Entries Tagged as ‘Video Calling’

July 2, 2009

Tokbox Release Update: Changes to the Video Calling User Interface

As part of our quest to make TokBox the simplest video chat and video message service on the web, we recently let our designers loose on video chat to see what magic they could do and this week we released it for all the world to see.
We thought it might be helpful to hit the [...]

June 26, 2009

Having issues with the Tokbox Facebook Video Chat Plug-in?

Since we’ve recently had some intermittent issues with our Facebook Video Chat Plugin – possibly due to a UI change by Facebook – I did want to highlight that you can still make a video call or video chat with your Facebook friends using Tokbox. Even if you aren’t using Mozilla Firefox, or if you’re [...]

June 19, 2009

Tokbox UI Changes: How to…

Tokbox made many changes to our UI a few weeks ago for doing things like placing video calls, so I thought I would do a  very quick blog post on “How to…” do things like place a video call. Links to visuals are included for many of our key features below.
How to create a video [...]

June 5, 2009

New Stuff: Enhancements to the Tokbox user interface for managing your account and contact list

We know how much you love to chat with your friends over IM and over the last few months I’ve been hearing from lots of you about what you’d like to see changed in our IM client. I’m pleased to say that the first phase of these changes are live for you all to [...]

April 30, 2009

TokBox Story of the Week: Long Distance Love

For long-distance lovers, Candy (aka Atear Forme) and Markshop (aka Markoshop Rocks),  TokBox is not just a way of chatting with each other, it is a way of being together, despite the 700 miles that divide them.
Candy lives in Ohio and Markoshop lives in Rhode Island, and while it’s pretty tough to get together, they [...]

April 9, 2009

Sharing never felt so good

With March Madness finished, it’s time to fill my weekends exploring San Francisco and welcoming Spring to 2009. In college, I was an avid photographer, and rarely met an occasion that didn’t want to be photographed. Now I’m going to meet this city where I’ve lived the last nine months with the same attitude. And [...]

April 3, 2009

TokBox Story of the Week: What’s yours?

I’ve been hearing lots of great TokBox stories recently.  Everything from someone planning a virtual baby shower for a friend who she hasn’t seen since she’s been pregnant, to the Young Pastors that regularly get together on TokBox, to the politician and father of two, Adriel Hampton who is using TokBox in his campaign for [...]

March 25, 2009

Get your chat on

Alright TokBoxers – we’ve done it.
After considering a metric ton of feedback and extensive internal testing we’ve redesigned conferences. Click on the conference button to check out the new design and enjoy video chatting with your friends. There are a bunch of new features, so many that I don’t have time to highlight them all, [...]

March 19, 2009

March Madness on TokBox

It’s March Madness again and for those of us who are avid college basketball fans, like me, we’ve made our choices for the annual bracket pools and are avidly following the first weekend of games. I’ve done pretty well so far (I chose LSU over Butler for starters), as have some of the others [...]

January 23, 2009

Better Know a Feature: The Tokbox Facebook Plug-in

We realize that the download link on our site doesn’t fully explain how to utilize the Firefox extension we have available for Facebook. If you install this Mozilla extension to Facebook chat, you will also be able to have video chats with your Facebook friends (this will not interfere with your ability to do a [...]