Entries Tagged as ‘Video Conference’

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 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 [...]

May 21, 2009

TokBox Story of the Week : Training teams for success

It was great to hear from Gina Turner-Guzman last week about how TokBox is helping her build her home fragrance and candle business, Gold Canyon. She tells me that a really important part of driving the business is training the sales representatives.  Given they are spread out all over the country, she was increasingly finding that [...]

May 7, 2009

Things you never knew about Mother’s Day

You may have always thought that Mother’s Day was simply a “Hallmark Holiday”, but it’s not the case.  In fact, it was first celebrated in the United States in 1907, some three years before Hallmark was even founded. And it doesn’t have to be just to be a “Hallmark Holiday” this year either, you can [...]

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 [...]

March 11, 2009

Tokbox Employees on Twitter

Since Tokbox knows that a number of our customers are using the service Twitter, Tokbox just wanted to do a quick blog post to provide you with a list of folks utilizing Twitter in our company. Have a suggestion? Please do feel free to send us a tweet (we don’t bite).
Tokbox: The official Tokbox Twitter [...]

March 5, 2009

10 Reasons to use Tokbox for Video Conferencing

Why use Tokbox for video conferencing?
There may be lots of people offering video conferencing out there, but TokBox is a little bit different and here’s 10 reasons why…
1. It’s free. Of course.
2. It’s super easy to use. You don’t have to download anything and we make it easy to start and join a call
3. You can [...]

November 25, 2008

Better Know a Feature: Tokbox Video Conferencing

Try Tokbox Video Conferencing when one person simply isn’t enough. As you may have some questions about video conferencing, I thought I would answer some of them for you…

Do other video conferernce participants need to have a Tokbox account?

Only the party that initiates the video conference call requires a Tokbox account. You can simply send [...]

November 17, 2008

New to Tokbox? Tips for setting your webcam and microphone settings.

One of the most common issues we see in the customer service channel has to do with webcam and microphone detection issues. A sample of the questions we get:

My friend can’t see me (you need to set your cam and mic settings).
I can’t see my friend (your friend needs to set their cam/mic settings).
My friend [...]