Adobe’s preparing a VoIP Flash player
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Adobe has included VoIP features in the last released version of Acrobat. We underestimated their ambitions. “Adobe Systems wants to replicate its success in video space in the VoIP arena, making it easy to embed voice into web applications,” reports GigaOM (via ZeGang).
GigaOM has learnt of a secret start-up project currently being incubated by the $1.9 billion in annual sales software giant. Some members of this startup come from the Macromedia Breeze (now called Acrobat Connect Professional) conferencing group. (Breeze is a Flash based web-conferencing system, much like WebEx.) Though less than a year old, the start-up has started to attract some serious VoIP talent.
Sources say, Dr. Henry Sinnreich, generally known as “The Godfather” of SIP (the Session Initiation Protocol) is helping the team, though we have no details about his role within the project. He was most recently the chief technology officer of Jeff Pulver’s VoIP greenhouse, Pulver.com, and prior to that worked for MCI.
With the video-enabled Flash player, “Macrodobe” or “Adomedia” helped video sharing startups emerge. Imagine just what a VoIP-embedded Flash version could do to the VoIP domain.
But the truth is, the breed of this new Flash would threaten current VoIP players, as all video-sharing sites will be those who will the biggest advantages of it. Two example of uses: People watch videos, and in the same time, chat to each other; People get on the site to talk for free, and could discover the video services.
Sep 22, 2006 | By Nuno
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