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Category: Video Streaming

Importance of Body Language in Video Conferencing

While what you’re saying in a video conferencing meeting is very important, so is how you are saying it. Presentation and body language go a long way toward conveying what you want to say and engaging your peers. If you you’re your next meeting to be more than just another webinar, you need to consider how you come across to your viewers.

Video conferencing meetings are collaborative and engaging experiences when done correctly, simply because they let others see a real person and not just a voice on the other end of the line.

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October 22, 2014
8 Tips to Get Rid of Video Buffering

Imagine watching a movie online and then right in the middle of a great scene, and then the video starts buffering, causing the video to stop playing. This scenario has been repeated countless times among the millions of Internet users and it is just about the most frustrating thing.

While some buffering is acceptable at the start of the video because the browser is caching the video data, buffering that continues throughout the video can be very irritating, not to mention time-wasting.

Before you berate your Internet service provider for poor service, there are a few checks and tweaks you can do on your end of things to ensure smooth streaming of your videos and movies and avoid that whole ‘pot calling the kettle black’ situation. Here are 8 tips that you can use to try to get rid of video buffering.

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August 27, 2014
How Can Web Conferencing Be Used in the Classrooms?

It is reported that around 80% of the people associated with the education sector believe that web conferencing has significantly helped schools globally in achieving their goals of academics, according to Online Teaching and Learning Resource Guide. This sudden rise has proven how efficient and effective this tool and method is in the education sector. Web conferencing is an interactive method of implementation especially in the online classrooms. It has several benefits to offer to the students.

There are several innovative software related to web conferencing that have yielded magnificent benefits, not just for the students but also to the teachers. These interactive and synchronous tools add the factor of accessibility. Accessing lessons from anywhere in the world has become easier than before. The concept of active learning has experienced a humongous rise due to the introduction of this method. Active learning has been witnessed by the teachers as well as the students due to the introduction of various visualization and feedback methods.

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June 30, 2014
How We Used the Internet Before YouTube [Infographic]

There can be little doubt about the popularity of YouTube. Just about everybody has visited YouTube at least once or twice, and some of us pay daily (hourly?) visits to watch our favorite videos or surf for new videos. What did we do with our time on the Internet before YouTube, though? The infographic below, created by our friends at YouTube Downloader, lays out some of the milestones along the way to that grand time waster, YouTube.

Since it first came online, we’ve looked to the Internet to connect with others and find entertainment. Before we started being able to watch our friends’ videos, we would chat with our friends online. A number of sources allowed us to do that, even before Facebook came around in 2005. We could log onto a chat room on IRC, or use AOL Chat rooms to find new and old friends to hang out with online.

Some of us would play roleplaying games online. For many years, multiplayer dungeons (called MUSHes) were a great source of fun for gamers all over the world. You’d never believe it today, but we typed everything we wanted to say or do, and that was how we played the game! Later, we’d see the advent of graphic roleplaying games that were online and had huge followings, like Ever Quest and later Worlds of Warcraft.

These pastimes still kick around a bit, but they aren’t nearly as popular now as they were before YouTube. These days, the online community checks Facebook, then goes to YouTube to watch videos and post those videos on Facebook. It might be hard to believe there was life before YouTube, but the infographic below will show you a few more of the things we did before we could watch any kind of video imaginable on our computers, phones, or tablets.

June 6, 2014
How to Download YouTube Videos on Your PC, Android and Tablets

YouTube is one of the most popular video sites containing videos from all over the world and on absolutely any topic you can think of. These videos if present in your device may come in handy at any time. Unfortunately there is no direct downloading link given on the site. In this article steps to download videos according to the devices is given.

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January 15, 2014
The Rise of Video Conferencing [Infographic]

As technology becomes ever-more sophisticated, it can help us to change the way we do business, streamlining processes helping us to save time and money. A technological advancement that is being used by more and more companies is video conferencing.

A recent survey by Powwownow discovered that how video conferencing is affecting the way more and more businesses have meetings and communicate with each other.

Cost-effective

So many businesses are looking for ways to save time and cut costs. Lower budgets mean that companies need to be resourceful with what they have. A trip out of the office for staff to go to meetings can be costly between the train and taxi fares and daily expenses. The survey found that 70% of SMEs would rather participate in a video conference than travel to a business meeting.

Replacing the Telephone

At one time holding a teleconference was considered a cost-effective way to communicate business to business without travelling.

However, the survey revealed that the average attention span on a telephone call or conference was only 23 minutes, while the average attention span for video conferences was 35 minutes. It is expected that video conferencing will replace traditional means of business communication.

A Time for Change

As more businesses are adopting video conferencing as means of communicating and holding meetings without incurring travel expenditure, more and more companies believe that it will soon replace conference calls completely. 65% of CIOs believe that desk phones will become redundant over the next few years.

This infographic explores the results of the survey showing that more companies are considering video conferencing as a more cost-effective way to communicate as well as working remotely without incurring travel costs or relying on older technology such as teleconferencing equipment.

Source: The Rise of Video Conferencing

December 18, 2013
UnoDNS from UnoTelly Review

If you live in the United States you have probably enjoyed the freedom of viewing a lot of streaming content. Much of that content can’t be viewed outside of the United States, so for people like me who would like to also view that content, we are pretty much out of luck. Well, almost.

Being a Canadian, I felt joy when I heard that Netflix was finally going to be available in Canada, but unfortunately became disappointed when I realized that much of what Americans can view would not be available in my country. In the age of the Internet, which connects the world in a way no other technology has done in the past, there are still many barriers in place that limit how we are connected.

There is a solution to knock down those geo-block barriers, however, and one particular service provided by UnoTelly is called UnoDNS.

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November 8, 2013
The Power of 6 Seconds: Vine & Your e-Commerce Business

Unscrew the cap on a bottle of water. Put a stamp on an envelope. Open the door to let the dogs outside.

These are a few examples of everyday tasks that usually take about six seconds to complete. But now, thanks in part to an innovative video feature called Vine, companies including e-commerce businesses are now using exactly six seconds to spread the word about who they are, and what they do.

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October 10, 2013