Alec and the gang at Iotum have cooked up a fascinating new conferencing service called Calliflower. What an eye-popping name. But what will really impress you is how the thing works.
The conferencing technology underlying Iotum’s recent Squawkbox talks is behind Calliflower, but they’ve added a ton more: Lecture Mode, where participants can raise hands and ask questions; support for Truphone, Skype, and PSTN dial-in connections, avatars with caller status, and a superclean “2.0″ web interface with no proprietary garbage attached (read: it works outside the shrinking kingdom of Internet Explorer).
They’re also doing some celebrity chats that are open to the public, a trick pulled from the old AOL hat. Remember how AOL used to have text chats with actors and authors? Good stuff, guys, keep it up.
