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TokBox Is The Hotness

December 15, 2008
by John Saddington

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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John Saddington

I am the CEO of 8BIT and a Full Time Entrepreneur/a>. I like what I do.

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  1. Leo Wurschmidt says

    December 16, 2008

    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.

    Reply
    • human3rror says

      December 16, 2008

      of course.

      Reply
  2. Brad says

    December 16, 2008

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

    Reply
    • human3rror says

      December 16, 2008

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

      Reply
  3. Leo Wurschmidt says

    December 16, 2008

    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.

    Reply
    • human3rror says

      December 16, 2008

      yeah. definitely need some moderation and controls.

      Reply
  4. 3amjosh says

    December 16, 2008

    This was quite fun.

    Reply
    • human3rror says

      December 16, 2008

      thanks for joining!

      Reply
  5. tonysteward says

    December 16, 2008

    Haha, yeah TokBox!

    Reply
  6. human3rror says

    December 16, 2008

    got your pic on there. insanity.

    Reply
    • tonysteward says

      December 16, 2008

      it was craziness…

      Reply
      • Leo Wurschmidt says

        December 16, 2008

        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! 🙂

        Reply
        • human3rror says

          December 18, 2008

          it was sweet.

          Reply
  7. Adrian Rodriguez says

    December 15, 2008

    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.

    Reply
    • human3rror says

      December 18, 2008

      it's still here…

      Reply
  8. Damon Billian says

    December 16, 2008

    Many thanks for the kind Tokbox mention.

    Reply
    • human3rror says

      December 16, 2008

      thanks for dropping a line damon!

      Reply
  9. Damon Billian says

    December 16, 2008

    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/).

    Reply
    • human3rror says

      December 16, 2008

      hehe. nice.

      Reply
    • Leo Wurschmidt says

      December 16, 2008

      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.

      Reply
  10. Damon Billian says

    December 16, 2008

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

    Reply
    • Leo Wurschmidt says

      December 16, 2008

      Damon,

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

      Reply
      • human3rror says

        December 18, 2008

        hehe.

        Reply
      • human3rror says

        December 18, 2008

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

        Reply
        • Leo Wurschmidt says

          December 18, 2008

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

          Reply
  11. sullied says

    December 19, 2008

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

    Reply
    • human3rror says

      December 19, 2008

      we rocked it today. moderation works.

      Reply
  12. Jeff says

    December 22, 2008

    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.

    Reply
    • human3rror says

      December 22, 2008

      yeah, for real! thing is very cool.

      Reply
  13. justinthesouth says

    December 25, 2008

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

    Reply

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