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Re: Amazon Chime

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Post by Diederich »

peatmoss wrote: post #314
Diederich wrote: post #277

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honest question: how do you feel about Google's security history?

I suspect they do a good job at a technical level, but they have interests in advertising that are at odds with my privacy interests. I also have no way to know if they are doing Dark Nefarious Things.

I totally agree with you.

From your initial comment, I got the impression that you were claiming that closed source software could not be excellent..meaning secure.

By the way, I'm a big GPL/free software nut. However, I understand the place of closed source software, and under the right circumstances, it can indeed be excellent.

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Post by dfrey »

I'm so sick of proprietary walled garden messaging systems. So now I need slack, chime, skype, hangouts, imessage, allo, facebook, etc depending on who I want to talk to.

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Post by megablast »

Jaruzel wrote: post #93
ryandrake wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most place I've worked, we'd waste anywhere from 5-10 minutes at the beginning of every meeting just trying to get A/V systems and voice conferencing to work. "Anyone there? Hello? Crap, someone needs to dial in as the host. OK Is everyone dialed in? Good. Oh, wait, Roger can't hear us. Roger, dial back in. OK. Hey, whoever is at the cocktail party, can you go on mute?? Thank you. All right. Who's projecting? The pro…

What you need there then (if you are a Windows shop - unlikely), is Lync or Skype for Business. Despite it being Microsoft, I've found it to be the most reliable and seamless system for multi-party Audio, Video, and Screen-sharing based meetings - and I've used at some time or another in my career almost all the other big hitters in the corporate virtual-conferencing space. Combine Lync/SfB with one of those nice mul…

If I could even log in to Skype for Business, that would be great.

Re: Amazon Chime

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Post by iamatworknow »

ieatfood wrote: post #298
iamatworknow wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do members of an online conference need to be seen at all? What is the benefit of adding video instead of just using audio -- y'know, the medium by which actually information is exchanged?

Human beings happen to be tuned for face to face communication. They exchange a relatively low bandwidth but high importance information through facial gestures, eyebrows, eye contact, etcetera. As long as businesses relationships are still happening between such human beings, there will be a value placed on seeing each other's faces.

Yeah, I get that. I'm sure there are benefits for a purely business-oriented meeting where people are guarding their cards and trying to make deals.

But I've had to be on conferences with purely technical topics where people use cameras. There's barely even a reason for the call to begin with when specs and questions can just be sent via e-mail, so why do we need to see each other?

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Post by phonon »

cdnsteve wrote: post #195

Plus plan: $2.50 per user, maximum 2 attendees - seriously, $125/mo for 50 users? I think they missed the mark. Join.me: 50 meeting participants, $22/mo.

No, "user" means someone who can initiate meetings. The Pro Plan ($15/m) allows up to 100 attendees per meeting. So twice the limit and 30% cheaper :-)

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Post by bhartzer »

cyberferret wrote: post #118

Everything else aside, I am surprised/impressed to see that Amazon has the '.aws' top level domain! Does that mean they will be now branding all their AWS infrastructure under this domain?

Amazon paid a lot for that .AWS TLD ($185,000 ICANN application fee alone plus other expenses). I would imagine that this is one of the first sites of many that they'll launch on their .AWS TLD.

Re: Amazon Chime

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Post by bhartzer »

djsumdog wrote: post #138
cyberferret wrote: post #118

Everything else aside, I am surprised/impressed to see that Amazon has the '.aws' top level domain! Does that mean they will be now branding all their AWS infrastructure under this domain?

This pisses me off to no end. I hate how ICANN approved these product name, (mostly) single company TLDs! I think allowing this is terrible. I know it's just a DNS entry, but it's a fundamental change in the way we think of DNS and the Internet. DNS should not degrade into AOL keywords!

Well, ICANN has approved over 600 dot brand TLDs. I suspect we're going to be seeing a lot of them here in the near future.

Re: Amazon Chime

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Post by aanm1988 »

tenpoundhammer wrote: post #269
ryandrake wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most place I've worked, we'd waste anywhere from 5-10 minutes at the beginning of every meeting just trying to get A/V systems and voice conferencing to work. "Anyone there? Hello? Crap, someone needs to dial in as the host. OK Is everyone dialed in? Good. Oh, wait, Roger can't hear us. Roger, dial back in. OK. Hey, whoever is at the cocktail party, can you go on mute?? Thank you. All right. Who's projecting? The pro…

I worked for over a year writing software for video conferencing systems. It turns out the market has a lot of very strong solutions, but no one is willing to pay for them. The cost of building great video conferencing solutions begins to sky rocket as you reach the higher echelons of quality. The first 75% of good video conferencing is super cheap and easy to make and as you approach the 100% mark things go up expon…

I simply don't believe this. The cost to develop a system that isn't a horribly complex, unintuitive UX disaster is that much more expensive? We aren't talking about amazing AV quality with lag, we're talking about a system that doesn't take 15 minutes out of a meeting to get working.

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Post by rangersanger »

StreamBright wrote: post #273
niyazpk wrote: post #253

The first (and personally the only) requirement I have with any chat system is that it should _not_ modify the text I enter in any way - especially if I am pasting something. Sometimes I have to paste a line or two of code, or a few lines of a stack trace. Sometimes I have to paste a string which contains some particular set of characters. Microsoft Lync absolutely destroys the pasted text. It subtly converts the dou…

Microsoft had a much better chat before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat

If lync introduced its own font, what would it be? I had no idea this was the genesis of comic sans, but I'm so glad I do now.
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