Last week, I returned to my alma mater to participate in SpeakCNU, an annual TED Talk-style event that allows students, staff, and alumni to share their ideas and experiences with the campus community. This year’s SpeakCNU topic was the power of vulnerability. As soon as I saw the topic, I heard that stage calling my name. Here was my opportunity to speak with current students about mental health. I am often asked how and why

Real Time Weekly #255: November 12, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! Hello everyone! This week we've got a great article about WebRTC Data Channels from Janus. In addition we have more content from Nexmo, PubNub, Pusher, and more! Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Thanks for Reading! @germangol Editor Implement Video Chat with Xirsys, WebRTC, and ChatEngine PubNub Nov 5 How to integrate

Get NBA scores on your phone with the new Nexmo Messages API The NBA's 2018-19 season just started and the number of stories to follow this year is through the roof. Is Lebron enough to make the Lakers a real contender in the West? Is Kawhi going to be healthy enough to get the Raptors to the NBA finals or even win the title? Are the Warriors going to dominate the NBA once again? Let's

With two sons suffering from varying degrees of mental illness, Ginger, our Director of Telehealth Accounts, has spent years navigating mental health care. In 2017, Ginger’s oldest son Austin, age 19, lost his battle with depression and anxiety to suicide. After his tragic death, she understood that her purpose in life is to use her skill set to advocate and work to shine a light on mental health by changing the landscape and accessibility of

Real Time Weekly #254: November 5, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! Hello everyone! The big news last week in the WebRTC world is the VP8 support in Safari 12! Probably we will see more blog posts about this in the next weeks. We have also great material on Janus, Twilio, Nexmo, PubNub, and more! Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Thanks for Reading!

Earlier this month I attended the Virginia Association of Community Service Boards annual conference on public policy. I have never paid so much attention or been so engaged in a conference that I remember. Topics included: Key Developments in Current National Topics regarding bahavioral & mental health, Battling the Opiod Crisis one State at a Time, The Next Transformative Steps, Challenges Faced by Behavioral Health Community Service Boards and more. This year represents a changing

Real Time Weekly #253: October 29, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! Hello everyone! This week we've got a great article from Ably.io about WebSockets. In addition we have a tutorial about building a Multiplayer AR game, another one about using PubNub as a signaling server, a new blog post from Nexmo about their message failover system, and more! Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to

Real Time Weekly #252: October 22, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! Hello everyone! This week we've got a new announcement from Plivo about their new multiple incoming calls support, an overview to the most popular open source WebRTC media servers from Linagora, and tutorials from Pusher, Pubnub, Nexmo, Ably.io, and more! Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Thanks for Reading! @germangol Editor Build

Real Time Weekly #251: October 16, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! Hello everyone! In this issue Nexmo has announced their new Message and Dispatch API with a failover system, in beta for now. In addition, we have more technical blog posts about WebSockets, WebRTC monitoring using Callstats, controlling a car using PubNub, a photo sharing app using Pusher, and a great article about WebRTC vs Zoom from Tsahi Levent-Levi. Your feedback is always welcome! So you

Happy World Mental Health Day and Mental Illness Awareness Week!  World Mental Health Day was first celebrated in 1992 by the World Federation for Mental Health to bring awareness and advocacy to mental health.  Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) was established by Congress two years earlier to draw attention to the unique experiences and needs of individuals who live with mental health conditions.  Each year, World Mental Health Day is celebrated on October 10th and Mental

Real Time Weekly #250: October 8, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! Hello everyone! In this issue we've got a comparison between WebRTC and Zoom, a Webinar from TokBox about integrating Nexmo and OpenTok SIP, a tutorial about building a real-time chess game with Pusher, another tutorial to build a chat app with Twilio Programmable Chat API, and more! Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say

Last week we shared a post recapping our very own Alberto Gonzalez's experience at the recent RTC Conference in Beijing. We promised that this week we would post more on his conference presentation “WebRTC Trends and Use Cases Today” an analysis of the WebRTC technology, use cases and market trends based on our yearly WebRTC survey. Alberto's presentation focused on the results of a recent survey that we sent out to webRTC developers. We asked

Real Time Weekly #249: October 1, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! Hello everyone! In this issue we've got great articles about Realtime, Bots, Machine Learning and WebRTC development.  My favorite article this week is the one from Nexmo about classifying objects using MLKit for Android. Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Thanks for Reading! @germangol Editor Building a realtime chat app with GraphQL Subscriptions

A few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to be invited to present at the RTC 2018 conference in Beijing. For those that do not know, the RTC conference is a yearly Real Time Communications conference that joins 2500+ RTC experts and enthusiasts from all around the globe and where they share their viewpoints on how Real-Time Communications technology will define the future. I talked about WebRTC trends and use cases and I was mainly

Real Time Weekly #248: September 25, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! Hello everyone! In this issue we've got content on Anything-to-SMS with IFFT from Nexmo, IoS Messenger with Push from Pusher, Rich objects in a ChatEngine from PubNub and more. Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Thanks for Reading! @germangol Editor Anything-to-SMS with IFTTT and Nexmo Sep 18 Nexmo Learn how to make use of IFTTT (IF

Real Time Weekly #247: September 17, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! Hello everyone! In this issue we've got content from Pusher about push notifications, TokBox integrating Nexmo SIP, WebRTCHacks covering WebRTC & Safari, and more! Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Thanks for Reading! @germangol Editor NOTE: Real Time Weekly subscribers are only shared with RTWeekly's parent company, WebRTC.ventures. Create a live stocks application

Henry Ford was once quoted as saying, "The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people".  You know what we do at webRTC.ventures — we bring people together by closing geographical gaps using real time communication. However, you may not know WHO we are...that is until now. Each week, we have been introducing you to a member of our team. This week we would like to

Real Time Weekly #246: September 10, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! Hello everyone! In this issue we've got content from Twilio about Programmable Video, desktop notifications with PubNub, the Tic Tac Toe game using Ably.io, and a web-based caller ID using Nexmo. In addition, we're sharing the release notes of Firefox 63 with many bug fixes for WebRTC. Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to

WebRTC Ventures — a provider of custom, real-time applications with video, voice, and data exchange — today announces the hiring of Ginger Germani as its Director of Telehealth Accounts. “From conversations with our clients, we know that there is a rapidly growing need for telehealth solutions. Healthcare professionals are realizing this immediate need but don’t want to wait months and months to offer a finished telehealth product. So, WebRTC.ventures has developed and can license an already-built telehealth platform which

Real Time Weekly #245: September 3, 2018 Welcome to Real Time Weekly! Hello everyone! We are here on the first Monday of September with more tutorials on technical blog posts about Real-time and WebRTC development. Your feedback is always welcome! So you can write me to share content, propose new topics, or just to say hello! Thanks for Reading! @germangol Editor NOTE: Real Time Weekly subscribers are only shared with RTWeekly's parent company, WebRTC.ventures. Follow us at @RealTimeWeekly for the most "real-time" updates! Build