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#221

Enterprise 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 use hangouts at a client of mine and it works great—what else would you like to see out of it, out of curiousity?

Re: Amazon Chime

#222

Enterprise 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.

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Re: Amazon Chime

#223

Enterprise 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.

>Enterprise conferencing software is so bad and so expensive I'm astonished it took this long for a decent competitor to come in

Have you tried http://www.justchimein.com/chime-in.html ?

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#224
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appear.in

appear.in requires a plugin for screen sharing but otherwise, I do like it.

The plugin is dummy, required by chrome and just gives permission to share screen. Appear.in has been whitelisted on firefox and requires no plugins there.

Re: Amazon Chime

#225
No Linux client? What's the advantage over WebEx then?

Both hangout and zoom can do Linux, but they aren't seen as corporate as WebEx.

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#226

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We are mostly Mac and Linux at my company.. give Zoom a shot, it's worked out well for video, audio, and sharing... (Europeans in this post have had latency issues though)

I can vouch for this, used it daily for most of last year.. And we didn't have much of any latency issues with our team in Canada and 2 others in Turkey.

same here, people from all over the globe, 30+ people on a meeting, everything just works®.

and the linux client works really well (it's on aur, if you use archlinux)

Re: Amazon Chime

#227
How do they authenticate who they are when they call you? I've gotten bogus calls before from "the credit card company", so there needs to be a way to be certain you're talking to the right people.

Re: Amazon Chime

#228

How do they authenticate who they are when they call you? I've gotten bogus calls before from "the credit card company", so there needs to be a way to be certain you're talking to the right people.

I think it's the app "calling you", not an actual phone call.

Re: Amazon Chime

#229
This is really cool but I wish they had more details on the Chat part of the solution. What does it look like? Can you theme it? Does it have any integrations (ala Slack)? Can you have inline pictures? Does it have a rich message API?

Re: Amazon Chime

#230

This is really cool but I wish they had more details on the Chat part of the solution. What does it look like? Can you theme it? Does it have any integrations (ala Slack)? Can you have inline pictures? Does it have a rich message API?

More importantly, does it support GIFs?
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