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Can Video Kick Social Interaction Up a Notch?

Neil Glassman — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:00:07 +0000

Video is acknowledged as a good way to engage visitors and increase the time they spend on your owned web and social media. When one thinks of online video, though, it’s primary as one-way broadcast or, perhaps, two-way chat managed by the host site. TokBox’s OpenTok enables brands to apply video in a more “social” manner — with interaction among visitors.

Let’s take a look at OpenTok and some of the ways it’s being used. Perhaps there’s a spark of an idea for you.

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Tokbox Group Video Gets Supersized, Could Video Classrooms Be Far Off?

Raj Dash — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:46:55 +0000

Group video meetings from TokBox just got significantly improved: the service is now capable of handling up to 200 viewers, with a dozen of them active at any given time. Tokbox calls this new feature Broadcast Video Chat, and the potential group use is significant, including business collaboration or education. What’s more, there’s no software to download, as TokBox works in a web browser.
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TokBox Becomes the Online Party Line

Nick O'Neill — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:10:27 +0000

Yesterday afternoon, I was calling my friend Jesse Thomas when his girlfriend picked up and invited me to an online video chatroom called TokBox. I had used the service earlier on with Peter Corbett but now there were four of us chatting randomly about pretty much nothing. I decided to tweet out to my friends to come join the party and see how many people we could get to come join. Within 10 minutes we had close to 20 people chatting simultaneously in a TokBox conference room.

The conference became some sort of post-modern art display with people saying random things and pointing in random directions reminding me of the introduction to the Brady Bunch television show. While a 20 person conference call is not extremely useful for productivity purposes it was a pretty cool display of a new and unique technology. Unfortunately, I had to get on a business call during the TokBox session and while I thought my microphone had been turned down, it hadn’t!

Regardless, of my inability to properly manage the hardware attachments to my computer, my first TokBox experience was a pretty good one. TokBox provides a simple solution for those that are looking to engage in video conferencing for free. The only thing lacking currently lacking is a group chat feature within the conference area but I would expect that to be added relatively soon. Additionally, there were a number of people that had technical issues with TokBox. I was not one of them.

Image courtesy of Peter Corbett

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