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June 16, 2004
"Instant-on" Breeze Meetings
Macromedia issued an interesting press release yesterday highlighting the "instant-on" capabilities of Breeze (made possible by the Flash player), and the new Breeze extensibility layer that allows for some interesting application integration. There's a link to a short, two-minute Breeze presentation that demos starting up a Breeze Live meeting from an IM client, and automatically inviting the people in the IM conversation into the Breeze meeting. The idea is that two people are chatting, and decide they need to talk in person or share their screens (the remote equivalent of looking over someone's shoulder), they can get a meeting up and running in a matter of seconds rather than minutes. It's a very cool concept as I find myself in that position all the time. Although it's easy to create Breeze meetings in the traditional way, simplifying the process by integrating aspects of Breeze into other applications makes it more practical, efficient, and accessible.
Posted by cantrell at June 16, 2004 11:03 AM
Comments
real nice stuff...
Posted by: ericd at June 16, 2004 12:03 PM
Breeze + Flash = da Bomb
Posted by: David K at June 16, 2004 1:04 PM
1) Isn't that like net meeting (7 years ago at least?) and windows messenger?
2) I found the breeze presentation/flash/chat device for macromedia's developer week chats to be so cumbersome I quit the chat after 20 minutes. Perhaps that was more of a server issue though.
Posted by: Greg Cerveny at June 16, 2004 1:59 PM
I would expect big things from this considering that the IM Logic board of directors includes both J.J. Allaire (co-creator of ColdFusion) and David Orfao (former CEO of Allaire).
Posted by: Steven Erat at June 16, 2004 3:55 PM