VoIP Now: Talkr Voice Conferencing

VoIP Now: Talkr Voice Conferencing

Good article on VOIPnow that gets it, vis a vis podcasting. The live conferences will be exciting in and of themselves, but soon you'll be able to record and publish the calls as podcasts. That was a major reason for our acquisition of Talkr... getting an effective platform for the distribution of audio!

Quick comment... the author correctly notes that we should all be concerned about spammers entering our conference calls. We've reduced barriers for participation to almost zero... so of course, unscrupulous people will be taking advantage of that fact. This interference could be rough for bloggers and perhaps even worse when we roll out the version for social nets (what's worse than spammers? telemarketers!).

But, even our first version lets bloggers password protect their conferences (and create multiple conferences)... so if they want to have segregated, protected chats.its easy to do so. Maybe voice passwords are handed out upon registration, or a subscription to an RSS feed, something like that. Please give us your thoughts on how this would work the best.

In addition, we've got a whole bevy of moderating tools in the works... killing users that misbehave, etc. These will be crucial for really large chats. For example, when we webcast the 1996 Democratic National Convention, we had hundreds of people in multiple chats with Senators, cabinet members, etc. and we couldn't have done that without moderating tools.

We'll keep you posted on those developments, too.