LifeSize Communications

I talked about H.264 a while ago as a great standard for distributing high-quality video. Would you be surprised to find that H.264 is also used for high-definition video conferencing?

LifeSize Communications provides interesting solutions for businesses and all sorts of organizations, from international NGO’s, to governmental agencies. The ability to communicate is important; the ability to see each other in LifeSize is a luxury, made possible by their telepresence solutions. Long-distance communication is so much more effective when everyone can see the others’ gestures, facial expressions, and body language.

Let’s talk more about the video. In October of last year, LifeSize Communications “rocked the high definition conferencing world” when they released a 720p product, allowing for high-definition telepresence on a typical broadband connection. The resolution is 1280×720, and amazingly, 30 fps. Typical (competing) video conferencing solutions are simply webcam quality; they aren’t well suited to a business environment or one in which the appearance of face-to-face communication is essential. LifeSize products lets you meet with the illusion of life-sized participants!

These are great solutions for any small business, enterprise, or organization. The best video conferencing solutions around!

Brought to you by our sponsors at LifeSize Communications.

(5 votes, average: 4 out of 5)

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10 reasons Facebook is hated

I’m not posting this, someone else has. Go and read “10 Reasons I Hate Facebook“. Almost sums it up perfectly.

The one I probably agree more intensely than the privacy point is the amount of e-mail. Well, yeah. That’s why I completely removed myself from all current and future mailings from Facebook. This was a link in one of the annoying messages titled “—– has added you as a Friend on Facebook”. (And I never even had an account… never gave Facebook permission to flood my inbox with dozens of similar messages.) I simply chose the legally-valid action: opt-out.

I’m never going to sign up for Facebook, even if I desperately need to find someone. And if you can resist your urges, refuse using Facebook, you can be a noble person too.

(4 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)

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Facebook Privacy Concerns

This is my first post in a series about Facebook and why you shouldn’t be using it.

In their own words

From the Facebook Privacy Policy:

You post User Content (as defined in the Facebook Terms of Use) on the Site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.

Facebook may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the Facebook service through the operation of the service (e.g., photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience.

When you use Facebook, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., a friend or someone in your network), such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos, Marketplace listings or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, Marketplace listings or other items , this information may become publicly available.

In simple English: Facebook collects a huge amount of information about you and makes that huge amount of information available to others.

Do the users ever read this?

I truly wonder whether the children between the ages of 13 and 18 ever read the Privacy Policy, and if so, whether or not they understand it.

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(4 votes, average: 4 out of 5)

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