Skype + Kodak = Kodak Photo Voice
Published January 3rd, 2006 in Main |
I was perusing a Flash Com user list earlier and came across an interesting mention by Brian Lesser about something that launched today called Kodak Photo Voice. What it is, is a Skype plugin that allows two people to talk with one another while sharing photo slideshow. Kodak is promoting it as a way for friends and families to share experiences, but it could also be used for giving online presntations via Skype, first by outputting Power Point fslides to .jpg and then using them as the source to build the slideshow. |
| One of the big drawbacks is that for now you can only share slideshows with one other person. I’m hoping that in future versions this will change so that it takes full advantage of the Skype conference call feature. This would make it possible for students in online courses to deliver presentations within small groups (up to five), which is something that would be very useful in a lot of the courses I support. .Another thing to mention is that Photo Voice is tied to the Kodak Easy Share service. This means that you have to sign up for a free account (no surprise there). The good news is that the sign up is fairly painless (it’s built directly within the app) and you don’t have to load your images to the online “Easy Share Gallery.” Instead you can share images that are stored on your hard drive which I think is pretty cool since I don’t have any desire to store images on the Kodak site.Other drawbacks? You guessed it, as is the case with almost every skype plugin, it’s only available to Windows users. This didn’t suprise me too much, but it means that you cannot share your images with mac users…
To continue with Skype, tomorrow I’ll discuss my experience using Verosee (beta) which is a skype-centric collaboration app that allows for fileVersioning, offlineSynch and DesktopSharing. |
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Dear Radio James;
Greetings from Buenos Aires. We are two Americans who came here in 2002 to build Verosee, a team collaboration software solution for SME’s using Skype (or not.) Born and raised in San Francisco, we fled the software scene to enjoy the opportunity to work and live here in Bs As before coming back to SF.
I would love to have your impressions on our solution as we think its price points for OfflineSynch, Desktop Sharing and FileVersioning (eliminating email attachments.) are ideal for small businesses. Please let me know if we can share a workspace, my Skype name is jasiano.
Good luck,
Jim