If you happend to read my post last week, you would have guessed how the tool panel had evolved from long & tedious revisions. My all time favorite business book, “The Art of Profitability,” quoted Paul Cook, the president of Raychem Corporation :
What separates the winners and losers in innovation is who masters the drudgery. The creative process usually starts with brilliant idea. Next you determine whether, if the brilliant idea worked, it would be worth doing from a business standpoint. That’s the exhilarating part. It may be the most stimulating intellectually, but it’s also the easiest. Then come the real work-reducing the idea to practice. That’s the drudgery part of innovation, and that’s where people need the most pressure and encouragement. You can draw a chart of how the original excitement of a new idea creates all kinds of energy, but then people go into the pits for a long time as they try to turn that idea into products that can be manufactured. That’s when you use the phone and the fax machine. That’s when you have review meetings between the technical people and senior management. That’s when as CEO, you show the entire organization that you are just as interested in new product and process development as you are in manufacturing costs, sales, or quality.
Yes, indeed. Any who involves in any kind of product development had yelling moments in meeting rooms. We had that too, revision after revision. May be we should call revision meeting a “yellting,” or “screameeting.”
Since Palbee is a micro application (“Micro-App”), quoting such grandiosity is somewhat exaggeration. It’s self-defense that saying, at least, ‘we tried so, don’t blame it too much!”Anyhow, although it is still in the phase of revisioning, or yelling and being “yelled at,” we finally unveil the Video Meeting UI. For me it’s neat enough.
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Let’s take a “short tour” on our interface for video meeting or conferencing. On the top-left, you see the speaker, instructor, or moderator based on the situation for the meeting. Since the speaker took this screen shot, you are watching “Speaker Mode” with more functionality such as “slide pick,” “File Upload,” “Privilege Granting or Un-Granting.”
We have a neat chat box with a Technicolor picker for the chat texts on the lower left. On the bottom, you will see videos of people. Including the speaker, each Palbee video meeting room supports five video feeds. Of course, we do have nice snow white board in the middle with the “Swiss Army knife-like tool panel” on the right. Yes that darn thing costs development time, several packages of Ricola, and a post of blog.
Better yet, the two icons above the “Upload Files” button are still a conundrum. It supposed to represent 1) single image uploading to the whiteboard 2) multiple image uploading. If you have better idea, please let us know.
Video Meeting UI supports MS Power Point slides and hopefully more in the near future. Like I said, if you need more features and comments, let me know.
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