Confabio.com Action Plan

The last months, one thing has been clear as day: Confabio.com is a kickass project with tremendous potential. It would be a waste to just stop at this prototype. Therefore, I intend to start spending x hours per week regularly and form a team.

So what needs to be done as soon as possible:

* Finding a Flash Video hosting company that wants to make a nice deal. (Really, we need to make sure that we can scale up the video streams) Red5 currently is a high risk.

For Confabio Free:

* Opening up Confabio: providing an API, inviting others to the conversation and setting meeting times.
* Thinking about providing some kind of widget (like ToxBox) to use on sites, blogs and facebooks etc.
* A downloadable trayicon that notifies you when people join a conversation.
* (Video) advertisements to try to sustain the bandwidth costs.

For Confabio Premium:

* Audio/video toggleable (new word!) chat.
* Settings screen to set preferences (like password).
* Some kind of signup procedure.
* A real time easy to use whiteboard.
* A proper test case with a real team:

Let me introduce you two of my friends and fellow programmers, both studying Computer Science at Hogeschool van Amsterdam:

Sil, aka skill. Will focus on the c++ coded trayicon that will make regular conversations between people painless (read: without using IM like skype). More about skill here: blog.skill-online.nl.

Aram, aka aczid. Will be responsible for bringing business value to the Premium, he’s now working on the whiteboard. More about aczid here: aczid.digigen.nl.

Welcome guys! And stay tuned, because things are about to roll!