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• Use TokBox To Set Up Instant Video Chat

  Published: August 14, 2007, 8:03 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Skype, Tokbox

  TokBox is a new site that we just heard about moments ago. It’s completely live but appears to have been flying under the radar until now. It allows you to set up a video chat channel in seconds. It instantly and accurately detected the camera and microphone on my Mac laptop after registration. At that point, I was prompted to invite someone

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• TokBox Gets Some NYTimes Love

  Published: October 15, 2007, 2:23 am

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Tokbox

  TokBox, a cool new startup we covered in August that lets you set up video chat on the fly with no software downloads at all, gets a nice writeup by Brad Stone in the New York Times this evening. Note the comments in our original post - it got rave reviews from readers, which is rare. Not a lot of new information in the article, except for the

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• Sequoia Capital backs Tokbox: YouTube redux?

  Published: October 15, 2007, 11:26 am

  Tags: Funding, Online, Sequoia Capital, Sequoiacapital, Technology, Tokbox, Venture Capital, Venturecapital, Video

  a $4 million investment in TokBox. With TokBox, you can make video calls - for free. Also, the platform is completely web-based. You don't even have to register for the service. There is also a cool feature that allows you to embed TokBox on a blog or social network. I had a chance to interview Chase Norlin on the matter (he is the CEO and

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• Is TokBox The Next YouTube?

  Published: October 15, 2007, 1:46 pm

  Tags: News, Financial Backing, Live Video Chat, Monetization, Technology, Tokbox, Web Sites, Youtube

  TokBox is looking to become the YouTube of live video chats. The company even has some of the same backers who believe that lightning may strike twice. The site gives users the opportunity to chat face-to-face inside a web browser on the webcam. How TokBox differentiates itself from AIM and Skype, is that it allows users to send video mail

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• Meebo Platform Launches With Big San Francisco Party

  Published: October 29, 2007, 11:29 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Meebo, Puddingmedia, Talkshoe, Tokbox, Ustream

  All are communication based: Tokbox (video chat), Talkshoe (conference calls on the fly), Ustream (lifecasting) and Pudding Media (PC to PC VOIP calls). Games and other types of applications will come next. Basically, any type of application that can benefit from having either instant access to friends who are online right then and/or the need to

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• Meebo Opens Up

  Published: October 30, 2007, 1:51 pm

  Tags: News, Developers, Facebook, Google, Meebo, Software, Technology, Tokbox, Ustream Tvinc, Web Sites

  Meebo Inc. has decided to change their focus from and online-instant messaging company, to an all-purpose media company. The firm has said it will open the site to software developers, taking the lead of other top companies such as Facebook and Google. When the site launched, the primary goal was to enable IM through a single site without users

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• Now Up To Six Simultaneous Users On TokBox Video Chat

  Published: November 20, 2007, 5:33 am

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Meebo, Snapyap, Tokbox

  the Skype software. For now TokBox is only launching this feature via their Meebo integration - this also means all participants can simultaneously text chat during the session as well. SnapYap, a sponsor of our recent Boston meetup, is a competitor to Tokbox (and by the way, see some video footage of the event here). Meebo Loading

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• Orgoo Throws Hat into Video Chat Ring

  Published: March 3, 2008, 1:00 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Mebeam, Meebo, Oovoo, Orgoo, Tokbox, Yahoo

  a Windows-only download. Tokbox supports up to six people but only provides text chat when used with Meebo. And MeBeam supports up to 16 people but has a very primitive user interface. Paltalk has been at this the longest, and offers a 10-person video chat via PaltalkScene (a Windows-only download) and PaltalkExpress (a Web-based version in

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• Serge Faguet is not happy to see you [Caption Contest]

  Published: June 6, 2008, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Sequoia Capital, Serge Faguet, Tokbox

  of Sequoia-backed startup TokBox? He's got a startup in stealth mode, according to LinkedIn, but from the looks of this photo sent by a tipster, he's not working especially hard. (Faguet's at left, pointing, in the blue shirt.) Can you suggest a better caption? Do so in the comments. The best one will become the new headline. Yesterday's

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• TokBox Brings Video to Facebook IM Chat

  Published: July 2, 2008, 8:55 pm

  Tags: Apis, News, San Francisco San Jose, Web Apps, Facebook, Social Software, Video, Web, Facebook Chat, Tokbox, Video Chat

  web-based video chat tool TokBox has just anted up its Facebook application by making it available directly in chat. TokBox’s web-based platform is a Flash-enabled browser plugin that simplifies the video chat process by offering a service that doesn’t require downloads or any cumbersome setup process, granted you already have a

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• TokBox Brings Easy Video Chat To All Platforms With AIR

  Published: July 14, 2008, 1:13 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Adobe Air, Tokbox

  Users can access all of TokBox’s standard features, which include Video Calls, Instant Messages, and Video Mail. Beyond the easy interface, the client also improves on the TokBox experience by giving users instant notification whenever a contact initiates a chat with them, and also allows them to set their availability status so that

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• TokBox Launches a Desktop Version on Adobe AIR

  Published: July 14, 2008, 8:20 pm

  Tags: News, Search, Web 2 0, Web2 0 Startups, Facebook, Myspace, Social Software, Video, Web, Adobe Air, Facebook Chat, Tokbox, Video Web Chat

  Less than two weeks ago TokBox released its Facebook chat application, enabling you to begin a video chat session from directly within Facebook’s internal instant messaging client. Today, TokBox is launching a completely new application on Adobe Air. This downloadable app acts as a complimentary option to the Web-based TokBox version,

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