Entries Tagged as ‘Video Message’

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 [...]

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 [...]

May 18, 2009

Ten Reasons to use Tokbox for Video Mail

While most of us are used to email by now, did you know you can now enhance email by sending a video mail? Since many of you are probably new to the world of video mail, below you will find ten reasons to use Tokbox video mail.
1. No download is required to send a video [...]

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 13, 2009

TokBox Story of the Week : Say Something in Welsh

In my quest to find ever more interesting stories about how TokBox is used across the world, the one that caught my eye this week comes all the way from Wales.
Say Something in Welsh is using TokBox to help them teach people one new Welsh word each day. Every day they make up a sentence [...]

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 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 12, 2009

St. Patrick’s Day and more at TokBox

Exciting times here in the land of TokBox. We’ve just pushed out a release with a number of improvements we hope you’ll like.
First off there are now greetings cards for St. Patrick’s day, including my favorite “join me for a beer” card. Check them out and send one to your friends today!

Our newest team member, Addison, [...]