[Spridgets] SOS beta tester sacrificial lambs needed

[Marc]

I've used www.jmeeting.com to do private meetings. There is a lot of, 
um... 'adult' things going on there, but we found it worked out great 
for us, with a group of about 25 people. Yahoo is peer-to-peer, and 
burns up a lot of internet capacity pretty quickly for multiple 
sessions. With Jmeeting, one broadcaster can be seen by thousands of 
viewers without that bandwidth penalty. It's not quite live-action, but 
again, thats expensive and difficult to do bandwidth-wise. Jmeeting 
allows free (albeit limited) use of the site. Only paid subscriptions 
are allowed private broadcasts, but if you need that, only the person 
broadcasting needs a free account, and it's only  like $5 for 30 days. 
They allow you to create your own chat-room, and you can make that 
invite-only if you want. The entire thing is java based, works in a web 
browser...

There is no voice chat, but we didn't need that. Besides, there are any 
number of free or inexpensive providers of voice conferencing that is 
easier for non-technical people to use.  Also I believe Skype supports 
conference calls... don't know if thats still a free service though, and 
it's limited to like 10 people per conference I think...

Marc



Wm. Severin Thompson wrote:
> Hey y'all,
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> For years, we've broadcast SOS via Yahoo messenger.
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> The good.
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> Yahoo Messenger is used by many people already. Many already have a Yahoo
> ID. It's free. It supports both audio and video. When in a conference room,
> all can have microphones, and speak to each other in real time. Video
> qualities have improved with better bandwidth and video codecs.
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> The cons.
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> Many fear the possibility of Yahoo taking over their computers, their minds,
> their lives. Some folks are technically challenged and are unable to set
> their configurations properly.
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> The question..
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> Anyone have personal experience with a WebCam broadcasting/streaming
> software that you've found to work well? I'd like to experiment with some
> options in advance of SOS. We'll need some volunteers.
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> Wm. Severin Thompson
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> ~iii<O