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Sightspeed Uses Flash For Light |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Tuesday, 08 January 2008 |
With the social networking sights cleary in its sights, SightSpeed is
developing a no-download version of its video chat service and is hoping to encourage third party developers touse the solution as a platform.
SightSpeed says the new gateway application which it is calling SightSpeed Light is being developed entirely using Adobe Flash so it will work on
any computer through any standards-based Web browser, with no downloads
or installation required.
SightSpeed Light will
offer free video chat and video mail between members of the same
social network and the company plans to implement it on MySpace,
LinkedIn, Salesforce.com, Plaxo, Orkut, and Hi5 and "many other
OpenSocial social networking sites".
However, the application is also designed to run on social
networks based on Google's OpenSocial platform and SightSpeed is hoping to encourage other developers who are building
applications with Google's APIs to add video using SightSpeed within
the applications they are developing.
"With SightSpeed Light, we're expanding our portfolio to make it easier
than ever for people to get started with video chat or to send and
receive video messages," said SightSpeed CEO Peter Csathy.
"As growing
numbers of people participate in online social-network sites, and with
the proliferation of embedded webcams in PCs, Macs, mobile phones and
other devices, video communications is quickly moving to the forefront
of the social-networking experience.
"And because no one understands or
delivers Internet-based video communications better than SightSpeed,
you can expect that our widget-just like our other services-will raise
the bar in terms of ease of use and overall performance."
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