Correspondence: Henry Hon, Vyew, 2180A Dwight Way, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA. Tel: +1 800 594 4559; E-mail: tlane@vyew.com

¹is CEO of Vyew, which is a leading and award-winning browser-based visual collaboration and conferencing platform that enables web users to share ideas and create together in real time and over time. Before founding Vyew in 2004, Mr. Hon co-founded five companies: Dahon (1982), the world's largest folding bicycle company; Visionex (1991), a multimedia chip and card manufacturer sold to IBM; Ramax (1995), a chip and SRAM design company whose patents were sold to Intel; ShopD (1998), a B2B import and distribution portal with logistics support sold to a national import distributor; and Authenex (2001), a two-factor authentication and network security company that received more than $25m in venture funding. Mr. Hon has a degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley.

²is a high-tech public relations and marketing communications expert whose industry experience includes CAD/CAM, enterprise computing and Web 2.0 collaboration. He has worked both as a consultant in public relations agencies and in-house for high-tech software companies. He is the author of many feature-length magazine articles, case studies, white papers, news releases and product fact sheets.

Abstract

Michael Moon interviews Henry Hon and Todd Lane, of Vyew, a synchronous and asynchronous Web conferencing and visual collaboration platform.