Sightspeed

SightSpeed Marketing VP Eric Quanstrom joined us on this morning’s SquawkBox conference call.  This call was inspired by the fact that SightSpeed seems to be multiplying the number of ways that you can use their technology pretty dramatically. They’re touching everything from MySpace to corporate video conferencing.   It seemed a good opportunity to hear from one of the market leaders in desktop video how the market is evolving.

We covered SightSpeed’s product offerings, corporate video versus personal desktop video, and how the new SightSpeed Lite widgets embedded in MySpace and Hi5 have different usage models from traditional video calling.  Along the way we also talked about the background trends in the industry that are driving the adoption of video, such as the inclusion of video on almost all new consumer laptops.

On the conference call: Eric Quanstrom, Mike Pruyn, James Body, Jeb Brilliant, Cheryl Cink, Sheryl Breuker, Jim Courtney, Bill Volk and Andy Abramson

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SightSpeed’s Eric Quanstrom gave us the low-down on SightSpeed Light for MySpace this morning — what it does, how it works, why MySpace, what the experience of developing for MySpace was like, and a whole bunch more.

Embedded in user’s profiles, Sightspeed Light lets users talk in real time, or with threaded video conversations. Although it’s separate from SightSpeed currently, Eric told us that an upcoming release would allow SightSpeed Light users to connect with SightSpeed users who aren’t on MySpace. Eric also revealed that SightSpeed is likely to take SightSpeed Light to another OpenSocial platform in the near future, and that the company may also release plug-in’s for popular blogging platforms.

With us on the call: Alec Saunders, Neal Saferstein, Randall howard, Dan York, Jeanette Fisher, Aaron Huslage, Adam Somer, Ian Hood, Jim Byrnes, Mike Pruyn, and of course, Eric Quanstrom.

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Sightspeed Light, for MySpace

April 23, 2008

The team at Sightspeed upped the ante on video chat yesterday, announcing Sightspeed Light, for MySpace. They’re offering video mail, public video posting, and video chat to MySpace users.  And in a move reminiscent of some other startups, like Seesmic and Hictu, they’re offering threaded video conversations as well.  Record a short video, post it [...]

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Sightspeed’s partnership with VTel

February 27, 2008

When I had Peter Csathy from Sightspeed on Squawkbox last week I asked him about small business uses for his services.  Sly fellow that he is, he essentially said "Stay tuned".  Yesterday Sightspeed and VTel announced a partnership targeted at small and medium business.  Under the terms of their deal: “SightSpeed Business”, their SMB focused [...]

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Video conferencing is a dog of a market.

October 14, 2007

Andy is feeling his oats this morning in Madrid.  He cites Steve Adubato’s piece in the Newark Star-Ledger on how to make video conferences more productive, and then takes the entire video conferencing industry to task for not understanding their customers’ needs.  Andy sees web cam based solutions, like the excellent system from SightSpeed, as [...]

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Sightspeed: the Killer App of choice

May 8, 2007

Sightspeed is really cooking with gas.  Yesterday, they received Editors Choice from Killer App magazine.  Another step on their march to global domination of the desktop video market!  You could read the article, but perhaps the best way to explain, and to show off their product, is to jump on over to Sightspeed, and get [...]

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VoIP is hard… who'd a thunk it?

April 16, 2007

Does anyone remember when it was hard to set up the internet on a PC?  The bad old days of installing a TCP/IP stack, configuring IP addresses for gateways, and DNS servers, and then using gopher to browse to your favorite sites? That's where we are with VoIP.  And Forrester, bless their hearts, have just published [...]

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Sightspeed Enhanced

December 7, 2006

There’s a new Sightspeed out, but I’m travelling these days and haven’t had a chance to look at it.  According to what I’ve heard, it’s all server side enhancements, which means no downloads.  Check out the details on Luca Fillighedu’s site. Nice new layout, by the way, Luca!

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Sightspeed and MTV

September 30, 2006

We may be seeing a bit of an answer to the question I asked last week, which was how should the communications industry think about video?  Andy Abramson reports that his client Sightspeed has just landed a deal to provide casting call services for MTV.  Congratulations to Peter Csathy and his team.  And, for those [...]

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Sightspeed. #1 Again

September 25, 2006

Congratulations to the team at Sightspeed!  The October 17th PC Mag ranks them the number one pick for video calling, once again. 

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