Just cruising the blogs about DEMO and came across this one on a new Settle based company called Eyejot. Now I’m all about communication so when something new comes along that can make my communication experience better, more interesting or just fun I’ve just got to try it out!
I’ve talked about “live chat“ and we also tossed around the idea of “audio” chat so the naturally progression would be video. I of course didn’t see the demo but will check it out once it’s posted over on DEMO’s site but Shel Israel saw it, along with many others and has some good little write-ups on it:
Eyejot of Seattle is a video messaging platform. Extremely easy to use. You can take a clip from camera photne or dig computer. Send it off to anyone else on the eyejot network. Can watch it on your iPod via iTunes, MySpace. Consumer apps, but is also compatible with mobile devices for the business user. Trying to combine video chat and email.
And of course down the avenue is covering lots of it!
Eyejot is an interesting digital video play. It is essentially a client-free online video messaging platform for both personal and business communications. Right now, the service is private invite-only, but they encouraged DEMO attendees to try it out. After signing up, you can create and receive video messages in a self-contained window using an inexpensive webcam.
There is no client to install, so once you sign up, you can use it in any browser, on any platform. In addition to sharing video snippets separately through your visual only address book, you can also watch it in iTunes, your iPod, mobile devices and social networks such as MySpace.
I jumped over an onto the site to see if I could get in and give it a go. Just checking through their settings and all that I can enabled a widget on my site or blog (check the sidebar) I can enable it for mobile, for iTunes or RSS.
Now to see if anyone wants to test it with me, my user name is “ccmehil”…
UPDATE: Just got pinged via Eyejot by David (CEO) and Daryn (who saw the widget on the site and replied that way) was eager to respond and tell them how cool I think the whole thing is but couldn’t (for whatever reason) respond to David (Daryn did it anonymously) I clicked the link to send him an Eyejot but each time the recipient box is empty. So If you guys read this blog again do know “YOUR PROGRAM ROCKS!!” and the fact you took time out while live at DEMO was just fantastic!
Link to down the avenue: Eyejot Video Messaging Platform
Hey Craig-
If you’re impressed with eyeyjot, you’ll love gabmail and gabjam (www.freegabmail.com). You can use any email or webmail client, no download *or* registration, unlimited number of free messages of up to two minutes in length. Best part is that every message is threaded so you can access any video in a thread with a single click. Much more robust and even easier to use! Nick.
So who are you Nick and what’s your connection to this gabmail deal? I mean I had one little issue with Eyejot and that was due to the limited invitations while they startup but otherwise it’s GREAT – I did a quick check on this gabmail and I’m not so sure I like it – I mean with no user accounts how do I know who is reading/seeing my recordings? It’s an encoded URL and that can be hacked…
So what’s the deal? Looking for a blog or info or “About Us” but seeing nothing
Hey Craig! Do you smell spam?
Hey Bloke, believe it or not but the CEO of gabmail and gabjam and the upcoming gabsight did contact me – seems Nick is a friend and fan of their service – his methods may seem “spam” like but it’s all legit.
Their CEO promised he’d have “about” pages up soon as well as a real privacy policy statement.
Waiting to see…