December 4, 2009
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October 1, 2009
If you’re reading this, you are probably wondering one of three things:
- Why can’t I find Public Posts?
- Why can’t I make a Public Post or comment on an existing one?
- 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
If you’re reading this, you are probably wondering one of three things:
- Why can’t I find Public Posts?
- Why can’t I make a Public Post or comment on an existing one?
- 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
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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