Ustream videos not working? – Fixed!

The Ustream Black Box (no video loading)

While trying to watch a conference via Ustream, I found a horrible discovery — the site would no longer load video.

I tried Internet Explorer (IE8), Firefox and Chrome. Nothing.

After numerous Google searches, I was still out of luck.

No video on the site would load.

YouTube worked. Vimeo worked. Facebook video worked.

But no Ustream. Nothing but a black box appeared in place of the video.
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Wetoku – video interviews on the cheap

My first two videos with wetoku.com

Just found out about wetoku.com, via @charlestlee.

Its a simple video chat service (similar to TokBox), but geared specifically towards bloggers wanting to do video interviews and RECORD THEM!

I signed up for an invite today and got a response almost instantly.

I tried it out here at the office to see how easy and practical it might be to use – and it turns out its both of those.
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