January 19, 2010

Take control of your video chat with moderation

We’re excited to announce that TokBox offers a new premium feature that allows you to take control of your video chat. With moderation controls you can:

* Control who joins and remains in your call
* Silence the audio of participants
* Promote another participant to a moderator
* Control the media shared within your chat

Sign-up for your 30-day free trial now and pay only $9.99/month after that. The TokBox you know and love will continue to remain free.  For a sneak peek at how moderation works check out the video below:

We look forward to hearing what you think so don’t hesitate to shoot a note to contact@tokbox.com.

Best,

Lauren

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January 12, 2010

Update: Calling all VIPs

Thanks for such an amazing response; we were overwhelmed by the number of people that wanted to be a VIP. We wish everyone could participate, but so many people wanted to check out our new features that we’re not adding anymore VIPs at this time.

We’re going to release these new features to the public really soon so stay tuned for an announcement. I know we’re excited :)

Cheers,
Lauren

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January 3, 2010

Calling all VIPs

In celebration of the New Year, we’re giving a select group of TokBox users free early access to all of our new features before we roll them out to the public. All we want in return? Feedback!

We received a lot of requests for new features in 2009 and are excited to share them with you as we release them. If you are interested in joining this exclusive group, please email VIP@tokbox.com with answers to the following questions:

1. What is your occupation? Do you take part in any special interest groups?
2. What do you most often use TokBox for? (ex. To hold meetings for my small business, to tutor students via video chat, to meet with members of my special interest group)

If you are interested in joining please respond promptly as we will not be able to include everyone in this exclusive group.

Best!

Lauren

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December 17, 2009

Santa delivers the goods

Santa delivered on his promise and we believe all your video messages have been restored. There is a small percentage that the Grinch may still have in his possession, but we’re working on it.

Thanks for all your patience as we resolved this issue. If you have any questions or concerns please send us a note at contact@tokbox.com.

Happy Holidays!

Lauren

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December 15, 2009

How the Grinch stole (temporarily) Video Messages

To kick off his holiday season, the Grinch broke into our office and made off with some of your video messages. Fortunately  we’re on the good list and Santa is working with us to recover them as quickly as possible.

On a serious note, some of you may have noticed a black screen that displays a “Connection Error” or “Loading” message when you try and play any video message recorded before today.  We are now working to resolve this issue and restore all your video messages and we’ll update you as soon as this has been resolved. Sorry for the scare and as always, feel free to send any questions to contact@tokbox.com. (If you have the email address of the Grinch, we’d also suggest sending him a note)

Cheers,

Lauren

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December 7, 2009

Update: Changes to TokBox functionality

As of this weekend, EtherPad is working on TokBox.  The AppJet team has temporarily restored their free service in response to user demand.  We’re still working on finding an alternative solution so stay tuned for updates!

If you would like to read EtherPad’s blog post regarding these changes click here. As always, feel free to send any questions to contact@tokbox.com.

Best,

Lauren

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December 4, 2009

Changes to TokBox functionality

As you might have heard our partner AppJet, the company behind the real-time collaboration tool EtherPad, was acquired by Google today. We’d like to congratulate the AppJet team and wish them the best of luck.

But what does that mean for all of you that use EtherPad in TokBox? Unfortunately, as of this morning the Etherpad free service no longer exists, and as a result EtherPad no longer works on TokBox. We are working to remove it all together. However, we are busy working on ways to fill the gap with some really exciting new tools, so stay tuned.

To learn more about what will happen to information you’ve created on your pad, visit the EtherPad blog. For more information on TokBox’s integration of EtherPad, click here. As always if you have any questions feel free to contact us at contact@tokbox.com.

Best,

Lauren

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October 1, 2009

No more Public Posts

If you’re reading this, you are probably wondering one of three things:

  1. Why can’t I find Public Posts?
  2. Why can’t I make a Public Post or comment on an existing one?
  3. What’s going to happen to all the Public Posts I have made in the past?

So I am going to attempt all three of those questions here.

After a lot of discussion and healthy debate, we decided to remove the Public Posts feature from TokBox. I know there has been a lot of discussion amongst the community about whether we were going to do this, as well as lots of great suggestions about what we could do to control the sometimes ‘inappropriate’ posts and comments. We considered all of those ideas, but at the end of the day we decided to focus our energy on what we’re really good at – multi-party chat.

So, as from today, you won’t be able to make any new posts or add any comments.

But, if you created a Public Post in the past (or a video comment), don’t worry there is a way to keep it. Here’s how.

Simply go to your profile, decide which of your posts you want to keep and click on “Forward”. You can then send the post as a video message to yourself, to keep forever. (If there is a particularly special video comment you want to keep, you’ll need to watch the comment and at the end there will be the option to “Forward” the post). You’ll need to do this in the next 30 days, as after that the posts will no longer be visible.

And, remember, if you do want to record a video message and send it to a group of people, you can do the same thing our with video message feature.

I look forward to chatting to you on TokBox soon.

Micky
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September 29, 2009

No more Public Posts

If you’re reading this, you are probably wondering one of three things:

  1. Why can’t I find Public Posts?
  2. Why can’t I make a Public Post or comment on an existing one?
  3. What’s going to happen to all the Public Posts I have made in the past?

So I am going to attempt all three of those questions here.

After a lot of discussion and healthy debate, we decided to remove the Public Posts feature from TokBox.  I know there has been a lot of discussion amongst the community about whether we were going to do this, as well as lots of great suggestions about what we could do to control the sometimes ‘inappropriate’ posts and comments.  We considered all of those ideas, but at the end of the day we decided to focus our energy on what we’re really good at – multi-party chat.

So, as from today, you won’t be able to make any new posts or add any comments.

But, if you created a Public Post in the past (or a video comment), don’t worry there is a way to keep it.  Here’s how.

Simply go to your profile, decide which of your posts you want to keep and click on “Forward”. You can then send the post as a video message to yourself, to keep forever.  (If there is a particularly special video comment you want to keep, you’ll need to watch the comment and at the end there will be the option to “Forward” the post).  You’ll need to do this in the next 30 days, as after that the posts will no longer be visible.

And, remember, if you do want to record a video message and send it to a group of people, you can do the same thing our with video message feature.

I look forward to chatting to you on TokBox soon.

Micky
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September 10, 2009

TokBox for Ning Networks Launched Today

A lot has been going on at TokBox Towers the last couple of weeks.  We’ve said goodbye to the Ultimate Intern, Andrew; we have welcomed a couple of new members to the TokBox Team, John and Jon (makes it easy to remember their names), we’ve made some improvements and additions to the site, not least of which was the addition of Etherpad, a real-time document collaboration tool, and today’s exciting news is the launch of the TokBox Application for Ning Networks.

Now, Ning Network Creators can add TokBox video chat to their network and enable their members to video chat live via TokBox. Seems the team at Ning thinks it’s pretty cool, they chose us as one of their ‘Staff Picks’.

One network (Teens for Christ, Hawaii) started using it even before the official launch today (early adopters!), so if you’re interested you can look there for inspiration. Otherwise, if you have a Ning Network, it’s super simple to get started by simply going to the ‘Manage’ tab in your account.  If you’re a member of a Network, not the Creator, it’s just as simple –  start campaigning the Network Creator to get TokBox Video Chat added!

There’s more to come in the next few weeks, so you’ll be hearing from me again soon.

Micky
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