Ambient video awareness and visible conversations « Jon Udell

Two interesting items in this piece... 

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Firstly, Jon talks about Hexagon, a room-based presence awareness system...kinda like MSN on steroids...being able to see what participants are doing and to know how to interact with them. Not for general use, as Jon comments, but an interesting look-see at where some of this stuff may be going.

The second part is about a simple online conferencing system called FlashMeeting. Useful in itself but of more interest are Jon's comments about how we use such systems, the pros/cons of different types of speaker interactions, and how little we know about how we interact with each other in meeting situations.