{"id":4729,"date":"2009-09-08T12:51:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T17:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4729"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:29:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:29:47","slug":"wetoku-video-interviews-on-the-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wetoku-video-interviews-on-the-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"Wetoku &#8211; video interviews on the cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/flickr\/photo\/3901184146\/my-first-two-videos-with-wetoku-com.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"My first two videos with wetoku.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2648\/3901184146_904592c0a7_m.jpg\" alt=\"My first two videos with wetoku.com\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Just found out about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetoku.com\">wetoku.com<\/a>, via <span class=\"twitshort\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/charlestlee\" target=\"_blank\">@charlestlee<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Its a simple video chat service (similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokbox.com\">TokBox<\/a>), but geared specifically towards bloggers wanting to do video interviews and RECORD THEM!<\/p>\n<p>I signed up for an invite today and got a response almost instantly.<\/p>\n<p>I tried it out here at the office to see how easy and practical it might be to use &#8211; and it turns out its both of those.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI did a short chat with Jim Gray (<span class=\"twitshort\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beaconhillnw\" target=\"_blank\">@beaconhillnw<\/a><\/span>). He was chatting from a coffee shop and we had a really bad delay. Not sure if it was my end, his end or where, but it wasn&#8217;t the best of qualities for sure.<\/p>\n<p><object width='400' height='182' classid='clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000' codebase='http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0'><param name='movie' value='http:\/\/wetoku.com\/video\/5ylv12xp\/player' \/><param name='FlashVars' value='bgcolor=&#038;width=200&#038;height=150' \/><param name='wmode' value='transparent' \/><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true' \/><\/object> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wetoku.com\/video\/5ylv12xp\" target=\"_blank\">View on wetoku<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then I did a followup interview\/chat with <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.aaronaiken.com\">Aaron Aiken<\/span> (<span class=\"twitshort\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/aaronaiken\" target=\"_blank\">@aaronaiken<\/a><\/span>) from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trimtabcreative.com\/\">TrimTab Creative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This interview had a much higher quality and connection and probably shows more of what the service can actually do.<\/p>\n<p><object width='400' height='182' classid='clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000' codebase='http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0'><param name='movie' value='http:\/\/wetoku.com\/video\/0glw1h3m\/player' \/><param name='FlashVars' value='bgcolor=&#038;width=200&#038;height=150' \/><param name='wmode' value='transparent' \/><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true' \/><\/object> <\/p>\n<p>View on <a href=\"http:\/\/wetoku.com\/video\/0glw1h3m\" target=\"_blank\">wetoku<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did both of these with my basic Logitech webcam, using the built in microphone. So the audio and video wasn&#8217;t the best of the best, but it gets the job done.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking with a good connection, this could be a great addition to the <a href=\"http:\/\/somethingbeautifulpodcast.com\">something beautiful podcast<\/a> and\/or any number of practical uses.<\/p>\n<p>What could you use something like this for?<\/p>\n<p>*p.s. :: I need to get more used to actually looking at the video camera throughout the interview, rather than looking down at my screen and their video. It looks funny if I&#8217;m looking down the entire time.<\/p>\n<span class=\"twitshort\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/jdblundell\" target=\"_blank\">@jdblundell<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just found out about wetoku.com, via . 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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wetoku-video-interviews-on-the-cheap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wetoku &#8211; video interviews on the cheap<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[1926,1580,2566,2565,2567,622,11,2564],"class_list":["post-4729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techno","tag-aaron-aiken","tag-chat","tag-flash","tag-interview","tag-jim-gray","tag-technology","tag-video","tag-wetoku"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1eh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10647,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729\/revisions\/10647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}