Web-based conferencing has a new construct: Collaboration Spaces.

The originator of Collaboration Spaces, ClackPoint, now has a new owner: Voxeo.

In November, Voxeo garnered $9 million in venture funding from North Atlantic Capital and the Florida Growth Fund. At the time, CEO Jonathan Taylor acknowledged that he would put the new funding to use to make strategic acquisitions to strengthen the core positioning as a provider of “unlocked communications”. Though it says its offering is “in beta” ClackPoint has made widgets, gadgets and API’s that designed to allow its end-users to “unlock” virtual conference rooms by entering the room number over the phone or through Web-based services.

It is a timely acquisition by Voxeo. The dominant forces in Web-based conferencing, led by the likes of Cisco with its its acquisition or Tanberg, Microsoft with video over OCS and Avistar with the introduction of new versions of its core desktop conferencing resources, expect such services to move downmarket by lowering the cost of entry and operation. With the addition of ClackPoint, Voxeo is investing in a company that has anticipated such a move.

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Tags: SaaS, Voxeo, Recombinant Communications, conferencing