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Instantstream.com is Named as One of the Most Innovative Companies of 2006
The traditional cell phone is in for an important transformation and Streamphone is the leading the way. Streamphone offers the ability to enjoy wireless video phone calls and web conferencing calls at six cents a minute in many parts of the world.
Streamphone is a smart software video client that allows anyone to make a simple more meaningful video call or web conference event with audio, video, and PowerPoint slides. Technologies like Streamphone are reinventing the experience of corporate and consumer communications, and in the process, recreating how corporate America communicates with customers, employees, governments, investors, and the media.
Instantstream, Inc. is a startup operating in the converged telecom marketplace. Creator of Streamphone, the company established the web conferencing service in 2004. In 2006, with the creation of the IMLEC (Interactive Multimedia Local Exchange Carrier) technology (version 3.0), Instantstream positions itself in the telecom pack and bridges the gap between online streaming media services, web conferencing, legacy VOIP solutions and wireless video – all within an interactive collaboration platform. Now from anywhere in the world, from any PC, MAC, SUN, Linux and Pocket PC, Smartphone or office phone, business people can setup live video calls and conference with 12 or more team members -- make international phone and video calls to any person for under 6 cents a minute without using precious cell phone minutes.
Additionally, Streamphone 3.0 now offers the facility to broadcast to an audience of many thousands of viewers right from your MAC, SUN, Linux, Pocket PC, Smartphone and your office phone.
In the future, Streamphone will offer monthly flat rate plans starting at $35 a month for 1,000 minutes -- that’s less than penny a minute! Additionally, Streamphone is now able to broadcast up to 12 live or on-demand television or content stations to a Pocket PC. Instantstream is focused on the local, national and international corporate clients, that are publicly traded firms wanting a cost efficient alternative to the complicated, overpriced online web conferencing and electronic corporate quarterly reports. The target customers are the 274 financial firms in New York City and the 5,500 publicly traded firms required to broadcast quarterly reports over the internet.
Before the end of 2006, the company hopes to have inked a contract with the New York City’s Mass Transit Authority (MTA) and Homeland Security to deploy Streamphone as an official subway and border patrol surveillance system. Plus, Instantstream is in partnership talks with a number of national and international telecommunication services providers, phone and computer manufacturers, and corporate customers located in Africa, Brazil, Chili, China, Ireland, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom, United Nations and the United States.
http://www.Instantstream.com , Inc, an American company that offers global telephone calls, wireless cell video calls and video conferencing over the Internet through e-mail account. This new technology is called Streamphone™ and it was invented by Michael Daly, the CEO and founder the company.
About Michael J. Daly
CEO of Instantstream.com, he started his career working for projects under Venrock group and has worked as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and "C" level officer (CEO, COO, CFO, CTO) with both public and private corporate leadership roles and has 26 years of experience in high growth business development, capital formation and venture strategic planning. For about 15 years Mr. Daly has worked in the VOIP, Streaming Media, CRM, ERP, Biometrics, Wireless Telecommunication—for the financial services, entertainment and high technology industries.
Detailed information on Instantstream, is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.instantstream.com.
Instantstream.com is Named as One of the Most Innovative Companies of 2006 The traditional cell phone is in for an important transformation and Streamphone is the leading the way. Streamphone offers the ability to enjoy wireless video phone calls and web conferencing calls at six cents a minute in many parts of the world.
Streamphone is a smart software video client that allows anyone to make a simple more meaningful video call or web conference event with audio, video, and PowerPoint slides. Technologies like Streamphone are reinventing the experience of corporate and consumer communications, and in the process, recreating how corporate America communicates with customers, employees, governments, investors, and the media.
Instantstream, Inc. is a startup operating in the converged telecom marketplace. Creator of Streamphone, the company established the web conferencing service in 2004. In 2006, with the creation of the IMLEC (Interactive Multimedia Local Exchange Carrier) technology (version 3.0), Instantstream positions itself in the telecom pack and bridges the gap between online streaming media services, web conferencing, legacy VOIP solutions and wireless video – all within an interactive collaboration platform. Now from anywhere in the world, from any PC, MAC, SUN, Linux and Pocket PC, Smartphone or office phone, business people can setup live video calls and conference with 12 or more team members -- make international phone and video calls to any person for under 6 cents a minute without using precious cell phone minutes.
Additionally, Streamphone 3.0 now offers the facility to broadcast to an audience of many thousands of viewers right from your MAC, SUN, Linux, Pocket PC, Smartphone and your office phone.
In the future, Streamphone will offer monthly flat rate plans starting at $35 a month for 1,000 minutes -- that’s less than penny a minute! Additionally, Streamphone is now able to broadcast up to 12 live or on-demand television or content stations to a Pocket PC. Instantstream is focused on the local, national and international corporate clients, that are publicly traded firms wanting a cost efficient alternative to the complicated, overpriced online web conferencing and electronic corporate quarterly reports. The target customers are the 274 financial firms in New York City and the 5,500 publicly traded firms required to broadcast quarterly reports over the internet.
Before the end of 2006, the company hopes to have inked a contract with the New York City’s Mass Transit Authority (MTA) and Homeland Security to deploy Streamphone as an official subway and border patrol surveillance system. Plus, Instantstream is in partnership talks with a number of national and international telecommunication services providers, phone and computer manufacturers, and corporate customers located in Africa, Brazil, Chili, China, Ireland, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom, United Nations and the United States.
http://www.Instantstream.com , Inc, an American company that offers global telephone calls, wireless cell video calls and video conferencing over the Internet through e-mail account. This new technology is called Streamphone™ and it was invented by Michael Daly, the CEO and founder the company.
About Michael J. Daly
CEO of Instantstream.com, he started his career working for projects under Venrock group and has worked as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and "C" level officer (CEO, COO, CFO, CTO) with both public and private corporate leadership roles and has 26 years of experience in high growth business development, capital formation and venture strategic planning. For about 15 years Mr. Daly has worked in the VOIP, Streaming Media, CRM, ERP, Biometrics, Wireless Telecommunication—for the financial services, entertainment and high technology industries.
Detailed information on Instantstream, is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.instantstream.com.
GoDaddy Founder, Bob Parsons, Discusses IPO Bailout, in Radio Program Website hosting and domain registrar company, GoDaddy.com, will feature Bob Parsons, its Founder, in a weekly radio show. Life Online with Bob Parsons, will resume after being sidelined by the initial public offering process that began May 12.
Recently, Mr. Parsons withdrew the company's Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which allows him to speak freely about his company. Life Online is Parsons' weekly show available on terrestrial and satellite radio, streaming audio and as a podcast. It focuses on entrepreneurship and Internet business. Each Wednesday, Parsons interviews other successful Internet entrepreneurs in an effort to help listeners develop their own business enterprises.
Mr. Parsons explained, ''Why do I do a weekly radio show? To have fun. As my brother always says, 'We're not here for a long time -- we're here for a good time.'' In addition to the live program, Mr. Parsons and sidekick Nima Jones present edgy ''podcast-only'' segments including Best of the Blog, Strange Domains and additional guests who are more appropriate for the Internet-only portions of the show.
Life Online with Bob Parsons can be heard Wednesday nights on:
* Sirius Satellite Radio channel 102 Sirius Stars -- 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. PT
* XM Satellite Radio channel 171 Open Road -- 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. PT
* Selected terrestrial radio stations (check local listings)
* Live streaming at: http://www.lifeonline.com
Presented by The David Lawrence Show, Life Online has been on the air for more than a year as a vehicle for Mr. Parsons to directly connect with Go Daddy customers, as well as help aspiring Internet business owners and others who are working to create successful ventures online. For Wednesday's show, Mr. Parsons plans to discuss his decision to withdraw the IPO for The Go Daddy Group, Inc. The fiery Mr. Parsons has pointed to adverse market conditions and his financial self-reliance as reasons for the decision.
Mr. Parsons explained, ''I don't need to drive this company into a wall to make a quick buck," he wrote in his blog, http://www.bobparsons.com. Mr. Parsons also plans to interview the founders of MikWright.com, a greeting card firm with stinging messages and a rich business-development story. Later in the podcast, Mr. Parsons is set to chat with the founder of AirTroductions.com and help listeners learn more about the business of helping travelers select flying companions, for fun and romance.
Go Daddy is a leading provider of services developed to enable individuals and businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration and web site hosting services, as well as a broad array of on-demand and other services. The Go Daddy Group is the world's largest domain name registrar, with approximately 14.6 million domain names under management as of June 30, 2006 and North America's largest shared web site hosting provider. During the final six months of 2005, The Go Daddy Group registered approximately one-third of all domain names registered in the top five generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .biz and .info.
To learn more about Life Online with Bob Parsons, please visit: www.lifeonline.com.
International Marine Minerals Society Chooses Avectra's netFORUM
The International Marine Minerals Society (IMMS) has chosen Avectra's netFORUM OnDemand to expand the functionality of the IMMS website, offer additional member self-service and better manage membership data.
IMMS is a non-profit group whose members share a common interest in marine minerals as a resource for study and sound application to meet world demands for strategic minerals. Founded in 1987 and based at the University of Hawaii, IMMS includes a worldwide membership of individuals from industry, government agencies and academic institutions. Members represent high-level government agencies, large mining and related industrial companies and the brightest research scientists around the world.
Similar to other growing, not-for-profit groups, IMMS was looking to enhance the online experience of its users while taking advantage of existing membership data to improve communication with its members. netFORUM OnDemand allows IMMS to instantly expand the functionality of their existing web site by giving members the ability to update their individual profiles, anytime, anywhere, providing access to member directory information and by enabling members and non-members to renew or purchase a membership. netFORUM OnDemand will also manage online payments and online conference registration for IMMS's annual conference. In addition, IMMS will leverage netFORUM OnDemand's robust emarketing functionality to improve outbound communications with their membership through the use of electronic newsletters and integrated marketing campaigns.
"We reviewed a number of membership management solutions and determined that netFORUM OnDemand was the best choice to cost effectively enhance our online presence and also improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our staff," said Dr. John Wiltshire of the IMMS Executive Board. "By moving event registration, online payments and member-self service to the Web, we will eliminate a number of manual and time-consuming tasks. This will not only improve the accuracy of our member data, but it will free our staff to focus on building additional programs and events to better serve our members."
Designed to fit all member-based organizations, netFORUM OnDemand enhances an organization's ability to identify, serve and retain members, streamline internal processes, and maximize revenues with real-time ecommerce. netFORUM OnDemand is a monthly subscription model and completely web-based, meaning there is no software to install and no hardware to buy. Each netFORUM OnDemand license includes hosting, unlimited support, ongoing maintenance and online training and is up and running in a few days.
"netFORUM OnDemand was designed with groups like IMMS in mind," said Dan Lackner, executive vice president of netFORUM OnDemand solutions. "IMMS is a sophisticated and serious minded group accustomed to big thinking. They are dealing with a challenging and comprehensive policy agenda and they needed a solution that was up to the task. netFORUM OnDemand provides the best of both worlds...exceedingly rapid deployment, delivered in a robust yet easy-to-use solution. We look forward to strengthening our partnership with IMMS and helping drive their long term success."
For more information about Avectra's netFORUM OnDemand, please visit http://www.Avectra.com
About Avectra
Avectra is the leading provider of membership management software solutions. The Avectra family of products is designed to fit any size organization and budget. Our solutions are the result of more than 13 years of experience serving more than 40 million individuals and 750 member-based organizations. Avectra's netFORUM is the industry standard in association management software. Using netFORUM OnDemand, organizations can quickly and easily deploy a subscription-based solution taking advantage of the same world-class netFORUM technology. Avectra is headquartered in McLean, Va., and has offices in Chicago and Los Angeles.
Interview with Brett Caine, Citrix Online
Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online (www.citrixonline.com) is one of the leading providers of hosted, web conferencing, online remote technical support, and other services. We spoke to Brett Caine, president of Citrix Online, to get his insights into the company's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model for the online productivity market, and how the firm has done since its acquisition by Citrix. Citrix Online is also one of the top Internet advertisers, and we had Brett tell us a bit about their strategy there, too.
Ben Kuo: For those readers who are not familiar with Citrix Online, tell us a bit about your company and services.
Brett Caine: Citrix Online is based in Santa Barbara, California. We're a division of Citrix Systems. Citrix Systems is a Fort Lauderdale company that in 2005 had revenues of more than $900 million. In 2005, Citrix Online had revenues of around $100 million. We're profitable and accretive to Citrix, and have been growing for more than fifty percent a year for a number of years. We operate as a division, and have more than 500 employees around the world. Citrix Online delivers the market-leading desktop access and collaboration Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), which is gaining momentum across the industry. We deliver business productivity solutions that are built on the model that "simpler is better.
" We believe there's an opportunity to bring simplicity to applications, through simpler, easier-to-use applications for the business Web. You may be familiar with GoToMyPC, which we launched in 2001. GoToMyPC enables anyone to securely access their remote PC from any Web browser. We just released version 5.0 of GoToMyPC, which is still as easy to use as ever but with double the speed and performance. We know our customers want solutions that enable them to work faster and smarter on demand so we deliver to those specific needs in all of our product designs and upgrades.
GoToAssist provides instant remote-support technology that enables a support or help desk agent with customer permission to securely view and share remote control of the customer’s PC to diagnose and fix the problem. It’s a great value proposition that is changing the way companies can support their customers.. GoToAssist is a purpose-built solution for support that meets the needs of any size company, from a one-man IT shop to very large organizations deploying the solution globally in call centers. Some of the folks using GoToAssist include Verizon Online, which uses it for all of its DSL support, Kronos, and Sage Software.
GoToMeeting, a simpler, better way to collaborate online was the first solution to offer a flat-rate licensing plan. We like to say that GoToMeeting offers online meetings for the rest of us. It's enabling the democratization and consumerization of software. At Citrix Online, we believe it's best to enable every business with secure, fast and easy access to the kinds of functionality that were previously limited to only a small number of businesses. Instead of difficult-to-use, expensive software, Citrix Online offers a simpler, better way to conduct business meetings on the Web.
Our most recent innovation is another industry first: GoToWebinar, a do-it-yourself event solution. Anyone can do it. A company of any size can plan, organize and profit from an online event, with up to a thousand people. It's flat-rate licensing plan is called "All You Can Reach" As you may have experienced, online events are particularly expensive to put on, and can cost upwards of $10,000 to $20K. It’s time-consuming and requires expertise, particularly considering you need to organize consultants, speakers and attendees, plus create HTML templates.
We've taken all of that complexity out of the process and built it into the application, which anyone can learn how to use in five minutes. The price is flat rate, and it enables up to ten people to conduct as many Webinars as they want with up to 1000 people, record those Webinars and post them on a Web site. It's bringing the "simpler is better" innovation to the marketplace and allowing you to do what was not available to most companies, because of the expense. It's been incredibly well received, even this early on in its lifecycle.
Ben Kuo: How is the growth curve now with software as a service? People have been telling me that the model really is well accepted now.
Brett Caine: I would agree with that. We have seen rapid adoption in industries of all types, and in companies of all sizes. Customers are looking for a "simpler is better" approach. Something that is easy to use, easy to deploy and easy to consume, with limited or no training. They want someone else to manage the process for them, and are very open to trying out software and getting immediate value. That why Software-as-a-Service has been successful, especially in mid-sized companies, but also companies of all sizes. It allows internal resources to focus on business critical, behind-the-firewall applications, rather than applications that are generic.
Ben Kuo: It's been some time now since the acquisition of ExpertCity by Citrix Online. How big is your operation now in Santa Barbara?
Brett Caine: It's been a little more than 2 years. In 2003, when we were privately held, we had revenues of approximately $35M. In 2004, post-acquisition, we had revenues of $60M (GAAP). Last year, we had revenues of $100M, and we are growing at approximately 50 percent. This year, in the last two quarters, we announced earning of $35M for Q2. That's a $150M run rate. We've done that, and continued to focus on what customers want: "simpler is better." That is absolutely resonating with small and mid-sized businesses who don't have a lot of infrastructure, who want to use a product and know what works and performs as advertised.
Ben Kuo: How many people do you have in Santa Barbara now?
Brett Caine: We now have about 400 people, with the company worldwide with a little more than 500, probably around 510.
Ben Kuo: I had read recently that you are one of the biggest Internet advertisers. Can you tell me a bit about your online advertising strategy?
Brett Caine: We've always been very innovative with our advertising programs. What we really believe is that it's vital to reach into the online channel to reach our core customer base. We go after two distinct footprints in the world--the idea of "prosumers," professional consumers, who are IT savvy and knowledgeable about their technology needs. That's people running a small company, or an individual in a large company. Just as there are prosumers and consumers for consumer applications--whether that is Yahoo Mail, instant messaging, or Amazon.com, there are people who want to consume Web sites in a simple and easy-to-use way, for example with a credit card.
Our users include professionals and employees of companies of all sizes in every vertical industry that seek solutions that offer strong security, high availability, superior performance and ease of use… to enable maximum productivity on the go.
Ben Kuo: How much competition are you seeing in this space?
Brett Caine: The market we are in is really growing, really quickly. Anytime you're in a market that is growing fast you're going to see competition. Real-time collaboration is growing 20%, and we're growing two to three times the market. We're growing faster than any of our competitors in terms of adoption rate of our products across the market. We're pretty confident we have a unique and interesting value proposition.
We always have competition, both old and new, but the most important thing about our competitive position is we're redefining the market. We didn't invent this market--remote access, or meetings. What we did is created a simpler, better way to do it, with our flat-rate cost model. We have a whole infrastructure built around low cost, highly available services, with a very diverse set of capabilities, which is very difficult for people to copy or match. We are forcing our competitors to go upmarket or find new growth areas. We are aggressively reaching into the market to take share.
Ben Kuo: Thanks for the info...
