Admit­tedly, I’m into this stuff, so caveat emp­tor ;)

 

On the one hand, it’s fun to do a video-conference, par­tic­u­larly when you’re on a pro­fes­sional setup, as with my friends at g2j.com: great qual­ity, ser­vice and inter­na­tional setup … you can’t go wrong. On the other hand, I just had my first flash­meet­ing, a web­cam multi-user video-conference with friends that resem­bled an IRC chat, with video! That is, a syn­chro­nous multi-user com­mu­ni­ca­tion forum, with video. IRC has its advan­tages and flash­meet­ing is still lack­ing most of the func­tions that makes IRC work well, includ­ing robots, log­ging and much more … but multi-user videochat­ting is com­pelling. I don’t know what a 150 per­son con­fer­ence might look like, but the expe­ri­ence with 15 peo­ple was … really a lot of fun! When’s the next one?

 

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