Prepare to be impressed again. Four names you're likely to start hearing about, Philippe Clavel, Gregory Fischbach, Stephanie Morgan and Nicholas Reichenbach; together they're Rabbit. What Rabbit wants to do is to allow group video conferencing with the ability to screencast music, movies and applications from your Mac.
This means you can watch a movie from a service such as Netflix with your friends in real time. Or you can crop and share a specific part of your web browser or any other Mac app and broadcast it to your friends. You can check out their Youtube video just click here.
Rabbit connects with Facebook so you can easily invite your friends to video chat and share content with you. Whether it's screen-shared items from your Mac, a song on Spotify, YouTube, Hulu or even a movie, you'll now be able to hang out, move about, meet new people and just like at a party, mingle. It's not going to replace the human component but it will allow people that are already chatting in groups to add content to their chats.
The app is a native Mac client (but other platforms will be available soon), and offers the ability to video chat with an unlimited number of people. People are grouped into "rooms" and presented to you in priority based on your own friends, and within each room, individual groups can participate in their own conversations.
Beta invitations are rolling out to the service this month, so if you're interested, sign up and check it out, but get behind me in line.
More at @LetsRabbit
By David Deutsch
Creative-Founder of TheftyJack Studios, creators of Zombie I Scream for the iPhone/iPad [www.zombieiscream.com] comments to david.deutsch@theftyjack.com
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