Comments on: CallWave Delists From NASDAQ; Fuze Meeting Rises From The Ashes

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:55:15 +0000

As a former PlaceWare EE, I find it interesting that nobody has mentioned the fact only AdobeConnect offers the equivalent of a ‘clientless’ (flash OEM’d) install. WebEx, LiveMeeting (formerly PlaceWare – which was Java based until the evil empire re-wrote to .Net / WinTel) and GoToMeeting all require an ActiveX install. As a sales person, I can attest to the fact 10% of my GoTomeeting’s require reschedules b/c someone doesn’t have admin rights (at least at MANY fortune 250’s).
Any new product w/out a client install is welcome in my world. Good luck with FUZE…Oracle needs to give away a collaboration service and IBM could use a refresher there as well.

By: Team Apart Joins The Startup Crusade Against WebEx (Invites) | Technology

Team Apart Joins The Startup Crusade Against WebEx (Invites) | Technology — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:00:40 +0000

[...] it from the myriad of other free (or close to free) collaboration services out there, which include Fuze Meeting and DimDim. Given the market size for this kind of collaboration tool there is certainly room for [...]

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Team Apart Joins The Startup Crusade Against WebEx (Invites) | Techdare — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:15:35 +0000

By: Team Apart Joins The Startup Crusade Against WebEx (Invites)

Team Apart Joins The Startup Crusade Against WebEx (Invites) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:01:37 +0000

[...] it from the myriad of other free (or close to free) collaboration services out there, which include Fuze Meeting and DimDim. Given the market size for this kind of collboration tool there is certainly room for [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:24:36 +0000

The Best Product on the market is Attain Response owned by VM Direct. It makes all the other competitors look overpriced by compariosn.

By: Jack C

Jack C — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:38:04 +0000

Sounds like you work for Cisco.

Regardless, I completely disagree and I don’t think they need a Webex killer to convince a ton of people to drop their Webex accounts. That’s happening anyway since there are a huge number of people who aren’t “savvy” or “resourceful” enough to wade through it’s convoluted/confusing interface.

I signed up for a FUZE trial and had a meeting running with two friends in a couple of minutes – something that often doesn’t happen when I use my corporate Webex account. While I’m sure some people need the features you mentioned, I could care less about polling, testing, or webpage sharing, etc. What I care about is a program that makes my presentations look great and is a no brainer for those who want to join my meetings (I’ve been burned plenty of times on that front with Webex despite how “resourceful and savvy” I am).

I was very impressed with FUZE for a v1.0 product. If this is what they can do out of the gate, I’ll keep my eyes peeled to see what they do next.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:38:29 +0000

Agreed on most of comments about webex.. except they rape you with fees for something that looks like crap and makes your stuff look like crap too.

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:33:06 +0000

had the chance to test drive fuze meeting and it is NOT a WebEx killer at all. everytime i asked a question about features, the answer would either be we dont have that or its work in progress.

no recording, no polling, no testing, no voip, no webpage share, etc.

do we really need to have HD webcam feed? haha.

Ill stick to webex, they have all the resources available online, so if you are savvy and resourceful as you should be, there should not be a need to contact them at all, and it does rxactly what i want and when i want.

Nothing is perfect, Fuze is waaaaaaaaay far from good.

Adios.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:54:19 +0000

I hope they actually innovate and do something with facebook and others instead of just copy WebEx. WebEx is old and tired. Time to innovate is now!

By: C Wagner

C Wagner — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:03:29 +0000

Not sure I’d trust a new company in this space.

By: MacDaddy

MacDaddy — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:43:35 +0000

I’m a Adobe Connect user but if this works as advertised, not for long. The mobile connectivity is exactly what I’ve been waiting for. I’ve done some limited testing and while the mobile experience has some lag, it is pretty impressive.

By: BBoyd

BBoyd — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:12:21 +0000

Forgot to mention the “fetch” feature…”fetch me like a dog” as the cute kids in the video say. It IS cool. Don’t have to remember bridge numbers and passcodes. I haven’t seen that in other services. It’s a small feature, but notable differentiator.

By: BBoyd

BBoyd — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:09:39 +0000

Just tried it out. I can’t do video synchronization with other services I’ve tried so that is cool. I wish I could have more participants for free, but again, no one is doing HD video synchronization like this.

By: Beth Horn

Beth Horn — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:12:57 +0000

I loved how Fuze showed my video files in such a great quality. I wish there were more free seats though.

By: Chip

Chip — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:05:51 +0000

I like the feature that you can call attendees into a meeting instead of the usual emailing them the phone number and access code. This alone helps my meetings start much faster. It would be useful though if they also put the meeting information prominently on their UI so that attendees have an easy access to it.

By: J Wong

J Wong — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:07:21 +0000

Please. Could you at least indicate that you do PR for them ?

By: Patrick Moran

Patrick Moran — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:21:52 +0000

Hey Guy! GREAT Feedback and I am SO with you. We’ll be addressing each and everyone of those! Just watch us!

@fuzemeeting
@patrickmoran

By: Guy

Guy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:42:47 +0000

Here’s how Fuze can be a billion dollar company:
1. Add recording feature to meetings
2. Reduce costs of live sessions per participant from $0.22/min (like Adobe, WebEx) DRAMATICALLY to ~0.02/min (on top of 25 free users per the subscription plan)
3. Open API
Adobe connect and WebEx are both pricey and dated products with VERY BAD customer support (Adobe in particular).
Fuze has huge opportunity here.

By: Patrick Moran

Patrick Moran — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:29:33 +0000

Hi Brad (@zappoman) — sorry to hear you ran into a problem — If you don’t mind following up with me via email (pmoran at fuzemeeting.com), I am happy to make sure we track down the issue!!! I haven’t seen that problem with our customers yet, but certainly sounds like a FAIL somewhere! Sorry to disappoint.

@patrickmoran

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:47:00 +0000

The call wave commercial with that homely looking lady knocking on the screen saying “hello, hello” made me absolutely hate their company forever.

Good riddance.

By: Brad Hefta-Gaub

Brad Hefta-Gaub — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:16:33 +0000

I was literally just starting a search for a free/cheap alternative to GoToMeeting, and saw this article… unfortunately, Fuze has a limit of “3 attendees” for their free accounts. Which is bad enough, but some bug in their system has them thinking I’ve used up my free attendees with only the presenter logged in. FAIL.

I’ll be moving on to the next alternative.

By: Jason Kincaid

Jason Kincaid — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:07:31 +0000

I didn’t make it, their CMO did.

By: Ryan Allen

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:31:43 +0000

I setup a dimdim account at the office and I’ve been very impressed with it. We use it for online training classes for up to 200 people at once.

By: fred

fred — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:17:23 +0000

So Jason, when did you start working for callwave? Producing a video that looks like it could have been done by the vendor seems over the top for so-called independent reporting.

By: Fuze Meeting with iPhone and Blackberry Apps | Kirsten Winkler

Fuze Meeting with iPhone and Blackberry Apps | Kirsten Winkler — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:14:27 +0000

[...] I will test Fuze Meeting soon and write about my impressions. There is also an interesting article about the history of Fuze Meeting on TechCrunch. [...]