MeBeam

Feeling lucky punks ?

Like most boys, I love Dirty Harry, but what I am getting very tired of is, hairy dirty punks, who continue to expose themselves on MeBeam, MiniMe, and anything else, I spend my time making.

It is a battle that I just can't win. For one reason or another, some boys out there ( and some girls for that matter ) , can't seem to keep their magnums in their pants - and feel that we all need to see their amazingly erotic bodies.

Don't get me wrong - Cyber sex, flirting , having fun etc, between consenting adults, is completely OK by me, but there is a time and a place for this, and public video rooms are not it.

Anyway, the point is, wankers are here to stay, so I am hoping that, the following little cubby I have made for you guys, will persuade you, to get the fcuk off Mebeam, and do your business in your own corner of the universe.

From this day on, if you want to show yourself, have a peek, or just be part of this amazingly exciting pastime, please visit www.chatvue.com.

This room is especially for you guys and gals. By all means, knock yourselfs out and have a blast, but just do it at chatvue.com, so that we can all enjoy Mebeam in a safe and open way.

So if your feeling lucky, and want to be a dirty hairy punk, check out

www.chatvue.com

MeBeam problems

MeBeam has had some technical issues over the last few days, I apologise for the inconvenience, and hope to have these resolved asap.

Thanks in advance for your patience.

Ashod

MiniMe with MySpace

In my previous post, I introduced MiniMe, a cut down version of MeBeam,which is ideal for embedding inside your blog, forum, and in respect to this post MySpace.

Personally, I am not a big fan of MySpace, but there is no denying it's a massively popular social networking site and what better way to socialize, then by seeing and talking to others on your page.

The following snippet of code, is what I have pasted into my About me section, and you can see the result of it by visiting my page at www.myspace.com/apakian

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" height="460" width="323" data="http://www.mebeam.com/minime.swf">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" />
<param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" />
<param name="movie" value="http://www.mebeam.com/minime.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="flashvars" value="room=ashods_myspace" />
</object>

Skype video conferencing too popular

The Skype multi video conferencing service is temporarily down, due to the unforeseen surge of people who have signed up for the service.

Although a full 1gigabit pipe was dedicated to this feature, it seems it is not enough to quench everyones thirst for multi person video conferencing using Skype.

The service will be down for a few days, until I think of a way so that it works on a clustered architecture, and can scale the same way MeBeam does.

Multi party video for Skype

A few days ago, I made a post about a new service on MeBeam, which would open up the world of multi-party or multi-user video conferencing to Skype users.

Initially, my idea, or solution, was to provide a service like our operator feature, where you would add MeBeam to your skype contact list, and type in 'call username' for every person you wanted to invite to the conference, and MeBeam would send out the invitations on your behalf.

After thinking about this a bit more, the last few weeks, I came to the relisation, that this in itself, would not be very practical for two reasons.

(1) You would have to type in every persons username,
(2) You may have set up skype, so that you see your contacts by their nickname, as opposed to their real username.

From this challenge came innovation, and we have come up with something which I know your going to like.

Without the need to download anything, you can start a video conference with up to 16 of your skype friends, directly from the Skype user interface, with minimal effort.

Although, this service does not go online officially until tomorrow, I am going to post, the how-to now, for all those who have already added MeBeam as a contact to their skype list.

Assuming you have already added the contact MeBeam to your skype list, and your ready to start a multi person video call - click on user MeBeam in your contact list, and then click on the 'send contacts' menu item, as shown in this screen shot.

Next, you send the contacts you want to invited to the video conference to MeBeam, by clicking the names on the left hand column and clicking the 'Add' button - as shown in this screen shot.

Once you have added everyone, click the 'Send' button and wait for the status message to complete.

At this point MeBeam, will generate a unique room for you and your friends, and send the invitations out automatically.

The service is in beta, and may not be 100% stable, but, you should now all have 16 person video calls available from skype.

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