Comments on: Has microblogging plateaued for the moment? http://www.140char.com/2008/10/has-microblogging-plateaued-for-the-moment/ Microblogging news, tools and resources: Twitter, Google Buzz, Tumblr, Identi.ca, Yammer, Posterous Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:38:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Tim http://www.140char.com/2008/10/has-microblogging-plateaued-for-the-moment/comment-page-1/#comment-313 Tim Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:21:14 +0000 http://www.140char.com/2008/10/has-microblogging-plateaued-for-the-moment/#comment-313 Oh yeah and it comes with headphones/Microphone as well as the inbuilt noise cancelling microphone on the Cam itself. Headphones help as if you use laptop/PC speakers for the other participants voice this gets picked up by the microphone and you end up echoing their words back to them. When both of you are using inbuilt mic and speakers instead of headphones it gets a little confusing. Oh yeah and it comes with headphones/Microphone as well as the inbuilt noise cancelling microphone on the Cam itself.

Headphones help as if you use laptop/PC speakers for the other participants voice this gets picked up by the microphone and you end up echoing their words back to them. When both of you are using inbuilt mic and speakers instead of headphones it gets a little confusing.

]]> By: Tim http://www.140char.com/2008/10/has-microblogging-plateaued-for-the-moment/comment-page-1/#comment-312 Tim Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:19:27 +0000 http://www.140char.com/2008/10/has-microblogging-plateaued-for-the-moment/#comment-312 I second the choice of the Logitech - i just got the 7500 as it was £60 cheaper than the 9000. decent light handling and built in light and light sensor. Works fine with messenger clients Supporting software is ok but a bit of a pain to install in Vista especially if you have network drives mapped as it has hard coded paths for windows profile so it can create > Documents > QuickCam Pics needed quite a lot of research, registry repoints and elevated cmd line to set it up on work XP machine this may cause issues I second the choice of the Logitech
– i just got the 7500 as it was £60 cheaper than the 9000.

decent light handling and built in light and light sensor.

Works fine with messenger clients

Supporting software is ok but a bit of a pain to install in Vista especially if you have network drives mapped as it has hard coded paths for windows profile so it can create > Documents > QuickCam Pics

needed quite a lot of research, registry repoints and elevated cmd line to set it up
on work XP machine this may cause issues

]]> By: Dan Thornton http://www.140char.com/2008/10/has-microblogging-plateaued-for-the-moment/comment-page-1/#comment-303 Dan Thornton Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:05:38 +0000 http://www.140char.com/2008/10/has-microblogging-plateaued-for-the-moment/#comment-303 Cheers. Picking a webcam always seems to be a bit of a gamble - any advice for audio as well? Cheers. Picking a webcam always seems to be a bit of a gamble – any advice for audio as well?

]]> By: Michael Bailey http://www.140char.com/2008/10/has-microblogging-plateaued-for-the-moment/comment-page-1/#comment-302 Michael Bailey Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:29:39 +0000 http://www.140char.com/2008/10/has-microblogging-plateaued-for-the-moment/#comment-302 Hi Dan, Regardless of which webcam you end up using, make sure that you have a lot of light in the room - low light = low frames per second(fps). I would recommend the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 for the PC Hi Dan,

Regardless of which webcam you end up using, make sure that you have a lot of light in the room – low light = low frames per second(fps).

I would recommend the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 for the PC

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