“Video” was king at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as Skype and Cisco brought out new products designed to make it easier for folks to participate in high-quality video conferences from the comfort of their living room. But does video conferencing, which requires full attention, fit with the trends we’re seeing in social applications toward continuous partial communications using a variety of channels, with a variety of participants engaging in multiple simultaneous conversations? Joel Stein at TIME has an interesting take, arguing that people would rather TiVo their lives and shift between various channels and conversations than commit to a video conference. Yes, video conferencing is becoming indispensable in business communications, but will it become an integral part of social communications?
A couple of more markers this week underscoring the growing interest in video as a collaboration technology:
Taken together these two data points highlight the relative strength of video conferencing in light of a rough market for communications application and system vendors. We’re seeing a number of key trends pushing demand for video, most notably falling travel budgets, but also the falling cost and rapidly improving quality of video conferencing. Even among the twitter/facebook generation, video conferencing through public services such as Skype continues to grow. Don’t ignore video as you develop your collaboration architectures.
At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference this week in Boston, I had the pleasure of seeing a lot of interesting new companies and products. Video camera in tow, I captured elevator pitches with half a dozen of them: Newsgator, Tomoye, Yakabod, Joyent, nGenera, Box.net and qTask. Here is the E2 elevator pitch extravaganza.
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Jan 11th, 2010 |
