> Amazon Chime is a communications service that transforms online meetings with a secure, easy-to-use application that you can trust.
- Amazon, PRISM partner
Amazon Chime
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seemed like it was just a mobile join notification in the video similar to Skype for business or WebEx if you are using VoIP. No? My company used WebEx and I could make it dial me and start up my conference line without having to go through all the regular pin entry stuff. Now we're using Lync (Skype for business) which is similar although tragically buggy. That can also dial me and sends notifications if you hook it…
Lync is still buggy? I haven't used it in about two years, but I'd have thought Microsoft would have solved those issues by now.
Lync is shockingly bad. You'd think that after 45 years of sending text to each other over networks this would be a solved problem by now.
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#103No Linux. Buh-Bye
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#104I really do not like conference systems which do not work on Linux. Not everybody is using a Mac or Windows. Microsoft is also ignoring Skype and Skype for Business on Linux. This is all crap.
Don't know about Skype for business but they are rewriting the normal Skype client for Linux. https://community.skype.com/t5/Linux/bd-p/Linux I didn't try it out. The old client still works. The only missing feature is screen sharing in multiple parties video calls. I'm using TeamViewer for that. Desktop sharing is much smoother with TeamViewer anyway. The real plus of Skype over Hangout or Webex is the chat: the his…
Old client will be turned off in a month or so.
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#105Enterprise conferencing software is so bad and so expensive I'm astonished it took this long for a decent competitor to come in. I'm really surprised Google didn't go all in with making Hangouts a decent competitor. I have a feeling this will make a lot of money.
We used Outlook communicator and it wasn't that bad. There were some glitches sometimes but overall it was workable.
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#106They tout security but I don't think it's open source and it looks like everything is stored on Amazon servers. Minimally it is centralized, and you can't verify that there's no backdoor. In this day and age, that means we're both trusting their core intentions, and also trusting that some government won't step in and silently force their hand. I don't personally feel that is good enough to be considered secure anymo…
That is exactly what I thought when I read the words "secure" and "trust". If it is not open source it is neither secure nor should anybody trust it. The word used in Britain to describe a statement like that is bollocks.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hangouts is so strange to me (like many Google products I guess). They got a ton of traction; first release immediately was super solid and then nothing. Nothing has changed in ages. No obvious features get implemented. I would love so much to have s tile view of all participants. Ideally we would get a codec that's actually supported by hardware instead of this battery draining mess. I'd love to have an option for t…
At one time this was a function of how Google did promotions/pay raises. I'm not sure if Hangouts got caught in that catch 22 or not but it did kill a lot of decent projects. Had that team remained relevant they could have conceivably done a "Chromebox" Hub like the Surface Hub and given Microsoft some competition in that space. EDIT: Ok so as is pointed out there is a chromebox for meetings. Pretty nice. Seems to be…
It's out of Google "other". Accounted along with Cloud all under Diane Greene.
Also, modern GVC is fucking amazing.
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#108Speaking of.. can Slack hurry up and buy Zoom? Aren't they pretty flush with cash? It seems crazy that they are letting this huge market (where they have a foothold) slip away to new competitors.
A better question would be: How long until AWS has a Slack competitor? That natively integrates with the entire AWS stack?
>natively integrates with the entire AWS stack
I'm not sure I see the utility in this, as Amazon resources and group chat don't really have a lot of overlap, at least for me. What would you need "integrated" into the new AWS Chat that couldn't be accomplished with a chatbot and Slack?
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#109> Amazon Chime is a communications service that transforms online meetings with a secure, easy-to-use application that you can trust. - Amazon, PRISM partner
Has this been substantiated? To my knowledge Amazon denies being a part of PRISM and the only thing a quick search reveals is that denial and Snowden criticizing Amazon for not being HTTPS by default on some of their endpoints.
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#110I liked the part about Chime calling you at the scheduled start of meeting. So simple yet I had never thought of this since my org uses WebEx. With a smart phone that would pretty well via a push notification or an actual call, but not sure how that would work when you want a join a meeting from a physical meeting room with its own AV system. I'm sure there is a way to get that set up.
I wonder how Chime callback will work with back-back meetings. ie, I'm in someone's Chime/webex, and I need to join a different one. Also does it seamlessly join multiple connections - one benefit of Webex is that I can start my meeting on the iPhone while leaving a meeting room so that others can hop on, and then have my laptop join later so I can share my screen when I hit my desk.
It can/should tell everyone at the start and tell you specifically when it's time to say bye. Depending on the time of the next meeting you could opt to join that one late... obviously triple booked will never work.