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Compared with the traditional teleconference system, uberconference is more concise and is expected to change the market pattern.

Sina Science and Technology hearing Beijing time May 24 Morning news, the United States business incubator company Firespotter Labs development of visual video conferencing application UberConference won the TechCrunch Disrupt Annual Business Conference award, The purpose of this application is to provide a visual interface to reduce the complexity of teleconferencing.

The third TechCrunch Disrupt annual venture conference was held in New York for two days, with 30 start-ups demonstrating their creativity in two days. 6 companies entered the final contest, after the elimination, the guitar application Gtar and uberconference become the jackpot contender, and UberConference become the final winner.

Users are bored by the need to dial a conference call, manually enter room numbers, and sometimes require a password and a lot of self-introduction for identity authentication. Firespotter Labs therefore developed a visual video conferencing application UberConference, hoping to reduce the complexity of teleconferencing by providing a visual interface.

Although audio conferencing is boring, it is a huge business of 3 billion dollars and is largely controlled by telecoms giants such as At&t and Verizon. And UberConference wants to subvert existing market patterns by offering simple alternatives.

UberConference no longer requires users to enter a large number of cumbersome dialing codes, users will receive email and SMS invitations. After login, the user simply dials the meeting number, UberConference will automatically authenticate according to the number dialed by the user. Users can also choose to have uberconference call their numbers at the start of the meeting.

UberConference allows users to view the details of users who participate in conference calls through a Web browser or iOS application, highlighting the speaker. UberConference also provides management tools for conference organizers, allowing them to add, remove, or mute callers.

Firespotter Labs CEO Crigg Walker, while presenting the application, said that while UberConference had not resolved the call quality issue, it gave the organizers more control over the sound of disruptive users.

UberConference will also provide participants with detailed information, such as their information on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Firespotter Labs team wants to provide free value-added mode for uberconference, that is, uberconference service is free, but some advanced features will charge users. However, compared to the existing service providers to provide fees, uberconference plan to significantly reduce the cost of services. (Wind flute)