Your idea wold be very useful.
The only problem I see is that not too many CH people use the chat section we have now, so I'm not sure how much demand your product has in the CH community. Perhaps you could expand your conferencing idea to incorporate other communities as well?

Ignoring the different time zones: your idea is good.
Like it.
Tommy

Now I think this IS a good idea...(quelle surprise...!)

If you wanted to use ooVoo for something like this, there is a function where you can set up groups for easy contact and you can use the text chat facility at the same time as the video app if you wanted to swap notes.

I know it's probably not as exclusive or tailor-made as you're envisioning but it might work for now - and I'd love to hear how you got on (good and bad) if you use it. I do use it in a business context with my colleagues and not just because they tell me to!

oovooworld.com is my blog that collects all the reviews and comparisons around ooVoo so it might be a useful base from which to see what could suit you.

Cheers, Molly

do you work for oovoo?

Not directly, I work as an independent writer for the ooVooworld blog which they sponsor

ooh well thats pretty cool

The video conferencing should be inside the console I'm trying to get made. But I think mabye a stripped down oovoo would work well in there

um, PJ, are you saying that the facility you long for now exists?

I 2nd Jill's question. Are you throwing in the towel or just acknowledging a competitor? If the later, please tell us a few ways your product would be better?

it all prospective

don't jump on my ass

What i was saying is "I long for" the two (or 3) ideas to be combined. I like both mine and moogy's idea and were starting to collaborate on a new idea. A smaller version of mine and a larger version of his. And the video would tie in great with both of them.

Alright. Well thats good. Sorry for "jumping on your ass". haha. I didn't intend to. =]

Cool idea!

its alright man

last night was a bad night for me

sorry for jumping jumping on your ass after you unintentionally jumped on mine ahaha

in the hetero way

Yep, like it, it needs to be integrated fully at least into the businesses section.

I agree this would be a nice feature especially for collaborating on businesses. One neat feature is if you could have a "conference now" button on the icon. Maybe ooVoo could be integrated into the CH site similar to the way that YouTube is.

PS - thanks for introducing me to ooVoo - very cool.

Yah, this would be a nice feature to have added to the wonders we all call CH...

It is a good idea. I think more interaction would be beneficial.

Hey I added an Elevator

just in case you wanted something more...

yay this is great

Do you really think so?

Or are you just trying to get points you selfish whore?

That was a joke by the way

ilymtl

(no one knows that means teehee)

Maybe you could incorporate some of the tools from Zoho. Zoho Meeting (their conferencing tool) is free right now, but it looks like they plan to start charging for it.

http://www.zoho.com/

Why doesn't oovoo have a Mac client?

btw patrick_jones i do just want the points, but then again, so do you. :p

I don't know why Oovoo doesn't support macs.

I'll look into it for you buddy, or mabye Oovooworld can help you with that one

put it in with your other idea. makes both stronger

There's lots of external collaboration tools available, and certainly CH can't specifically incorporate them all. Videoconferencing, whiteboards... does anyone have a suggestions WHERE and HOW external tools could be easily incorporated into CH layout? For example, a business Wiki (so any active business) will take a link to anywhere... but I don't think the Wiki pages typically see a lot of traffic... people don't generally head straight to a biz wiki page when they're checking it out. CH could standardize on one service provider's collaboration service (as we currently use Campfire for general chat) BUT... I don't think CH hard-coding in a particular solution is wise. Maybe we'd be better off allowing some more flexible html embeds on a biz default landing page?

Hey, I went away for Canada Day, came back and found out I'd spent the weekend virtually jumping on some part of Patrick_Jones with Fitzpatrick! Wow, who knew ;-)

Anyway, what I would find useful is one-stop shopping for links to external tools. I would want one-line descriptions, perhaps organized into categories, with clickable links to the various things.

Patrick_Jones, this could be a product, a pretty simple and useful one - a guide to collaboration tools.

PJ ... it looks like some potential synergies with crowdsource conference (dew2501) and crowdsource idea development tools (dukenstein.)

As Gordon has mentioned "hardcoding into CH may not be viable" but Jill's idea of having a link repository with short descriptions of useful collaboration apps could be the ticket we all need.

Let us combine our skills and minds to create a merged idea for voting next round and then Get Er Done!

duken:
As much as I hate that phrase "get er done", I think doing a collab would be great.

PM me and lets get started

amazing

truly amazing

Patrick, apart from earning yourself GPs with your insightful self-comments <laughs>, do you have an update to offer?

any commnets from CH themselves?

Launch some dimdim meetings on http://www.dimdim.com is OpenSource as well. Pick a day and time and launch it, see if people will come by.

Ask a link on the site over here or maybe a calender on this site to add events would help as well.