Corbeam - Commercial Version Of Mebeam

Having been a long time member of the core testing group for the Mebeam project, I am happy to announce the upcoming release of the commercial version

Aptly named Corbeam.

To refresh your memories, Mebeam is an initiative started by a super-talented Australian programmer, to provide multi-video conferencing facilities over the internet, Free, without an application download. Using Flash technology, it has seen a meteoric rise in use recently to in excess of X million users.

I recently used Mebeam to create a multi-video and audio hook-up, enabling family members, who were unable to attend, to participate in a family gathering. The session lasted, uninterrupted and of incredible clarity for in excess of 2 hours.

Other longer sessions have been held too.

Corbeam will be the culmination of 5 long years of intensive coding and testing.

From the website...

CorBeam

CorBeam is set to take the corporate world by storm. It provides all the sophistication of a top level video conferencing set up with NO infrastructure investment whatsoever. CorBeam is a fully hosted, totally secure video conference and video recording system that provides cost effective communication worldwide or within the organization for greatly improved business efficiency.

Improved communication has long been near the top of the wish list for senior executives around the world.

Integrating CorBeam into your corporate communications strategy will provide many advantages to your organisation.

Video Multi chat
Worldwide video conferencing facility, that allows up to 32 individuals to log in to a room and chat. The only requirement is a webcam and the room password.

Video recording
Users can record video of themselves for use as CVs, broadcast training and other information or for anything your imagination can dream up. The video can be cleaned up and edited using the online editing tool kit allowing cut, paste, crop and other functions.

Video archiving
Recorded videos can then be archived for retrieval at a later date.

Session recording and distribution
One of the key benefits of CorBeam is the ability to record an entire session. Using this feature, all participants in the video conference are recorded into a single multi-stream recording. This session can be saved, archived and or delivered via email. It can even be split up for selective distribution.

Email and SMS invitation system
CorBeam Conferences take place in secure, private chat rooms set up especially for the occasion and deleted up completion of the conference. Participants are invited to attend the conference via email and SMS invite. CorBeam contains its own address book facility. It also integrates with Outlook as well as IM communities such as MEEBO and JABBA.

Buy a room
The billing mechanism is very straight forward. Register as a customer, complete a simple credit card transaction and create your secure room. This very simple system is ideal for individuals, SMBs and roaming employees who wish to keep in contact. Larger organisations or anyone wanting ongoing facilities can simply create an account with CorBeam attached to a credit card. You simply allocate passwords to the individuals who need access to the account. Comprehensive traffic and usage reporting allows you to keep tabs on your costs and hierarchical access allows different users access to more or less facilities within your CorBeam admin area.

CorBeam will be launching soon! Check back in the near future for further details.