Spice up your web with Skypecast (1/2)
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This week, Skype once again recaptured the buzz, unveiling an amuse-bouche version of its forthcoming Skype 2.5 that can host up to 100 people in the same conference virtual room.
But a hundred is a lot of people to manage in the same time. And once only three participants decide to loudly disagree with each other, big conference calls just become big cacophonies.
There are several ways to use the Skypecast. We separated them into two posts. The first couple of ideas concern business in general and the other is more dedicated to online gaming.
Being eBay instead of eBay
So far, besides the eBay Switzerland and China exceptions, Skype hasn’t landed on the common eBay seller toolkit. But we don’t need to be eBay to do auctions on the Net, do we? For instance, online shop sites have now efficient tools to start flash sales.
Here’s a possible scenario: Provide a description of the objects, warn customers and friends that a flash sale is coming. Of course, the first 100 people can get those ‘insane’ discounts. And sweet the moment even more, to let’s add an eBay-auction level: Just like in Wall Street, those who will shout louder than others will get their bet recorded.
At the end of the day, your ears might drop off, but at least, you will bring some lively moments in this always-silent Internet. And your customers might like it.
Interactive symposiums
Some people are invited to speak on a specific topic. You too are invited, as let’s say, 80 other people, although none of you is allowed to talk. At the end of the conference, during the “questions from the public” time, you could ask for precisions, or share your point of view.
… Wait! This is so much close to a conference call. Yes, it’s true. But the most interesting comes…
You can record the very entire online symposium and publish it for example to show how good you are in political debate; to provide some very interesting academic seminars you made with high profile students of your botanic classes; or to increase the diffusion of your financial quarterly results, usually restricted to stakeholders and business oriented journalists.
Up to now, we stumbled on two initiatives of this kind. The first one is from Francis Pisani, who works as a tech columnist for the Spanish daily El Pais and as a blogger for the French daily Le Monde. The second one is from Michael “Techcrunch” Arrington, although the Arrington’s experiment relies on another service, Waxxi.
Keep reading the second part.
May 7, 2006 | By Nuno
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