Posts Tagged ‘video chatting’

Tango Voice and Video Calls

Posted in Tech on May 27th, 2011 by admin – Comments Off

Tango is application software that enables you to make free phone and video calls from whichever location you are at. It is supported on the three major platforms – 4G, 3G and Wi-Fi. Provided the person you are placing a call to has Tango installed and is operational on their phone, you can make free, high quality calls to them. You can begin with a mere voice call and graduate it to a video affair. The big savings on those necessary international calls as well as the affordability and ease of the app puts Tango in a class of its own.

Tango caters for the communication, constant connectivity and sharing ideals of both our personal and business lives. It is now possible to chat on video and share those special moments as they unfold.

Among other features, Tango makes it possible to place free phone calls to users with Tango running on their phones worldwide. With this comes a video call or chat rooms for no pay at all, across 3G and 4G as well as Wi-Fi. With Tango, both iOS and tablet phones are supported and therefore there is no limitation over connectivity for as long as Tango has been installed on a phone.

Some of the Android gadgets that are supported by Tango range from the Samsung GalaxyS to Galaxy Tab and Desire. HTC’s EVO, Incredible, Motorola Droid, Droid X, and Google Nexus S are the others. You do not need to add your buddies to Tango as the app does that automatically through analyzing possible users who use Tango. Tango checks for this information from phone numbers and email addresses saved on your phone. You can also invite your friends via email as well as text to join you on free Tango calls.

Tango does not require a log in and passwords to use it although a quick profile – which can be accomplished in seconds – means you are good to go. The front camera you can use to show yourself to the person you are on call with while you could use the rear camera to let them see what surrounds you in the process of the video call.

New developments have seen video fixes for the LG Optimus 2X, T-Mobile Galaxy S 4G, the T-Mobile Sidekick, LG Bryce, and Samsung Droid Charge. There have also been improvements on audio input and output quality for a majority of the Android-driven handsets like the HTC EVO.

As needs push more and more people to choose smart phones as their primary devices that aid their communication, so has the need for innovative, ground breaking applications to keep those gadgets as useful as possible. Tango is just one application software that is filling the much needed gap for a service that is reliable and touches a smart phone user’s life in a special way. Tango’s free video calls are just what today’s busy people leading crazy lifestyles and compartmentalized, heavily organized lives need.

Tango is absolutely free to download on your smart phone and use.

I'm addicted to TinyChat

Posted in Tech on December 8th, 2009 by admin – 1 Comment

TinyChat Takes on Stickam and Ustream With New Service and API

Posted December 8, 2009
Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 16, 2009 12:22 PM

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Over the last few months, TinyChat has established itself as a highly popular video chat service. Today, the company launched a new product, TinyChat.tv, which competes directly with established companies like Ustream and Stickam. Signing up and getting started with TinyChat.tv only takes a minute. Users can customize their video chat rooms with different themes, background images and colors. The old TinyChat.com, which doesn’t require signups, will continue to work, though users will get access to more features on TinyChat.tv.

Features

TinyChat.tv’s interface will feel very familiar if you used the regular TinyChat before.

Room owners can customize the look and feel of their rooms and decide if they want to force users to sign in with their Twitter or Facebook accounts. One feature we really liked on TinyChat was that users could type a random URL (tinychat.com/12345) and the service would automatically create a room with this URL. This feature hasn’t been enabled on TinyChat.tv yet, but TinyChat’s co-founder Dan Blake tells us that it will come back soon.

For $9.95 per month, users can also buy a pro membership that allows them to set passwords for rooms and stream higher quality video.

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For Developers: Free Streaming with TinyChat API

For developers, TinyChat now offers a comprehensive free application programming interface (API) that makes it easy for developers to create their own Ustream clones. Indeed, TinyChat.tv itself was built on top of this API. Earlier today, Dan Blake told us that TinyChat will not charge developers for bandwidth. Stickam currently charges $0.45 per gigabyte for its streamAPI white label service.

Overall, this is a nice upgrade to the regular TinyChat experience. The old TinyChat, where users don’t need to sign up will continue to operate. The big development is the API, however, and we are looking forward to seeing what developers will do with it.

Tinychat ist ein Startup das es ermöglicht innerhalb von wenigen Sekunden einen Chat mit Videofunktion zu öffnen. Dadurch können unter anderem Diskussionen die auf Twitter entstanden sind ausführlich bei Tinychat diskutiert werden, jetzt erweitert Tinychat sein Angebot und startet eine Live Video Streaming Portal.

Auf der Webseite Tinychat.tv kann man ab sofort einen eigenen Kanal eröffnen, dieses System funktioniert wie die erfolgreiche Dienste Ustream und Stickam. Entstanden ist die Plattform auf der Basis der Tinychat API – welche Funktionen die neue Plattform von Tinychat dem Benutzer bietet erfährt man auf der Webseite unter tinychat.tv.

Posted by Howard, Ignition Officer

With Tinychat.tv recently entering the live video streaming space, I thought it would be a great time to chime in with some thoughts on Tinychat.com and how it can be leveraged effectively to connect with students. We’ve been testing Tinychat for a while with clients and believe it can be a great tool to build relationship with prospective students.

Tinychat is an extremely simple video chat platform that allows up to 400 people to chat and 12 people to broadcast audio and video at once. The part that makes it truly “simple” is the login process. Users do not need to sign up for an account and can simply enter with a nickname or login with Twitter or Facebook Connect.

(Tinychat interface – Recent chat with some teammates from summer trip)

After Tinychat’s relaunch in May 2009, TinyChat has seen steady growth and has begun edging out Tokbox in unique traffic. Tinychat has been beating out Tokbox for one reason: the ease of use.

Now onto the fun part, how Tinychat can be used to reach students on the web. One way is to use student bloggers (or just students) and host a student panel through Tinychat. All they would need to do is login from their respective rooms and broadcast! A quick fan page post letting fans know it is going on can drive traffic to the session. The chat will be very organic compared to a regular, scheduled chat. The “impromptu” chats should prove to still be successful, as we’ve seen Facebook Fan Pages drive traffic well in the past. With Tinychat premium you can control who broadcasts, so that only your bloggers can broadcast while prospective students ask questions via text in chat. Another way is to have an admissions counselor do the exact same thing. Imagine being a prospective student with a question and having an e-mail back that says, “Do you just want to video chat? Talk with my at tinychat.com/(name).” Not only is it an opportunity to build relationship, but it gives a great human side to an admissions process that can seem very hostile to prospective students.
Another great perk of using Tinychat is that the users pretty much spread the word for you. When prospective students logon using Facebook Connect (as many do), Tinychat will publish to their Live Feed that they are currently chatting at X room. It looks like this:

Hope these ideas have helped start a good conversation on how Tinychat can be leveraged to connect with students; these are only the start of great ways Tinychat can be used. What do you think? Do you have any other ideas?

Notes:

Premium Membership details (may not be available with recent update):

Tinychat occasionally has audio problems and at times users have trouble getting their wecams connected. Make sure to plan ahead! If you have problems, Tinychat has great customer service: