Tag: CONFERENCING

Adobe Connect, Adobe's Flash-based Web conferencing solution, has just gained support for XMPP integration via a 'multi-user chat pod.' The chat pod will enable Connect users to chat with meeting participants using other chat clients and protols such as Adium or Jabber. Adobe hopes this will extend the collaborative possibilities of Connect using tools people already use, creating chat rooms, or ...

Microsoft's workplace collaboration tool, Office Communications Server, just got a big upgrade and a new, less stuffy name: Microsoft Lync 2010. Like OCS, Lync connects the various Microsoft services in a workplace, including Office, Exchange email and Sharepoint storage. It's also a hub for instant messenging, voice calls and video calls. The major new stuff in Lync 2010 includes enterprise ...

Iotum, whose tagline is "simply relevant", has made a name for itself in the voice 2.0 industry, combining VoIP technology with their own software wizardry to make life easier for busy telephone users, especially those holstering a Blackberry. Their next frontier is Facebook, the growing-like-a-weed social networking site that has a bent towards business-people and a larger user community than ...

I love Yugma. It is extremely painless to setup, use, and it is free to do it. Yugma is a web-conferencing tool that has excellent annotation tools, easy controls, and a simple sign-up process. It took me little more than ten minutes from sign-up to knowing how to use Yugma's tools and launching my first web conference without the trouble that WebEx usually gives me. I haven't tried Yugma yet ...

TeamSlide is like WebEx, DimDim, ZohoShow, and others that let you present your slides online to viewers. TeamSlide is a full-screen slide-showing and viewing application that doesn't really compete with web-sharing applications, because it is just for slideshows. It is browser-based, so it is effectively cross-platform. It uses PHP and AJAX to weave its magical craft for you and your slide-show ...

LifeHacker has a nice article on LiveOffice's free conferencing service. Up to 250 people for up to 6 hours (I really hope no one has ever had a 6 hour call, that is murder) for free. This conferencing service is one that you can use anytime, on demand, not one where you have to set up a call each time, which is nice. It also features many run-time features like mp3 call recording. I am always ...