Buzzword revealed…E-seminar?
June 19th, 2007 by 
Jaap Kooiker
A few weeks ago I subscribed to participate an e-seminar of Buzzword.
Today it finally was time to take action, I got home as fast as I could and started up my home PC. To be sure I took the special meeting_test and everything checked out perfect. After login the crowd started showing up on a map, which is nice. 
This way you can see people from all over the world participated.
I was planning to do a full review about this e-seminar and put it here, yes… exactly in this post. Then the presentation begun. I managed the last a half hour, from that point a totally lost the total picture. Why? because the audio was very bad… I heard about 40 percent of each sentence. There was a “sollution”, a telephone number with an audio stream. The only thing is, I wasn’t prepared for VoIP and I don’t live in the US, so that’s opposed a problem. I was really disappointed because I looked forward to this e-seminar!
Well, from what I’ve seen the presentation itself was good and well prepared, thumbs up for the people at Buzzword! I only hope this presentation will be downloadable soon with good audio, because I want to hear what they have to say about their fantastic product.
Anyway the’re probably will be other people to review this e-seminar, I’m only sorry I’m not included.
Jaap Kooiker
Posted in Did you know?, E-seminar, Flex, Interaction Design | 
June 19th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Yeap, my audio sucked also
June 19th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Well, it certainly wasn’t your connection that was bad. I’m on a 10Mbit DSL line and it still sucked. After a while, I got tired of the crappy audio, so I decided to spend the bucks ($17) on calling the US (from Norway) just because I was really curious to hear what they said. Just as I got through, my Mac’s AirPort adapter failed so then I had only audio. When I got the connection back on - the presenter lost his connection… When he finally got it back on - his AIR file refused to install…
This is surely the tecnically least successful Breeze conference I’ve ever attended! Too bad. I had been looking forward to this for many days…
J
June 19th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Hello Jaap,
I’m sorry to hear about this issue. I’m on the Connect team (new name for Breeze ;), and apologize for this result. We will investigate the issue and determine what went wrong. As you pointed out, this isn’t typical so we will get to the bottom of it.
Thanks, Michael
June 20th, 2007 at 8:14 am
Hello Michael,
I hope you find out what the problem was, so that in the future this doesn’t happen again :)
Btw. is there a page where these seminars are available for download? If so, can you mail it to me? Or place it here as a comment? Thanx.