Entries Tagged as ‘Video Chat’

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 [...]

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 21, 2009

TokBox Story of the Week : Celine Dion Fans Reunite

OK, I have to confess that this story is a particular favorite of mine.  Not because I am a huge Celine Dion fan, but because I love the fact that TokBox has kept this group of fans and friends together despite the hundreds of miles that separate them.
I found out about this story from two [...]

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, [...]