WebEx: Web Conferencing, Video Conference, Webinar & Net Meeting Solutions

Founded in 1996, WebEx has grown into the worldwide leader in online meeting applications, with 64% market share. More than 3.5 million people use WebEx every month to communicate and collaborate online. We continue to develop technological advances without sacrificing the reliability and security that enables on-demand collaboration. Our 28,000 customers understand why we are the proven technology leader, with first-class global support.

How WebEx became the #1 web conference provider in the world

WebEx began with a vision: to use the Web to bring people together from around the world to collaborate and work collectively on creative ideas and business.
When WebEx was founded in 1996, emerging digital communications standards, such as ISDN and Switched Digital Service, led to the development of video conferencing, a market which took off. Users were excited by the possibilities of extended learning, keynote events, and multimedia presentations combining live video and audio—without the time and expense of traditional conferences.

WebEx worked to overcome the common barriers of the user conferencing software available at that time. Most users found it painstaking—if not impossible—to customize these applications into a useful solution to meet their business needs. Also, video tended to focus on people and their faces—relegating to a minor role the information they were trying to convey. The result: a lot of conferencing software was sold, but very little was used.

WebEx began with a clean slate, taking advantage of Internet technology to design collaboration solutions that hide all the complexities. With WebEx, there’s no need to worry about ports, platforms, versions, firewalls—or even the Internet. All you need to run effective online meetings is a browser and a phone. Collaborating with colleagues using WebEx solutions is now as easy as point and click—making it effortless to meet with anyone, anywhere, at any time.

Leading the way in web conferencing

WebEx took an early, decisive lead—where it remains today—in the commercial web conferencing market with a robust solution that provides the spontaneity and interactivity of face-to-face meetings. With WebEx, users share presentations, applications, documents and desktops, with full-motion video and integrated audio, all in a rich-multimedia environment.

Today, organizations use WebEx meeting applications across many industries—including financial services, high-tech, healthcare, pharmaceutical, communications, manufacturing, government, and management consulting—and support every stage of both customer and product lifecycles, driving results in sales, marketing, fulfillment [??], product development, manufacturing, training, and support with real-time collaboration.

Prediction market Web conferences, anyone??

If some industry players wanna to pursue this idea with Midas Oracle, feel free to contact us.

HedgeStreet:

How to Increase Your Profit Potential in Up, Down or Flat Markets by Trading Binaries – by Dr. Robert Dubil, HedgeStreet’s Chief Market Strategist – 2006-11-15 – 10:00 AM PST / 1:00 PM EST

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TradeSports:

Trading on sports prediction markets with entry-order software Saikou Trader – by “Fair Value”, a (human) market maker – 2006-11-12 – 8:00 PM – 12:00 AM EST
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Reminder:

Since brick-and-mortar conferences on prediction markets are complete crap, I’m bullish on Webinars, as I wrote many time on this blog. I’m happy to see that I’m such a great source of inspiration for TEN CEO John Delaney, who is a subscriber to this group blog.

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External Link:

1videoConference: Free, Open Source Web Conferencing for Your Domain – by Tech Crunch

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Addendum: Sorry I forgot the CME webcast…

Futures Trading Summit – by CME & CBOT – @ Live Webcast & Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. – 2006-11-15~16

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Addendum 2: I’ve just seen…

HedgeStreet – Webinar Archive – How to use Binaries to Trade on Market Movements and Economic Events – 2006-10-19

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Reminder: BetFair does not do Webinars, but brick-and-mortar workshops, “BetFair Education”.

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Wikipedia:

A webinar is a seminar which is conducted over the World Wide Web. It is a type of web conferencing. In contrast to a Webcast, which is transmission of information in one direction only, a webinar is designed to be interactive between the presenter and audience. A webinar is ‘live’ in the sense that information is conveyed according to an agenda, with a starting and ending time. In most cases, the presenter may speak over a standard telephone line, pointing out information being presented on screen, and the audience can respond over their own telephones, preferably a speakerphone.

Futures Trading Summit – by CME & CBOT – @ Live Webcast & Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. – 2006-11-15~16

How to Trade on Market Movements and Economic Events Using Binaries – by HedgeStreet & CBOE – @ Webinar – 2006-11-09

More events/meetings listed at CFM.

Parting Shot: Down with the old-fashioned, boring, unfocused, unfruitful brick-and-mortar conferences!…

BetFair – BetFair Play For Fun — Workshops: BetFair Education — Book: Winning on Betfair for Dummies, by Jack Houghton -

TradeSports — Trading FAQs — eBook: How To Milk The TradeSports Cow – (Testimonials) -

HSX — FAQs -

NewsFutures — Guide – FAQs -

WSX — FAQs -

Correction (October 18): It’s a “Webinar“, not a “Webcast”.

Webinar – Short for Web-based seminar. A presentation, lecture, workshop or seminar that is transmitted over the Web.

A webinar is a seminar which is conducted over the World Wide Web. It is a type of web conferencing. In contrast to a Webcast, which is transmission of information in one direction only, a webinar is designed to be interactive between the presenter and audience. A webinar is ‘live’ in the sense that information is conveyed according to an agenda, with a starting and ending time. In most cases, the presenter may speak over a standard telephone line, pointing out information being presented on screen, and the audience can respond over their own telephones, preferably a speakerphone