Archive for September, 2009
For the last 5 years, Wainhouse Research has been conducting an on-line end-user survey focusing on enterprise video conferencing. Subscribers of the Wainhouse Research Bulletin (which I strongly recommend) are invited to answer a survey, which covers various interesting questions involving video conferencing and the enterprise. As I was among those who filled the survey, I recently received this year’s results, and I have to say that I haven’t got to reading them thoroughly until most recently. By chance, I
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | September 29th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
The debate on which endpoint we’ll be using for video conferencing, once it’s mass deployed and becomes a must-use means of communication is as old as the debate on when it will be mass deployed and become a must-use means of communication. As my “elderly” colleague Tsahi wrote, we’re just around the corner for too long. Still, it makes an interesting debate: assuming video conferencing becomes a tool that every employee, be it a Fortune 500 CEO or a secretary
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | September 22nd, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
[I'm discussing video conferencing here on a regular basis, but it seems as I have neglected a very important building block of the solution: data collaboration. In order to make amends I asked Sasha Ruditsky, TBU's CTO and a video conferencing veteran, to write an introduction for video collaboration in video conferencing.] From the dawn of the age of business conferencing three types of interactions between people are associated with it: People want to be able to hear each
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By guest | September 15th, 2009 | Filed under Collaboration, Video Conferencing
Barack Obama needs no introduction. Even my 4 year old knows his name and what he looks like (and we, I remind you, are living in Israel, some thousands of kilometers away from Washington). It seems that Obama is everywhere, and his always-on presence is quite remarkable even for an American president. Last month in an incredible New York Magazine article titled “The Message Is The Message” Jennifer Senior gave some numbers to go with my impressions: Since occupying the
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | September 8th, 2009 | Filed under Innovation
[Mor Naaman is an assistant professor at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information, where his research focuses on social media. In particular, Mor aims at improving the ways in which we consume and create social media information, including multimedia. His home on the Web is mornaaman.com; he blogs away from home at ayman-naaman.net; and he just started tweeting publicly at @informor - encourage him with a hearty follow!] What’s the connection between social media and multimedia companies? Other than
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By guest | September 1st, 2009 | Filed under Innovation, Video Applications
