Comments on: Free Conference Calling and Web Collaboration http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/28/free-conference-calling-and-web-collaboration/ Specialization is for Insects. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:50:42 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: mark http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/28/free-conference-calling-and-web-collaboration/#comment-34426 mark Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:08:40 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/28/free-conference-calling-and-web-collaboration/#comment-34426 Hmmm. Interesting. I’d have never thought of that. I’ve never actually even looked at Second Life so one day I’ll have to do it. Hmmm. Interesting. I’d have never thought of that. I’ve never actually even looked at Second Life so one day I’ll have to do it.

]]> By: John P. http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/28/free-conference-calling-and-web-collaboration/#comment-30549 John P. Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:50:37 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/28/free-conference-calling-and-web-collaboration/#comment-30549 Drew, First of all, I'm glad you found the list helpful. :-) Secondly, the coincidence is eery because I wrote this post months ago and hadn't referred back to it in a long time, but just yesterday I came back to it so that I could do a Web based meeting! Personally I've used <a href="http://Vyew.com" rel="nofollow">Vyew.com</a> several times and I really like it. The free audio conferencing and the Web presentations and desktop sharing work incredibly well. Seriously, everyone I've show it to have been quite pleased. So check them out. Take care, John Drew,

First of all, I’m glad you found the list helpful. :-)

Secondly, the coincidence is eery because I wrote this post months ago and hadn’t referred back to it in a long time, but just yesterday I came back to it so that I could do a Web based meeting!

Personally I’ve used Vyew.com several times and I really like it. The free audio conferencing and the Web presentations and desktop sharing work incredibly well. Seriously, everyone I’ve show it to have been quite pleased. So check them out.

Take care,

John

]]> By: Drew http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/28/free-conference-calling-and-web-collaboration/#comment-30544 Drew Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:15:29 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/28/free-conference-calling-and-web-collaboration/#comment-30544 Thanks for the excellent list. Just want to add that we went through the same excercise and chose Yugma. We even paid the upgrade fee to allow for scheduled meetings. Unfortunately, the resolution on the other end -- both colors and text -- were so bad that we could not use it. Luckly we were presenting to a large corporate customer who were then able to host it on their WebEx system. Will check out the others and let you know. Thanks for sharing this valuable info - Drew Thanks for the excellent list. Just want to add that we went through the same excercise and chose Yugma. We even paid the upgrade fee to allow for scheduled meetings. Unfortunately, the resolution on the other end — both colors and text — were so bad that we could not use it. Luckly we were presenting to a large corporate customer who were then able to host it on their WebEx system. Will check out the others and let you know. Thanks for sharing this valuable info – Drew

]]> By: Low Cost Desktop Collaboration « Alec the Geek http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/28/free-conference-calling-and-web-collaboration/#comment-7287 Low Cost Desktop Collaboration « Alec the Geek Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:13:06 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/28/free-conference-calling-and-web-collaboration/#comment-7287 [...] Low Cost Desktop Collaboration Free Conference Calling and Web Collaboration - One Man’s Blog For freelancers on a budget John provides a list of free web collaboration services. Wish I had this information 12 months ago [...] [...] Low Cost Desktop Collaboration Free Conference Calling and Web Collaboration – One Man’s Blog For freelancers on a budget John provides a list of free web collaboration services. Wish I had this information 12 months ago [...]

]]> By: The Man http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/28/free-conference-calling-and-web-collaboration/#comment-711 The Man Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:14:21 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/28/free-conference-calling-and-web-collaboration/#comment-711 Hmmm. Interesting. I'd have never thought of that. I've never actually even looked at Second Life so one day I'll have to do it. Hmmm. Interesting. I’d have never thought of that. I’ve never actually even looked at Second Life so one day I’ll have to do it.

]]> By: hthth http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/28/free-conference-calling-and-web-collaboration/#comment-708 hthth Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:23:46 +0000 http://onemansblog.com/2007/02/28/free-conference-calling-and-web-collaboration/#comment-708 This is great, thanks for sharing. It'll definitely come to good use. I'd also like to point out one platform that's often overlooked because of its "game-like" appearance: Second Life. SL is a 3D Metaverse, or virtual world in which the users can create basically anything (check out SecondLife.com). The beauty of SL conferencing is that it allows an immersive experience, especially if you're showing off physical designs. It also has a lot of features, so you could in theory do your powerpoint presentation on a huge cinema screen in-world. Of course, if you're mainly concerned with getting a few slides across, then SL might be overhead — but for rapid prototyping of designs and when displaying different kinds of media (pictures, video, physical objects), it's quite intriguing. They also recently announced that VOIP capabilities would be integrated soon, to allow full 3D sound. -Hthth This is great, thanks for sharing. It’ll definitely come to good use.

I’d also like to point out one platform that’s often overlooked because of its “game-like” appearance: Second Life. SL is a 3D Metaverse, or virtual world in which the users can create basically anything (check out SecondLife.com).

The beauty of SL conferencing is that it allows an immersive experience, especially if you’re showing off physical designs. It also has a lot of features, so you could in theory do your powerpoint presentation on a huge cinema screen in-world.

Of course, if you’re mainly concerned with getting a few slides across, then SL might be overhead — but for rapid prototyping of designs and when displaying different kinds of media (pictures, video, physical objects), it’s quite intriguing. They also recently announced that VOIP capabilities would be integrated soon, to allow full 3D sound.

-Hthth

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