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TinyChat.com – Video Conferencing in 2 Clicks

Posted by John Saddington on May 27, 2009

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TinyChat.com is pretty slick.

With literally 2 (or 3) clicks you can be video conferencing with others, sharing files, and even screensharing.

I did a very quick adhoc test and 12 courageous web-cam-enabled Tweets came to help me stress test the application.

Some things of note:

  • There is a cap on the amount of video streams set at 12.
  • Up to 100 users can be viewing though.
  • File sharing and screen sharing is super simple and easy to do.
  • You can boot, mute, change volume settings of all of the users (very nice feature here for moderation).
  • Video quality is pretty good, all things considered.
  • Text chatting is enabled with URLs auto-generated.
  • You can use Twitter to get the word out with a few clicks. Very nice feature.

The Pro Version has some additional features:

  • You can save the entire session (very cool) and record.
  • It’ll cost you $20 per month.
  • Passwords for privacy enabled at the Pro Level.
  • Higher video quality enabled.
  • Reserve up to 5 names for rooms.

All in all it could be a very handy (and quick) video conferencing solution for ministry or just creative meetings. The file sharing and screen-sharing is something that really sets it apart.

Thanks to those that helped me test! And look, they all did the “Human3rror” look (after the jump)!

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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14 Responses to “TinyChat.com – Video Conferencing in 2 Clicks”

  1. Micah Foster
    Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 2:20 am

    how does it compare to tokbox?

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    • human3rror
      Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 2:23 am

      it's different… and the screensharing and filesharing is awesome.

      the pro version is also pretty attractive because of the recording and export feature.

      Reply
  2. chrisdat
    Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 2:22 am

    Thanks John – that was a lot of fun. Also good to know what it can do. Seems like a great application and I'm sure I'll be using it in the future.

    Reply
  3. Jeff Krieger
    Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 2:23 am

    Cool. I tried to log on, but it said all the spots were filled. Even though I could see my login name on one of the cubes.

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    • human3rror
      Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 2:27 am

      i think there were definitely some technical issues with our test…

      Reply
  4. andydarnell
    Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 3:08 am

    Very cool. My wife and I just tried it out from across the room. It auto tweeted that we were in the room. Is there a way to not do that? Maybe I missed something.

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  5. James Eaton
    Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 3:51 am

    Had fun with you guys! We will have to do it again and do something more productive next time :) . Pretty cool stuff; I think I will be using this one for meetings and such in the future

    Reply
  6. Jim
    Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 1:31 pm

    that's awesome! looks like a decent alternative to tokbox and I love the social media icons at the bottom.

    Reply
  7. Paul Steinbrueck
    Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    Did you guys experience delays? I tried it out and with the video on there was a delay of a couple of seconds, with just audio there was a smaller but still noticeable delay.

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    • human3rror
      Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 2:55 pm

      it refreshes like every second…

      Reply
  8. Graham Brenna
    Monday, June 1, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    neeto!

    Reply

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