Entertainment Podium

Video Conference - The easy way

There are certain businesses on the Internet that still amaze me. Recently, i was searching for a collaboration tool to ‘talk and work’ with one of my marketing managers in India. I stumbled upon Nefsis, a site for business to business video conferencing. After reading their promising “how it works” page, i decided to try it out. Lucky for skeptics like me, they have a video conferencing free trial  pack. The installation was very simple, but what caught and tamed the critic in me was the clarity and ease of use of this application. The best part is, you dont need any expensive equipment, it works fine with just your PC, webcam and Internet Connection. The free trial lasts 14 days, after which i have decided to purchase their reasonably priced service and take advantage of the flexibility that this wonderful service offers. Am really glad that there are still few companies on the Internet worth talking about.

Tags: chat, Collaborate, Conference, Video, Video Conferencing

Twitter: What are you doing?

The latest buzz word on the internet is Twitter. You guessed it right. Twitter is a social networking site. No, this time you are wrong. Twitter is not just another social networking site, it is designed to answer a simple question : What are you doing?

Twitter can help you stay connected to your family members, colleagues and friends through continuous updates about your status and vice versa. You can write a Tweet or update in less than 140 characters about what you are doing now, and the people who are following your twitter feed will get the message either on twitter site or on their mobile phones through SMS. Apart from this simple task, people around the world are finding innovative ways to use twitter. For example, election.twitter.com is a site that asks a question “what do you think?”, and receives the answers from Twitter users through their tweets. For more information and other bright ways to use twitter, check out www.twitter.com.

Tags: Social Networking, twitter, web2.0