I remember talking about the potential benefit of such a potential videoconferencing app, over 6 years ago, on a Skype call with Stuart Henshall (http://www.henshall.com/).
I am glad to see I was not alone in that vision, and that the time has now come for such application to be potentially of use and support to many.
The OpenTok concept is thus an inversion of the usual video chat paradigm, where the video stream itself is front-and-center and users have nothing to focus on but each other.
“Content fuels conversation,” says Small. “The ‘aha’ moment for us came when we noticed that people who watch YouTube movies together hang out for an hour or more. They’re half talking, half watching, half chilling. So we said, ‘Why are we spending time trying to figure out how to fit the Web inside our service, instead of taking our service and fitting it to the Web.’”
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