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    Tuning In Free Videoconferencing

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    DATE: 2009-03-04 | By Frank Ohlhorst
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      Table of Contents:
    1. Tuning In Free Videoconferencing
    2. Clear Picture Communications with Skype
    3. Video Call with ooVoo
    4. Talk Up with TokBox
    5. Can You Beam with MeBeam?
    6. Best Bet?

    Skype 4.0, ooVoo, Tokbox and Mebeam aim to make videoconferencing simple, but are any of them good enough for business use? Solution providers will find that limitations abound, creating up-sell opportunities.

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    MeBeam
    Those looking to create videoconferences with MeBeam should be come with low expectations. MeBeam is browser-based and is pretty much a one-trick pony. Videoconferences are initiated by the host visiting www.mebeam.com and creating a unique conference room. The meeting leader informs others of the name of the room, and those guests access that meeting room via the MeBeam Web site.

    Video is low quality with low-frame rates; audio is poor quality, and a headset is a must for any voice communications.

    MeBeam uses a Flash-based application to access video and audio from participating computers. Controls are very limited, and additional functions are nonexistent. A word of caution with MeBeam: The site offers a “random room” feature from the home page. Click on that, and you may wind up in a videoconference that you really don’t want to be in.




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