WebRTC Weekly Issue #105 - February 3, 2016

Here is the latest on WebRTC  from your friends at webrtcweekly.com.

Before we begin:

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Reading

The Relationship Between Social Media and WebRTC (netscan)
netscan is looking at the adoptio of WebRTC by social media services.

The Impact of ORTC on WebRTC Deployment and Adoption (The New Dial Tone)
What pundits think about ORTC and its impact on WebRTC.

More Money Into The Cloud As NewVoiceMedia Gets $30M For Its Contact Center Solutions (TechCrunch)
NewVoiceMedia gets fresh funding, and like every other contact center vendor – they have WebRTC.

Technical

Chrome M49 WebRTC Release Notes (discuss-webrtc)
Some useful media pipe lining features in store for us in Chrome 49 once it gets released.

Live Streaming the Snowpocalypse with WebRTC (webRTC.ventures)
Arin Sime plays in the snow and comes back with some live streaming code.

Building a Video/Audio Chat Web App with WebRTC (web-engineering.info)
Haven’t had a 101 dev post in quite some time.

Use Cases and Customer Wins

WebRTC and the Rising Tide of Remote Interpretation over the Internet (InterpretAmerica)
The interpretation market and how WebRTC makes it more accessible.

Phone.com and Sansay Collaborate to Implement Network Enhancements and WebRTC Real-Time Services (Press release)
Phone.com uses Sansay’s SBCs to offer WebRTC access into their service.

SnapMD Completes $5.3 Million First Closing of Series A Financing (Press release)
SnapMD receives funding.

Learn about the innovative ways developers used WebRTC at the 2016 AT&T Developer Summit Hackathon (AT&T Developer Program)
Some use cases that were hacked at the recent AT&T Developer Summit.

Zula Pivotes Into ZCast, A Podcasting Platform For The Masses (TechCrunch)
Zula is looking at the live streaming and podcasting space instead of communications.

Releases

Announcing callstats.io Java Library for Server and Conference Metrics (callstats.io)
Callstats.io is headed towards server-side analytics with a new Java library.

With new GitHub support, uProxy works everywhere (uProxy)
uProxy makes an interesting use of GitHub to get its WebRTC peer connections and data channel in place.

Drum Web Meetings feature release – upgrade your audio to video with a click of a button (Drum)
Drum makes it easier to move from voice to video meetings.

From our own posts