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Today’s guest post is by Matthias Galica, Product Manager @WooMe.com.
What do you call something that’s never existed before? Remember rolling your eyes at the first mention of “social networking”, “social bookmarking”, or “micro-blogging” – only to see them end up in the popular lexicon?
That’s sometimes the difficult flipside to facilitating an entirely new and [...]
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WooMeTV went live today. The original Woome made it fun to jump into conversations with random people. But what about the rest of us who can’t make it into these videochats? WooMeTV is the logical progression of WooMe, basically an archive of WooMe sessions.
WooMeTV is for people have grown tired of looking at social network [...]
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Online video introduction site WooMe sent me the results of a Harris Interactive poll that point to one of the main reasons why online dating sites fail – because there is no live interaction with video.
I disagree that video is a main reason why online dating sites have trouble attracting new members and creating lasting [...]
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Check out the WooMe traffic trajectory (monthly visitors). Here are a bunch of YouTube videos made by the founder, Stephen Stokols.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7qBtcrWvzM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJZEZHbpKds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOCecpStCNc
There are several more related videos at youTube. Steven is pretty smooth, knowledgeable about the space, knows how to sell the value proposition to the money guys, press and consumers. He knows how to pump [...]
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WooMe is doing a promotion with bands like Right On Dynamite and Mudvayne. Band members will be in WooMe sessions and people can talk with them live.
Looks like you can only chat with ROD. You can win schwag if a WooMe “secret agent” overhears you talking about Mudavyne.
Secret agents listening in on our conversations? You [...]
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Woome now works with my camera setup, so I ventured online to host and participate in a few sessions. All week I’ve been getting emails from 21 year old women wanting to get to know me better.
First I am greeted with this image.
Ok, it’s beta, no big deal.
I set up a session, “post hottub relaxation.” [...]
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I’ve been videoconferencing since 1994, in fact, the original Connectix Quick Cam right here, next to my original Apple Newton and a hard drive the size of an end table.
For me, text chat in an instant message window is fine for friends, but for business and meeting new people, I prefer the additional emotive bandwidth [...]
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