Sqwiggle

Skype, Google Hangout, here comes competition. The new startup’s called Sqwiggle

This new startup called Sqwiggle is actually an Online solution to a Real World problem, hence finds its way to these pages.

We have all heard of Skype the Internet-based video communication service by now. And of course, Google Hangout. Well, now there’s Sqwiggle. This new startup is a social network based on video conferencing in the world of Web-Real Time Communication (Web-RTC). Sqwiggle can be used, for example, by those who work from home, to keep in touch with fellow workers or clients.

The benefits that Sqwiggle claims to offer is:

  • Instantly see & hear other team members with no need to call or share everything important to your work in one beautiful,
  • Easy to use app
  • The product minimizes bandwidth consumption by taking still images every 10 seconds. Users can then click on any image to instantly activate live video & audio
  • Interactions are 2 minutes on average (compared to 27 minutes for Skype)

This new startup says all that one needs to do when you feel like discussing something with a workmate is to click on a teammate’s picture& viola! You are instantly brought into a ‘Live’ discussion!

That’s the way this new startup works. Each outfit or company gets its own virtual “workroom”, & each member gets a place in a grid of images. When one is not in  conversation with someone else, he/she appears as a black & white still photo.To speak to someone, you simply click on their face. Sqwiggle also allows you to talk to several people at once. You just click on their faces, and you’re instantly in a group chat. All this effectively saves a lot of bandwidth.

This San Francisco, USA-based new startup charges for its service, starting at US$9 per person per month. But it also allows you a 14-day free trial. And what’s with the tongue twister of a name? Well, we don’t know, as yet.

Image Credit: Sqwiggle

 

 

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