Lots of new users and great comments!
Well, we're over 150 users signed up for the the new live conferencing tool... exciting!
Pete at Mashable gave us a review with remarkably quick turnaround... he seemed to really like the concept of voice conferencing on blogs (and while mashable.com is a great blog itself, it is a blog focused on social nets... so Pete has two good perspectives here), he didn't like Java at all. He's a big fan of flash and spanked us for not using it.
I responded in a brief comment pointing out that when we began development on this VOIP tool, Flash was not really an option... it couldn't handle some tasks we needed to handle in a softphone. But, in their recent flash upgrade, I understand these issues have been addressed. So, we're taking Pete's comments to heart and are looking at a Flash version.
I also pointed out that when I labeled us a widget, I probably invited comparisons to other lightweight, sexy flash widgets out there. In fact, we are actually a full-blown VOIP softphone and are more comparable to Skype, Gtalk, Paltalk and others... those phones require you to download a client and don't have nearly as powerful of conferencing capabilities as we do...
Among the other good comments have been:
1) Need better instructions for how to use this thing (uhh... we agree. we're working on it. sorry!).
2) The widget should be made smaller so it can fit in a blog sidebar... a creative blogger at Singabloodypore figured out that you can just edit the width variable in the Javascript line and make it as skinny as you want! This means you can't see the number of active listeners, but we're working on a skinny version that will preserve all the info and STILL fit in a sidebar.
3) And folks want to be able to record their conference calls and create podcasts... as Talkr, we applaud that heartily and are working on that too and will have a clever solution ready ASAP. We think that could be a revolutionary application of this technology!
Time for lunch... and to check the new sign-ups! Later.
