• stayed in touch with my family via Marco Polo

    From August Abolins@2:221/360 to Doug Cooper on Mon May 18 18:01:07 2020
    On 5/17/2020 7:53 PM, between "Doug Cooper : Daniel":

    Excellent idea! Nothing worse during a pandemic then adding
    a heated political debate into the stress. Frankly, I've had
    zero interest in the TV, facebook, nor twitter or text
    messaging. I've stayed in touch with my family via Marco
    Polo, because I can see and hear their voices, without
    having to schedule a time to join a zoom call.

    PMFJI, but I've never heard of the app called Marco Polo. I was doing a little reading up on it, but it sounds a lot like the other video chat programs. Is MC a kind of store-n-forward video chat system akin to leaving a voice message on someone's phone, but with video?

    For an app that is completely free, and ad-free, there are sure a lot of people behind it based on the company group picture! How do they finance MC with so many salaries to pay for?

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  • From Doug Cooper@1:227/702 to August Abolins on Mon May 18 13:01:37 2020
    PMFJI, but I've never heard of the app called Marco Polo. I was doing a little reading up on it, but it sounds a lot like the other video chat programs. Is MC a kind of store-n-forward video chat system akin to leaving a voice message on someone's phone, but with video?

    For an app that is completely free, and ad-free, there are sure a lot of people behind it based on the company group picture! How do they
    finance MC with so many salaries to pay for?

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    August,

    Think of it like texting. You make a video to a specific person or group
    that you creaete (so for example I have a group called "Family," but also
    have individuals (including those within my family group) where we have more private conversations. The Ap notifies the person they have a video. When they have time and look presentable, they can watch the video and reply by simply clicking record, speaking, then hitting send. You can also upload videos from your camera roll. I made a video to walk my family through Busy Kid, an allowance ap for kids, and uploaded that to the Family group so they could see how it works, as they were interested. So it's like TEXTING, but with video. The great thing about it are two fold: 1. you don't have to schedule a time for a facetime party or zoom call 2. its 100% free. It's a very fun platform and very easy to use.

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