quoi9

After the OpenWengo project – ‘A VoIP provider whose goal is to make standards-based SIP telephony available to all’, Wengo, a subsidiary of the French telecommunications company Neuf Cegetel, has begun flirting with the blogosphere.

WengoVisio, a video communication widget has gone live in limited public beta – limited to the first 10,000 (6,000 as of 30.12.06) subscriptions.

“This Innovation in the virtual communications universe should please the 63 million bloggers in the world by offering them a new proximity with their visitors. The blog phenomena will be given a new dimension by WendoVisio ; no need to leave a comment to react to a post, everyone can interact and speak in Visio with the blogger if he or she is online”, explains David Britton, originator of Wengo.

There is nothing new in videophones as you know; Live messenger, Yahoo messenger or Skype planted their tents on this ground a good while back, which is no doubt why Wengo are targeting the blogosphere. There is no programme/plug-in/software needed to download, it’s installed by a simple cut & paste of HTML code like most widgets, so if you want to Pimp up your blog with a live audio & video widget this might be one to try out – WengoVisio are still taking subscriptions.

It remains to be seen if WengoVisio will have the same success as other blog widgets like MyBloLog for example.

via clubic.com