Vyew

Posted by on Dec 28, 2006 | 2 Comments

I enjoy attending technology conferences whenever my schedule and financial resources allow me to do so. It’s nice to actually see and interact with people in person once you’ve talked to them on the Internet through e-mail, instant messaging, or some other means for quite some time. These personal conferences only come around at certain times, so what are you going to do for the rest of the time? When interacting with clients, employees, and business partners, it only makes sense that you would want to bring the collaborative conference experience to your communication sessions. Vyew is a collaboration and live conferencing solution that should fit the bill quite nicely.

First of all, it’s completely based in your browser, so there’s no bloated or complicated software that the participants are required to download. You can share documents, images, and even your own desktop with others, and the typical whiteboard functionality is also included. You’ll need to communicate while you’re collaborating, and that’s why text chat and teleconferencing are built-in. Do yourself a favor and start a guest session to see what the Vyew interface looks like. To me, it looks like Notepad with a bunch of extra features.

[tags]Vyew, Conferences, Clients, Employees, Business Partners, Communication, Collaboration, Text Chat, Teleconferencing, Notepad[/tags]

  • https://www.yugma.com Karel Lukas

    Hi Brandon,

    I saw your blog and thought you might be interested to check out Yugma, a free real-time web collaboration app we recently launched ( https://www.yugma.com ). We’ve focused on being fast, super-easy, cross-platform, and low cost. In fact, the Yugma FREE service is free forever and let’s you invite up to 10 other people. You also get free teleconferencing, annotation, a cool widget, private and public chat, and more. Worth mentioning is that Voip, whiteboarding, and Linux are coming out soon. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

    All the best,
    Karel

  • Chris

    I checked out Yugma today and it continues to say that Linux screen sharing is coming soon. For now it’s just not an option for a Linux presenter. For now Vyew seems to be the best bet. I’ll look forward to seeing what Yugma can do when they catch up.