“…do you really think everyone has a blog ???”

That’s roughly what my father shouted at me when I proudly demoed him the widget…. I was unarmed and got back to our team, urging them for a prompt fix - to keep some dignity ! I could’nt agree more though, while there are around 10 millions active bloggers, we must be more than a billion active internet users…

Since email is used among 99% of internet users, we thought of embedding the widget within your signature - which is kind of tricky. We hence decided to use an html link instead which you may add to your signature. All you need is an email that support html.

1/ Get a widget account by visiting www.wengovisio.com

2/ Copy&paste this piece of code within your signature or hide it with an hyperlink & a more attractive & explicit wording - don’t forget to fill in your nickname first !

http://www.wengovisio.com/wvisio_v1-1.php?wgo_login=MY_WENGO_NICKNAME

3/ Log-in by opening this url and use the detach option (arrow up-right corner) to keep your widget in the task tray.

That’s it ! Everyone is now a click-away of videocalling you ! They just need to click the link within your signature, which will instantly and dynamically open a web page publishing your widget.

Why bother calling landlines anymore ?

Here is an example :

Try me !

For customization options, see Arnaud’s blog - in French.

ps : this link will soon be proposed at the end of the widget creation process.

If you want to receive the new Wengo Stickers, just leave us a comment on this post or send us an email with your postal address. 4 models are available and stocks are very limited (first come, first served)

Now you can add your video to present yourself and yours services available on Wengo.com. Just need to follow 3 steps to create your video presentation :

1. Go to My Wengo / Manage yours services / Modify service
2. On YouTube or DailyMotion, once you’ve downloaded your video, just need to copy the Embed HTML code
3. Then paste it on your Service Description.

That’s it, now yours vistors can have a look on your video before calling you. Here, you can have a look on mine (in spanish)

If you’ve a blog on TypePad, now you can easily create and import your Wengovisio Widget on your blog. At the end of the registration process on Wengovisio.com, just need to click on add this widget on my TypePad blog, and that’s it!

The Wengo Team Wish you a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2007 !

Few days ago we launched “Wengovisio“, our new live Audio & Video widget dedicated for bloggers (and website owners). Completely free, no software to download and very very easy to set-up (copy/paste html on your webpage), more than 2000 users (and still growing!) adopted it and started live conversations with their readers’ community.

Wengovisio is still in Beta, but we are working on it and already improved it thanks to your many feedbacks, such as:

- Latency and synchronization issues
- Automatic Authentification (so you can refresh your blog without being logged off)
- Simple integration for Typepad users (and other plateforms to come)
- Audio Alert…We are still improving Wengovisio and planning many new features in the coming weeks (such as: text messaging integration, scheduling an appointement…) Just stay tuned and please feel free to send us your feedback and your suggestions about Wengovisio directly by commenting this post.

Wengo, a subsidiary of 9 Telecom, France’s second largest telecom, has a well designed chat widget for bloggers. It’s called Wengo Visio and is like MeeboMe but with video chat. Visio runs in Flash through a bit of embedded JavaScript and CSS, with SIP as the communications protocol. Check here for some bloggers that have it implemented.

When you have your widget installed, you can make yourself available to chat by logging in through an admin menu. While online, readers can solicit you for chatting by typing a little message in text box that shows up on the owners side. The owner can then initiate the chat if they choose. Chatting is currently one-to-one via mic and optional web cam, which makes it less overwhelming than the flood of texting that can happen with MeeboMe. Although, the group video chat of PalTalk and ability for readers to listen in could make for an ad hoc “Gillmor Gang” style meeting of the minds right on your blog.

But Wengo Visio isn’t intended to be a standalone program, rather it is an effort to expose Wengo’s other products, Wengo Talents community and Wego Phone to a wider audience. Wengo Phone is their own chat client that lets you text chat, call other VOIM users, call landlines, call cell phones, set up audio conferences, and make video calls. It also runs on Win, Mac, and Linux, with Google Talk, Yahoo, ICQ, and GAIM compatability. Similar to Skype-out, they only charge for calls to landlines and cell phones, but have a free trial with € 0.50 of credits until January 4th. So far, over 72 million minutes have been shared over Wengo.

Stepping back a step further, both Wengo Visio and Wengo Phone are part of their long term plan of building a pay-per-call expert network, Wengo, where people can sell their time on the phone via PayPal or credit card. This may sound a lot like Ether, sans the 1-800 number, and it is very similar. Wengo, however, has opted to build their offering around their own Wengo community site, where users have categorized themselves, received ratings, and posted profiles. Ether has opted for a different strategy by relying on users to promote services on their own.

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Dear Readers,

We are very happy to welcome you on the new Blog of Wengo community, a blog that we want a place for discussion and exchange, so please do not hesitate to enrich it by your comments and feedback. We will try regularly to share with you the life within Wengo, keep you informed about the last innovations and discuss various topics.

See you soon

Wengo Team