Changes in Vyew that affect you

1. Collaborators can only edit/delete their own objects and cannot delete pages

   We have removed some rights of the “Collaborator” usertype because we felt that Collaborators should be contributors of content and ideas, and the editorial work should be left to the moderators/owners. So as of tomorrow Collaborators can’t edit or delete drawings, images, or text created by other users.

   If you trust your participants enough to let them delete other peoples content, then you should make them a Moderator. 
   

2. New Voice Server

   We have deployed a new VOIP (Push To Talk) server that more stable and reliable. We are interested in your feedback on how much better (or not better) it is.
   

3. The Vyew Accelerator - Record/Playback Meetings, Print to Vyew

   This is a pre-release, click here for more information
   

4. The Vyew Public API

   If you are a developer and have an web app of your own, it can now interact with VyewBooks. More Info
   

Did you know? Paying Vyew Customers have priority email support?

Pay customer support emails are handled first. To take advantage of this you must submit your support emails through our website contact form.

People are telling us the economy is bad, but we haven’t noticed

We just want to assure you that we’re not going anywhere. Business is good and increasing now more than ever and you can depend on us to be around for a long time. We’re getting revenue from paying customers, and some pretty large enterprises and government departments have come to rely on Vyew as well. The revenue goes directly back into continual development that you all will benefit.

Are you a developer? Vyew now has two types of API’s:

1. Client-side API = so you can build plugins in Adobe Flash that import into Vyew

2. Server-side API = If you have a webapp of your own, you can integrate it with Vyew to create Vyew meeting rooms, import content etc.

More information about our API

On September 5 Dr. Michael Rouan of Stanford University and Henry Hon, CEO of Vyew, presented “Vyew Collaboration in Education (Stanford, Motorola)” at the Office 2.0 Conference. Dr. Rouan and Henry Hon introduced Stanford Engineering Everywhere (http://see.stanford.edu) in the presentation. See the below post for a description of Stanford Engineering Everywhere. Here is a link to the presentation video and summary: http://www.office20.com/docs/DOC-1202.

On September 17 Stanford School of Engineering distributed a news release announcing the launch of Stanford Engineering Everywhere (http://see.stanford.edu), a new online portal that offers engineering courses from Stanford University for free. Here is a link to the news release.

Vyew provides a conferencing and collaboration framework for Stanford Engineering Everywhere in an integrated environment that includes lecture videos and transcripts, handouts, assignments, solutions and discussion forums that can be duplicated and used for annotation or collaborative learning by any individual or educational institution.