Video Conferencing & Skype

In this era of advanced communication, audio & video conferencing has become the need of businesses as it reduces the extra cost of air tickets to be in their branch office physically just to attend a meeting.

Skype is one of the leading audio/video plateform which provides free computer to computer and cost effective computer to landline or mobile calling. Beside audio video calling is a great way to interact but unfortunately Skype doesn't support video conferencing for more than two parties.

Here comes a third party solution for the video conferencing. www.mebeam.com provides browser based video conferencing for more than two parties and there is nothing to be installed on the computer. Cloud computing is indeed on the way to be the new standard. One can use mebeam for video conference and at the same time audio on the skype.

Mebeam is very easy to setup. Just enter the name of your video conferencing room and pass the URL to the other parties to join that video room. Browser window will be divided in to the portions and will show all the connected parties in the same window.

I would recommend to try mebeam with the combination of Skype to have free video conferencing.

Nimbuzz

With the rise of Wi-Fi enabled phones, applications are emerging to utilize as much features of a mobile as possible as before with GPRS one can't do more than mere browsing and text base communication. Cell phones with greater processing power and more intelligent Operating Systems demands a solid internet connection to do cross the boundaries. Mobile are now being in used in the real sense of mobility when applications are out there to make the gsm phone as voip client.

Gone are the days when people used to do voice chat on their PCs or laptops as they have to stick with the laptop or PC in order to complete the voip call. I tried Nimbuzz recently on my Nokia N82 which is quite convincing messenger for the modern needs of communication, covering even popular social networking sites. It's a bundled solution for a person like me who cannot stay out of touch. I am available and responsive to all my wall posts and i don't have to be on my laptop for the status updates.

All my contacts of Yahoo, MSN, Google, Twitter, Facebook are on my n82. I enjoy receiving voice calls and calling my online buddies for free, thanks to the Wi-Fi at my home and office. Posting a tweet has never been so easy and a much needed feature is facebook chat. I dont have to specially sign in to web interface of facebook or MySpace to chat my friends anymore.

Only thing which i found disappointing in Nimbuzz is it doesn't accept complex passwords which contains spaces or special characters due to which i had to change my passwords of all the messengers and social networking logins to be acceptable for Nimbuzz.

Applications like Nimbuzz helped mobiles to be more like mobiles when it comes to Voip :-)

Late Entry

Hi, it's my first official blog to the world. I know I am quite late and would have made my presence felt earlier but you are never too late :P As a matter of fact, i was never comfortable with the idea of blogging as I am not a talkative person. Then i thought to not to hide a geek from the world anymore and came out ;-)
I am not sure how i keep it rolling but here i am to contribute my stream to the bit-sea.