Saul Wainwright at Work for Abraham Harrison LLC, originally uploaded by Chris Abraham.

Here’s a picture of our Abraham Harrison LLC Director of Client Services, Saul Wainwright, as he works busily from our Cape Town, South Africa, location. Yes, Saul is a greenie treehugger, but that’s just how we roll. You’ll also notice that he’s also a Mac user, which is what all self-respecting treehuggers use. And, since we’re working on the ooVoo campaign, he has a gorgeous new webcam. And yes, that is the ocean outside his window!

If you want to explore the nature of free multi-person video conferencing from a company that has a truly sick sense of humor then you should really and truly download and install ooVoo right now and give it a bit of a go, with or without stage makeup.

Okay, I must admit that they’re all pretty profane and wonderful… here’s a lovely comedy take on grotesque suicide:

• ooVoo specs:
  • Free video chat
  • Easy to install (3 clicks)
    
  • Up to 6 friends, family members, colleagues on video at the same time
  • Text messaging
  • Record and send video messages
  • View call history
  • Send files up to 25MB, 20 at a time while contact is offline
  • Import contacts from address book
    
  • ooVoo me link for website or email signature
    
  • Privacy settings allow you to decide who can ooVoo you
  • Video quality –
• System requirements for ooVoo:
  • Pentium 4 1Ghz with 256MB of RAM for PC
  • G4 and up processors, and OS X 10.4 and up for Mac
  • 20MB Hard disk space
  • Webcam and Headset
  • Broadband connection (Cable, DSL etc..)
  • Microsoft Windows 2000, XP or Vista
• Webcams for ooVoo:
  • ooVoo store
• What ooVoo has that others don’t:
  
  • 6 people at a time on live video
  • video messaging
• Things you can use ooVoo for:
  • family/friend chat
  • create foreign language chat room to practice with native speakers and other students
  • business video conferencing
  • sign language communication
  • sending files
• Major forums, blogs, sns, where you can find discussions about ooVoo and user review:
  • facebook group
  • ooVoo blog
  • ooVoo forums
• History of ooVoo
  • email, IM, internet phone, ooVoo:
  • where did it come from:
  • official launch – 6/2007
• Developments on the horizon:
  • MAC beta version – end of 2007
  • ooVoo to phone conversation
  • recording capabilty (PC only) allowing you to capture video chats – January 2008
    

Some Very Good Reasons to Use ooVoo — How to Use ooVoo

• free
• stay in touch with the kids in college, recently moved away.
• use ooVoo to fill the home up this christmas. Talk with all the kids at once, together
• talk with the whole family at once
• see your friends, family, kids, parents, and grandkids
  • can’t make that long trip, flight or drive to see the family for christmas. bring them into your home with ooVoo. You don’t have to go anywhere.
  • great way for family to connect
  • good for families that are spread out
  • bring the family together this christmas. With ooVoo no matter where they all are they can still see each other and chat.
• send text messages
• connect with other ex-pats spread out across the world
  • see your friends and families
  • can’t get back to the states to see family for christmas? use oovoo to connect.
• Military
  • great way for mom’s or dad’s to see their children
  • ooVoo donated 500 cameras to the military so that soldiers could connect with their families around christmas
  • send video messages to your husband, dad, mom, sister, daughter in the military.
• Business Travelers
  • need to have a conference call with several co-workers? 6-way video conference capability
  • nice “look and feel” = professional business tool
  • customize contacts list
  • send files up to 25 MB
  • connect with the family while you are on the road. see the kids in real time.
  • fun way to leave messages or receive messages from the kids while you are on the road