ooVoo
and SeeToo Partner to provide Engaging
Video Share and Chat Environment
Agreement
Marks SeeToo as ooVoo's First Web API Implementation Partner
Demo'ing at Web 2.0 in Booth #734 April 1-2
NEW YORK, NY - March
31, 2009 -
ooVoo, the solution of choice for multi-point, high-quality, easy-to-use video
communication, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with
SeeToo, a
web-based application that allows individuals to invite friends and family to
watch home videos with them in real time. The agreement allows
for ooVoo's high quality video chat software to be integrated into SeeToo's web
environment, allowing their users to not only watch videos together but to chat
about them as they watch, in high-quality ooVoo video and audio. The pairing
makes a truly simple and engaging video communication experience.
The
SeeToo video sharing experience is very easy to use whether the video is
generated by a digital camera, camcorder or webcam: all a user has to do is
select the video (or any multimedia file from their computer) to view it on the
SeeToo web site.
SeeToo requires no upload or any preparation work and can easily handle files
of any size from 500Mb to 2Gb and greater. When the user is ready to share the
video, they send an IM or an email link to friends. Once the friend clicks on the link in the IM
or email, the simultaneous viewing experience begins!
ooVoo's
high quality, multi-person video chat solution now brings even more to the
SeeToo sharing experience: the ability for friends to laugh, cry, joke, and
discuss what they are watching, in high quality video. ooVoo's simple-to-use
video chat interface has been seamlessly integrated into the SeeToo web site
with the use of ooVoo's APIs. This allows face-to-face communication with
friends, family and colleagues around the world-while sharing video and
multimedia files.
"Every
day, ooVoo connects millions of family members, co-workers, friends and online
communities through remarkably clear and highly superior video quality. We are
very excited to launch our first open API Partner, SeeToo, to help innovative
development teams and partners implement our video conversations into their
platforms," said Tom Herman, Vice President of Product Marketing and API
"Evangelist" for ooVoo. "ooVoo
understands the importance of high quality when connecting with friends,
businesses colleagues and family over video communication.
"SeeToo
continues to partner with best of breed companies such as AOL (AIM and ICQ) for
IM, and Justin.TV for webcam broadcasting to bring a superior experience to our
users," said Yoav Ilan, co-founder and head of business development for SeeToo.
"ooVoo's high-quality video and elegant API allowed us to provide a unique and
powerful collaborative service where users can interact using pre-existing
video files in tandem with live web cameras, instantaneously and with little
effort. "
In addition to enhanced user capabilities,
developers can now add ooVoo's high quality video chat rooms to their own sites
or build widgets and applications on top of the ooVoo high quality video
communication platform. Developers benefit from ooVoo software's best-in-class
features including advanced synchronization of audio and video, building blocks
for customization and browser-based, multipoint video chat. For Web sites,
blogs, media, businesses, social networks, etc., these features offer the
opportunity to enhance consumer engagement and interaction. Adding a stream of
revenue and marketing exposure for developers, ooVoo will eventually promote
developer-created applications in an online video chat application store for purchase and
download by millions of global users.
To download the ooVoo
Developer API, register an application or get more information, please visit www.ooVoo.com/Developer. To use the new integrated
environment please visit www.seetoo.com.
About ooVoo
ooVoo
provides a high-quality webcam video chat and communication
service that delivers a meaningful way for people to call and connect over the
Internet. ooVoo's technology enables people to experience a face-to-face
conversation and share a full range of emotions as if they are in the same room
together, whether they are across the street or across the globe. ooVoo's
superior quality video and audio are available to anyone with a computer,
broadband connection and a web camera, for real-time video calls with up to six
friends, relatives and colleagues simultaneously. ooVoo offers high-resolution
video, video conversation recording, telephony, video messaging, instant
message chat and file sharing amongst other capabilities.
About
SeeToo
Founded
in 2006, SeeToo
offers the first and only Instant Video Sharing solution, allowing users to
immediately stream video files of any size or digital video format from their
computer. Users watch and control the same fully synchronized video
simultaneously and can message back and forth using an embedded IM platform.
This application offers users a unique communal viewing experience not found in
any other video solution. To date, SeeToo's solution has been adopted by
hundreds of thousands of users' worldwide.
ooVoo MEDIA CONTACTS:
PJ Inc. Public
Relations
212.629.8445
Pamela Johnston,
President: Pamela@pjinc.net
Alyssa Miller, Vice
President: Alyssa@pjinc.net
SeeToo MEDIA
CONTACTS:
pr@seetoo.com
212-683-4818
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