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Palbee Videoconferencing Closing Down
February 19th, 2009 by Video Conferencing Expert
According to its website, Palbee will be closing down its services on February 25th. The South Korean video conferencing service was founded in 2004. Their site is still up, but when you load the page, it dims with a screen that reads:
Palbee was an experiment in making interactive web conferencing available for free to the masses, with the objective of making it easier to share knowledge and stay connected with people around the world. It was a smaller part of a larger project aimed at facilitating knowledge sharing. After much consideration, we have decided to take down the existing Palbee service. The Palbee web conferencing service will be replaced by a platform that enables people around the world to create rich e-learning courses, to teach learners around the world. Thank you for being a part of Palbee. If you require free multi-user web conferencing, we recommend that you take a look at Adobe’s Acrobat ConnectNow service. Please note, we will not be providing technical support or bug fixes for the free Palbee service between now and the date that the service is discontinued.
Palbee had always been in beta as long as the site was active and no word yet on exactly what services their next platform will provide. Palbee was a Flash-based video conferencing service that allowed people to video conference across all computer platforms and browsers free-of-charge. Wikipedia states that the startup had 20 employees and a revenue of $2.5 million, although with a completely free service and no advertisements, I’m not sure where that was coming from, or it might have just been an annual average of capital investments.