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TokBox Is The Hotness

The following picture is really all I need to say about this.

TokBox is freaking cool.

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I had honestly only used this service for a 1:1 chat with a fellow friend back in Austin and didn’t think much of the service until Tony Steward invited me to a nerdfest in the real.

Thanks to Twitter, we had more than 20 live feeds from a few who were rocking the cameras and some just voice.  Coolest feature (beyond those that are obvious) is that users without accounts can jump right in on the action.  This “lowering the bar” is crucial for mass adoption, and I’m pretty sure that everyone who engaged with the crowd tonight signed up for real accounts.

The possibilities are endless for this simple service.  I’m already thinking of about 10.

Have you tried TokBox?  It’s freaking rocks.

***UPDATE***

Apparently the count rocked upwards toward 60+.  I had to leave so I could do real productive things… but wow.

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40 Responses to “TokBox Is The Hotness”

  1. December 16, 2008 at #

    Jumped on based on your Twitter tweet. I agree that it was incredible. There are so many uses and ways to apply this. You are so right in that the easy adoption without having to get an account is going to be crucial and may help it advance quickly.

    Thanks for the tweet and letting me see this.

  2. Brad
    December 16, 2008 at #

    Yeah Bro! tokbox IS the hottness!
    We just started using tokbox at Seacoast to bring campus pastors together for sermon planning!

    • December 16, 2008 at #

      very cool. love to see other in-the-real-implementations.

  3. December 16, 2008 at #

    Many thanks for the kind Tokbox mention.

  4. December 16, 2008 at #

    I think we need to have preset rules for using TokBox, though. The feedback/echoing was a bit rough at times.

    The conversations really got rough as we got 30+ chatters.

    Very impressive service, though.

    • December 16, 2008 at #

      yeah. definitely need some moderation and controls.

  5. December 16, 2008 at #

    This was quite fun.

  6. December 16, 2008 at #

    Haha, yeah TokBox!

  7. December 16, 2008 at #

    got your pic on there. insanity.

    • December 16, 2008 at #

      it was craziness…

      • December 16, 2008 at #

        Yeah, that was pretty wild. I saw @human3rror's rt that said we might have set the record for most vid chatters on toxbox. Nice! :)

  8. Adrian Rodriguez
    December 15, 2008 at #

    Woah! First of all, intense debate is gone? What happened? Second of all, tokbox was awesome, but worked for me for only about 15 seconds, then my browser went kaplut! Every one of them. So yeah, no fun there.

  9. December 16, 2008 at #

    Hi Leo,
    Thanks! I put together a little item here as well: http://tinyurl.com/68jyzb

    • December 16, 2008 at #

      Damon,

      Thanks for that information. I will definitely pass this on when other users seem to struggle.

      • December 18, 2008 at #

        hehe.

      • December 18, 2008 at #

        hey leo, what do you think about using tokbox for "other" things…?

        • December 18, 2008 at #

          Yes, yes, and yes. I think it will actually be very appropriate.

  10. December 16, 2008 at #

    Hi human3rror,

    Glad to.

    Hi Leo,
    Headsets greatly help with issues like echo and ambient noise. I would also highly recommend folks work on Flash 10 for best performance (link:http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/).

    • December 16, 2008 at #

      hehe. nice.

    • December 16, 2008 at #

      Ah, great. Thanks for the advice. I saw the note at the top of the page. I will make sure to include both of these "recommendations" for users the next time we run with it.

  11. December 19, 2008 at #

    tokbox rocks. agree there needs to be some sort of moderation

  12. Jeff
    December 22, 2008 at #

    Thanks for showing me TokBox. I love their service. Sending video emails has never been easier and I am going to use it to connect with multiple family members across the country on Christmas morning. TokBox Christmas present opening is going to be really cool.

  13. December 25, 2008 at #

    Tokbox is crazy. The other night "Los" laugh keep coming back around even after he was gone! Good times.

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