Free Web Conference & Screen Sharing

david — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:53:00 GMT

Performing demo's over the web versus a F2F meeting is becoming more prevalent. Following are a list of some tools..all free.

Yugma
www.yugma.com
Offers free cross-platform (PC, Mac, Linux) web conference, screen control, chat, and FREE audio conferencing for up to 15 attendees (long distance charges may apply..but you already have VOIP, right?). Nice synch to Outlook and quick download. In my test, I was able to download the thin client in IE 8, but Firefox got hosed twice. Mac was fine. Go figure.
The paid version allows you to pre-schedule conferences on the web site.

Microsoft SharedView
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=95AF94BA-755E-4039-9038-63005EE9D33A&displaylang=en
I originally tried SharedView since it seemed like a LiveMeeting 'lite' and I am already confortable with that. The beta was a bit crunchy, and for screen sharing really awful...dropped connections, frozen frames...a nightmare. While this is now a 1.0 release, I have yet to give it a second chance. Besides, I may stick with yugma since SharedView is only for the PC. I am not so concerned with Linux, but I do need to connect with folks on Macs.

dimdim
www.dimdim.com
If you dig the whole open source thing, dimdim may be for you. It is also free for conferencing and audio. They also recently received some additional VC funding. Not sure why you'd care about open source web conferencing software...virtual world gaming if your future?? I have not tried it, but appears to be cross platform.

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Free Web Conference & Screen Sharing