Squeeze more people in a meeting room!

Did you know you already have “points?”

It is given to you when you sign up and whenever you login (given once per day).
I’m sure you already wonder “what can I do with the points”

In Palbee, points would be the trading currency.
You can spend them to buy more meeting time, or more space in a meeting.

Points can be awarded or purchased (we call “Recharging points”).
Although we haven’t implemented the awarding policy yet, we are working on
with other payment clearing services such as PayPal.

Mean time, you can use the points for FREE!! (if you ask, we give you more points!!).
As you notice the tone of voice (many exclamation points here & there), we’re very excited, too.

Since the launch of the service, many users asked us to make much room for a meeting. Because the server capacity restriction, we can not offer NINE people conferences for free but you can have them without spending too much.

Better yet, it is free until we finish the integration with PayPal.

Now, how to do it?

As you see, at the lounge, the meeting option has been changed.
If you’d like to add more participants, select “Add 4 More People,” then
your meeting room should have interface like below.

Of course, to have more people in a meeting, you need to spend 10 points.

If you don’t, ASK ME TO ASSGIN MORE POINTS TO YOU.

E-mail me (albertk@zenitum.com) the requests and brief reason that your need
for the requests.

Have FUN!

Albert

New Press Release: Record your Webinars and Share Anywhere for Free

Record your Webinars and Share Anywhere for Free

 We just released a new PR.

Record your Webinars and Share Anywhere for Free

Seoul, Korea, September 25, 2007 – The Free Video Conferencing Website Palbee.com is launching two new Web 2.0 features – Free Recording and Sharing. 

Palbee.com has been providing free video conferencing services since its launch in July of this year.  Now users can record video conference sessions such as Webinars, and share their recordings by embedding them in their blogs or using widgets. 

To record, users need to select the “Meeting + Recording” option before starting a video conference session.  When finished, all the recordings can be accessed via the user’s personal page, My Page.  Each user can store up to 2 GB of recordings, or more than 50 different sessions, at no charge. To share the recorded sessions, users either embed the Palbee Player or plug-in the Palbee Widget into their blogs or any other web page. It’s as easy as embedding video. 

Although many consider video conferencing sessions to be a group activity, “At Palbee, you can come alone and record your webinars, presentations, or lectures,” said Albert Kim, CEO of Zenitum Entertainment Computing.  “This format of delivering a message, presentation slides with video and audio, is very effective over the Internet, especially for marketing and education.” 

One local university hospital is using the Record and Share feature for educating its web site visitors on public health.  “We are getting positive feedback.  By offering simple presentations on our own web site with video of a doctor, we can communicate better with outpatients,” said Joongsang Cho, Director of the East-West Medical Center, Kyunghee University in Seoul. 

“The video conferencing has been treated as a professional tool,” added Albert, “I certainly think individual experts will enjoy this Web 2.0 feature at Palbee.com.” 

To record and share presentations, visit http://www.palbee.com

If you have any question regarding the PR, contact Matthew Weigand, Manager of Media Relations

Now, It’s Playback Time!

For the time being, you’re only able to followings on recording,

– Host Video and Audio
– Whiteboard

Other recording features such as videos & auidos feed from all attendees would be available in September.

But, I think it would be a great tool for recording seminars, presentations or eLearning contents.

If you follow the instruction on my last post, there would be no problem on recording your presentation (or senmiar, or eLearning)
Once you finished, go back to your “MyPage.” Click “MyPage” link on the upper right side when you logged in to PalBee.

Now, you can see your page. On the middle, you would see the list of your recorded meetings. (In the red box)

 If you click one of those, Palbee player pops up like this..  

 Interface components are pretty much the standard.
You can also maximize the window by blowing up.

Now, it’s your turn. I’d love to see some nice webinars,
presentations and eLearnings.

– Albert

Now you can record the meeting!!

Recording option is now “almost” ready.

What do I mean “almost”??
Although you can jump ahead and record your meetings but it could have  some unseen errors lurk around before our engineering staffs debug.

Thus, you can use the recording option at your own risk now
– meaning we do not guarantee the preservation of your contents

Let’s look at the picture below

To record your meeting, all you need to do is to select “Meeting + Recording”
option. Of course, you need to type up the meeting title.
Then click “Start Meeting” for initiation.

Just like the regular meeting, you can proceed the meeting, or video conferencing.
Once you finish the meeting, your recorded contents are now saved in the server.

Then, where you can play back, or check the recorded contents??
Go to your “MyPage” and you will see the list of recorded meetings
on the right side.

Soon, you can plug the recorded contents on your blogs, social network
sites or your company pages just like you do with YouTube.

Hope you enjoy the recording meeting.

Albert

Palbee on Korea IT Times

Free Online Video Conferencing

by Matthew Weigand
matthew@ittimes.co.kr

The Internet was made for communication, and one of the oldest and most widespread applications on the Internet was Internet Relay Chat, or IRC. It was, and still is, used as a real-time text messaging divided into channels and networked all around the world. It is the grandfather of today’s IM programs such as MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and Google Talk.

Now, using the technologies of that make the Web 2.0 so great, Zenitum Entertainment Computing has created a video version of IRC. The Korean digital content and software company has announced a web-based and Flash-based video conferencing service called Palbee.com. The web site allows registered users to video conference with up to four other users for up to one hour. And registration, of course, is free.

Because it is web-based, the video conferencing can be used anywhere, any time, on any machine. And because the technology is written using Flash, any operating system that can access the Internet can run the software without trouble.

But video conferencing is not all it does. The PalBee interface includes a host of extra features that make the best presenter and meeting-attendant feel at home. The interface includes a white board, where users can draw whatever they’d like in multiple colors. The interface is reminiscent of Microsoft Paint, the bare-bones graphics program that comes free with Windows, and its functions are familiar to millions of users around the world already. The PalBee interface also includes text chat which harkens back to its ancestor IRC, so technical problems with a voice or video devices can be resolved in-meeting. The interface also allows the upload and exchange of images, which are then displayed in a strip along the bottom of the shared white board. But perhaps the most impressive feature is the full PowerPoint presentation support. Select a PowerPoint presentation to upload, and each slide is presented in the same way as the image files are presented.

The web site is still in a beta, or larva, stage now, and as such it comes with some limitations. It only supports up to 10 simultaneous video conferences of five people each, or 50 users at one time. But there are plans to upgrade the video service to support 50 simultaneous sessions soon. “We will continuously increase the capacity and bandwidth multiple folds to support more users,” said Albert Kim, CEO and Founder of Zenitum. “Even then,” he continued, “free users have to come and create conference sessions on a first come, first serve basis.”

Of course, if you want a larger number of persons per session, longer meeting sessions, or an assured video conference space, such services will have a price when the service finishes its larva stage.

Zenitum has a number of plans to expand the services offered by PalBee in the future. They have plans, of course, to offer longer connections with more users for a small fee. They also plan to support money exchange through the service, so that viewers of a conference session can donate money to the presenter if they choose. Also, the company plans to add session recording and playback, so that, for instance, teachers who want to record a tutorial session for online use can do so, set a price, and then other users who wish to view the session at another time can play back the session for the set price.

Albert Kim, CEO of Zenitum, is full of ideas for the application of new technologies. The company began a few years ago by marketing applications of cell phone camera technologies to analyze photos of cell phone users and give fortunes based on those photos.

Zenitum Entertainment Computing is definitely a company to watch in the coming months.   

 ** Go to the original article >>

Ready to Widget Palbee

Take a look at our upcoming Widget.
Followings are some color variation of our widget.

It would be quite a fun to have widget features. I’m sure you would like
to use one. What does widget do for you? Palbee widget would provide
following features:

1. Recorded Meetings Listing
2. Meeting/Conference Schedule
3. RSS subscription

To playback the recorded meetings, you would not need to come to
Palbee site. The contents would be played on the widget directly
for your conveniences

What’s your favorite color??

First Come, First Serve Basis Free Video Conferencing for the Rest of Us

Here’s our first English press release.
(that means.. English version is now fully working!!! Yeah!)

New free video conferencing service site PalBee.com launched. Its Flash-based user interface offers unlimited free video conferencing sessions of one hour each for five video attendees. Although current beta version of the service allows 10 simultaneous video conference sessions, PalBee will be upgraded to host more simultaneous sessions in near future.

Seoul, Korea (PRWEB) July 11, 2007 — Zenitum Entertainment Computing (‘Zenitum’) announces new free video conferencing service with Web 2.0 spirit, PalBee (http://www.palbee.com).

Palbee.com offers unlimited free sessions of one hour video conferencing for maximum of five video attendees. PalBee currently provides a whiteboard, text chat, images and PowerPoint slides sharing features. Above all, since PalBee was developed using Flash technology, both PC and Mac users are able to engage in video conferencing without downloading or installing hassles whatsoever.

However, there is one catch. Current larva (beta) version supports only 10 video conference sessions at the same time, hence “first come, first serve.” It would be upgraded to support up to 50 simultaneous sessions in mid-July. “We will continuously increase the capacity and bandwidth multiple folds to support more users,” said Albert Kim, CEO and Founder of Zenitum, “Even then, free users have to come and create conference sessions first come, first serve basis.”

For upcoming version, PalBee offers several new features such as session recording, and Web 2.0 widgets playing the recorded sessions on personal blogs or other social media sites. Also, billing mechanisms, including donation, would be added soon for “Customers to Customers (C2C)” knowledge marketplace such as tutoring, counseling or professional instructions.

“We originally developed PalBee for internal uses,” Albert added. “We’ve invited professors and professionals around the world for getting lectures on advanced software engineering topics without spending too much money. I think many would have same benefits from our free video conferencing.”

He also noted that finding individual instructors or tutors is not easy. However, since increasing number of people engage in online learning, or e-learning, C2C knowledge transactions would gradually increase likewise.

To sign up and start a video conference session, visit http://www.palbee.com

ABOUT ZENITUM ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING, INC.
Zenitum is an entertainment solution developer based on computer vision technologies, and headquartered in Seoul, Korea. For three years, Zenitum has been developing unique services for both mobile and web such as “Face Beauty Surgery” and “Face Fortune Reading” based on face and facial feature recognition technology. Recently, Zenitum is launching Web 2.0 services harnessing its proprietary technologies.

For more information, please contact

Zenitum Entertainment Computing, Inc.
Albert Kim
CEO & Founder
+82-11-229-5083az

As the PR said, we will keep working on providing better service. That’s it. 🙂

    

Counting down the Launch of PalBee English Version

Finally, for those all who speak English, PalBee is gonag to speak English to you. In fact, the preview version is already up. All you need to have is a English version of web browser of any kind.

Either in English or Korea, and may be more in the future, you can set up video conference sessions through PalBee. Some parts of the service are not totally bi-lingual such as “Forum.’
But it would soon be completed.

For the official start of the service, come back on Tuesday 🙂

    
    PalBee Main            PalBee Conference UI

PalBee.com – Korean version is now on!!

The Larva version of PalBee.com is now on for all those eager users. For this week, only Korean version is available. English version will be up and running on Tue. next week.

I’ll let you know when it is done. Meanwhile, you may come and try to poke around the service. It only asks user name, password, and re-typing password to sing up. Once you done it, you can see the list of meeting rooms. If available, you just type your meeting room title and start your session.

 Hopefully, I’d see you guys on Palbee!!

1) Signing Up

2) Signing Up

 3) Starting a Meeting Session