Vol. 1 - No. 18
June 2006
Taking a look at "no-cost/low-cost" "grass-roots" peer-to-peer group-based Internet Conferencing:
The Amazing iVisit.com experience
It's called iVisit - This is hard to believe...but true: group-based, cross-platform, face-to-face, real-time Internet conferencing for 8 participants.... with industrial strength web-touring, dynamic application window sharing, with always on, low overhead background "virtual office" and instant messaging capability, and even drag-and-drop webcasting of Quicktime movies...for only $49.95....a year for the "Plus" version...and the "Lite" version is free! (That equates to $4.16 a month...less than that Grand Caramel Latte your waistline and your blood sugar doesn't need anyway.) The only "gotcha" is that it's peer-to-peer Internet conferencing with no secure central web server, so IT shops in larger businesses and higher ed and governmental institutions may elect to ban it like the plague because of legitimate security concerns, but smaller businesses and community-based organizations, who aren't as concerned about peer-to-peer security and willing to take the risk, are already starting to jump all over this....just like Skype peer-to-peer IP phone service took off and look how well Skype has done....in the world marketplace. Folks at iVisit as of this date...claim that they already have over 3 million installations with over 2 billion user minutes served...with no minute-by-minute per participant charges...hmmm an instant audience for an international iVisit-based grassroots IPTV "station"...Calling all wannabee television producers for our first "reality" TV show.... "The Network"...remember where you read about it first... in the June 2006 issue of The New World Communicator.
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| This is a powerful small business development and community resource development tool ...when coupled with an intelligent communications solutions approach and when used to deliver the mission-critical learning that small business and community-based organizations need in this 21st century world of ours
That's why we are excited about it, because with a capability so powerful, and so low cost we can using this resource as part of a new grassroots "Information for Community Resource Development" direction that even larger corporate sponsors, broadband service providers, and market savvy IPTV front-runners will want to get behind. Talk to us about it.
"All small businesses and community groups ought take a serious look at iVisit and other grass-roots capabilities like this...with this we can do grassroots IPTV " - Art Johnson
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"Up until now, fuller feature group-based, cross-platform face to face, real-time Internet conferencing with built-in voice-over-IP could only be had, starting in the the under $5,000 range for a 5 seat license one time license, and although security is still way better in these fully encrypted SSL-type institutional type client/server systems they presented price threshold, performance, and support challenges", says consultant Art Johnson
"Although the more expensive systems will still have their place in higher education and institutions demanding more security, the new "no cost..almost no cost" peer-to-peer, group-based face-to-face, real-time, Internet conferencing capability ...affordable by even the smallest of businesses or community-based businesses, opens up entire new vistas of business development opportunity", he adds.
"The challenge and in the opportunity...as always is in the education of small and community-based business people, many of whom already have a decent Internet connection, a decent computer and even a webcam and some kind of digital camcorder with low-cost or no-cost editing....now with IPTV (what used to be called "interactive TV" ) hitting the marketplace, it's about time that consumers themselves, and small businesses, and community groups started to move forward with mediating their own futures and generating some of their own context-based ad revenue. |
| New World Communications as always is at the "cutting edge" (sometimes the "bleeding edge"..admittedly) of what's new, but if you'd like to learn more about where we are going with us, please contact us at: 425-844-8908 or ajohn@newworldcom.com |
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