolein, this will be upped to 8 and eventually as many as 32. But…it is video only. You’ll need to use a VoIP service to add in voice. The rationale? According to Marjolein:
…voice-conferencing is already handled well by other services. It’s really the video conferencing part that is was missing.
Yes it’s got some cool features like the ability to embed the service onto your own site although I’m not quite sure why anyone would want to do that. It has a means to create private conferences which is worthwhile. But…
My first thought – silent movies and look what happened to them. But then I also thought:
- What business person is going to mess about with two services?
- What happens when one or other service goes down? Skype would be the obvious voice choice but it’s not always reliable. Last evening for example, I kept losing Vinnie, who’s currently in India. The other week, I kept losing folk in America, Ireland and the UK.
Viper Room is a great idea but without voice it’s a dead duck. It will also need to provide guaranteed service levels in order to be acceptable as a business class service. Moving swiftly on…
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