Tinychat - Free Online Group Video Chat Service - 1 views
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Ellen Summers on 16 Apr 10TinyChat is a web-based audio and video communication platform. It enables users to create group video chats or one-to-one (p2p) private video chats. With the group chats disposable or permanent rooms can be created with a simple URL for up to 400 participants and 12 live video streams. For the p2p video chat no sign up is necessary. It is secure and when the two people go to the same URL they are connected automatically and the call begins [1]. It doesn't require any downloads or plug-in's, and works on any browser and operating system [2]. TinyChat is a very social tool and can be connected with Facebook [4]. Now it has recently integrated with YouTube [5] for videos, Etherpad [6] for document collaboration and Flockdraw[7] for whiteboard features [2]. With YouTube, the administrator of the chat controls where to start, pause and end the video. Integrating Etherpad into a chat is simple and everyone in the chat can discuss a particular document while using Etherpads features as well as TinyChats. The document can also be saved and reopened in future video chats. Flockdraws whiteboard feature is similar to using Etherpad, but rather than using a document you can draw, paint, erase and write. With all these collaborative features TinyChat could become essential for any business that is spread globally [3]. [1] TinyChat. (2010). TinyChat. Retrieved April 16, 2010, from http://tinychat.com/about.html [2] Crunchbase. (2010). TinyChat. Retrieved 16 April, 2010, from http://www.crunchbase.com/company/tinychat [3] Rao, L. (2010). TinyChat Upgrade brings Etherpad, Whiteboard and YouTube Intergrations. Retreived 16 April, 2010, from http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/05/ti