“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.