Skype 2.8 for Mac coming Tuesday, with screen sharing and WiFi connector
Webware.com — ... Screen sharing is useful in business settings (I get a lot of demos over apps like Webex, for example), but it has personal applications as well: People could share photographs, and presumably videos as well, using the feature. ...

Skype For Mac Adds Screen Sharing, Wi-Fi Service
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... services like WebEx . This could also be useful for non-business users to share photos, videos, and show visual demonstrations with friends and family. But the beta only allows Mac users to share their screens, Windows and ...

Recession Survival: 9 Ways To Make More Money As A Web Designer
SitePoint — If you’re feeling the pressure of a sinking economy, there are things you can do to bump up your income without dropping your rates or taking on non-ideal clients. Here are nine ideas that may make you more money during these tight financial times. 1. Offer Training Have you ever been asked by a client if they can maintain the site you designed, but they don’t know how? Consider offering training services to teach them what they need to know to update their site themselves. Even if you have no desire to sit in a client’s office to train them, you can ...

Wizzard To Automate Ad Campaigns With Ad Server Ando
Podcasting News — ... Wizzard and Ando Media’s first joint ad campaign, already underway, will be for Cisco’s Webex, a digital tele-conference service. ...

Interop Insider #2 (MP3): Cisco Offers Email Security In The Cloud
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... Cisco is of course no stranger to the cloud. We sometimes forget that one of the original cloud-based companies -- WebEx -- is a part of Cisco. But as Nick Edwards explains in this podcast interview, Cisco has other cloud moves up its sleeve and one of those moves is recreate all of the Ironport email security functionality in the cloud. As Edwards put it, organizations can choose from one of three approaches offered by Cisco: to go solely with IronPort appliances on premises, to go solely with the IronPort functionality in the cloud, or to go a hybrid approach. You can ...

Bridging the Distance: TimeBridge Now Includes Web Conferencing [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... or conference call by prompting you to pick some ideal date and time options, and then send them to the participants to vote on their best dates and times. It then provides you with a mechanism to accept a mutually agreeable timeslot and confirm the meeting with everyone. Now, built right into the scheduler, is a button to “make it a Web conference” or “add a free conference call”. The web-based conferencing system rivals WebEx and GoToMeeting. It is entirely Flash-based, so requires zero download, and seems to ...

Bargain Conference Calling Comes to TimeBridge
ReadWriteWeb — We covered the innovative TimeBridge meeting scheduling system and fast growth in December. Today, they are announcing the availability of web meeting and conference call support at a low price. The premium upgrade to the standard free TimeBridge service costs $8.95 a month. If your company spends a bunch on conference call costs, this may end up being a key decision-maker between this service and one of its competitors. Sponsor The integration of conference calling into the TimeBridge system is pretty seamless. When creating a new meeting or appointment time, ...

Beyond freemium: The Timebridge business model works
Webware.com — ... to multiple different people (for different meetings) all at once -- is just the come-on. The business is the service's resale of online and phone meeting services. Timebridge meetings can now instantly get their own dial-in conference bridge numbers, and Nelken's gets a cut of the call revenues. Timebridge is also selling relatively inexpensive subscriptions to an online screen-sharing service, the open-source DimDim (previous coverage), that competes with Webex and GoToMeeting. Timebridge's conferencing service is $8.95 a month, compared to $39 a ...

Meeting24.tv Keeps Online Meetings Simple
TechCrunch — ... same Tokyo- (and San Jose)-based company that runs Utagoe Live 100 (FriendFeed for video streams), developed the streaming technology behind it. Like Utagoe Live 100, meeting24.tv also has a similar minimalistic feel to it, which is supposed to make it easy for anyone to use - even those with little web experience. The service is based on the assumption that other online meeting solutions such as TokBox (which we covered three times), Cisco’s Webex, Polycom or Skype are just too complex. In fact, ...

Tungle: Schedule Meetings Your Way [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... Going forward, Tungle plans to incorporate the service into social networking platforms as well as collaboration and conferencing tools such as Webex and ...

Virtual Life Can Be A Solution To Stay Healthy In Your Real Life
Profy — ... will be a good substitute to a real face-to-face meeting, now Skype team seems to have yet another reason to support this approach: you will certainly not get infected by your companion when you both sit behind your computer screens - probably thousands of miles apart. Any presentation that you may need to give to a customer or a partner - be it in a nearby building or overseas - can easily be replaced with a virtual meeting using conferencing tools like GoToMeeting, Webex or the above-mentioned Mikogo. Such desktop sharing tools will let you further reduce ...

Skype Hates Me. Maybe That's Because I Treat It Like Net2Phone?
louisgray.com — ... . You could, from your Web browser, initiate a conference call to up to 32 participants, and manage the entire conference, including putting people on mute or hold, from your Web browser. You could also invite them, on the fly, to a Web meeting, and share a presentation or your desktop. But as a small startup, we ran into two major issues. The first was that WebEx had raised scads of money and was spending tens of millions on marketing, including a Super Bowl ad featuring RuPaul. The second was that pricing the product, no matter how we did it, seemed expensive, as ...

Present.io: No Download, Simple Setup Presentations [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... While present.io can’t compete with the more robust paid web presentation systems out there like WebEx and ...

17 Online Meeting Tools That Facilitate Collaboration
SitePoint — ... Recording and archiving Cost: Free for up to 3 participants, starts at $19 per session for up to 10 participants 15. Voxwire Share your screen, desktop and files Integrate video conferencing Record and playback meetings Customize screen layout No downloads of any kind Cost: 30-day free trial, starts at $39 per month for up to 20 participants 16. WebEx Pass control to others Get integrated phone ...

Virtual Chat Room TinyChat Adds Video Conferencing And Screen Sharing
TechCrunch — ... Of course video streaming and web conferencing is old news and there are significant amount of services that do the same thing including Cisco’s WebEx, ...

How well do Netbooks work with Web apps?
Webware.com — ... --We wanted to put WebEx through its paces, but for the sake of this story we're going with free tools. DimDim, one of my personal favorites, makes for a good test subject. Its free version lets you screen share, video chat, voice chat, work on a whiteboard, co-view Web pages, and even record the entire session to view later. I did all of those things, and while there was a little slow-down when co-viewing Web pages, the person on the other end said that the video and voice were coming in loud and clear. ...

Cisco’s Take on Telecommuting and Productivity [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... Of the time saved by not commuting, 60 percent was spent working more while only 40 percent of the time saved was consumed by personal activities. Mazid also described his personal use of telecommuting at Cisco. Based on his calendar and work scheduled for the day, he decides whether or not he should spend the time working from his office at Cisco or from home. Even when he goes into the office, most of his team meetings are conducted online using WebEx to accommodate employees working from other locations. ...

The Four Essential Apps for Distributed Teams
ReadWriteWeb — ... If you're looking for full video and audio capabilities, conferencing is the most resource-heavy of the quartet, which is why there are more options available from big vendors. The most popular these days include: WebEx from Cisco, ...

Huddle takes online collaboration tools to the next level
VentureBeat — ... project management into one package, is marketing itself as the ideal solution for small businesses and government agencies looking to team up on projects remotely. Earlier this month, the U.K.-based company won the TechCrunch Europas competition for its innovation and ease of use, but it has yet to gain traction across the pond in the U.S. While there are many startups specializing in segments of Huddle’s services — Drop.io, Webex, SlideRocket and countless others come to mind — few offer all of these ...

Team Apart Makes the Virtual Meeting Social [Invites]
Mashable! — There is a lot of software out there for conducting virtual conferences and performing demos: GoToMeeting, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, WebEx, and AdobeAcrobat Connect immediately come to mind. Most of these programs though require software to be installed and are meant for conference meetings rather than team collaboration. They’re not virtual workspaces. Enter Team Apart (formerly Meetcast), a Y Combinator-funded startup that is now launching its free, web-based workspace application. And it is something to behold: not only does it carry ...

Team Apart: Real-time, Browser-based Collaboration & Meetings
ReadWriteWeb — Team Apart is an online meeting space and collaboration tool launched in private beta today. The software includes a browser-based video/audio conference, a text notepad, and a whiteboard for drawing. All of these options are updated in real-time for conference attendees, and the conference space can persist over time. Obvious competitors for Team Apart are the larger Web conferencing solutions like WebEx and GoToMeeting. But considering the document side of Team Apart and the fact that its work spaces stick around, the startup most similar is ...

iPhone Call Recording: It Makes Too Much Sense Not to Do
louisgray.com — ... could be sitting on a much bigger use for this functionality - doing podcasts and interviews, which would take money out of the pockets of services like WebEx and ...

Dyyno: Stream Live Video From Any Desktop App
ReadWriteWeb — ... for Cisco's popular WebEx online meeting solution. This brings all of Dyyno's capabilities to WebEx and makes it easy to integrate Dyyno into a platform that a lot of companies have already invested in. ...

Box.net Unites with Fuze Meeting
ReadWriteWeb — ... and WebEx. The company — a public one formerly listed as Callwave — was recently revitalized and now revolves around its online software service. ...

Salesforce Poaches Cisco's Collaboration Guru
ReadWriteWeb — ... , and was most recently Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Collaboration Software Group, making him the man in charge of WebEx and other popular offerings. He was also the one spearheading a rumored move by Cisco to make an online competitor with Microsoft Office and other Web-based collaboration suites. ...

Web meeting startup Dimdim goes big with Dimdim Webinar
VentureBeat — ... The Boston, Mass. company will allow customers to host online events with up to 1,000 attendees. Dimdim chief executive DD Ganguly has said the company is “democratizing” web meetings by providing them to an audience that couldn’t afford traditional services like Cisco’s WebEx. Even though Dimdim Webinar is presumably aimed at larger corporate customers, Dimdim emphasizes that “anyone” can use the service to make money with webinars — it’s easy to host a meeting, especially since neither attendees nor event ...

HP Launches SkyRoom: Skype Meets WebEx
Mashable! — Hewlett Packard is taking another stab at the virtual video conferencing market dominated by the likes of GoToMeeting and WebEx. The company unveiled SkyRoom, a PC desktop program that combines aspects of video conferencing, Skype, and IM. The product, launched simultaneously at the Intel Developers Conference and DEMO, is at the core a two-way video conferencing system. It has similarities to Halo, HP’s teleconferencing solution, but it seems focused on smaller businesses and consumers. What makes it killer though is the ability to share high ...

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Fuze Box: Seamless Mobile and Browser-based Virtual Meetings
Mashable! — This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: Fuze Box Quick Pitch: Fuze Box provides applications that allow people to communicate, collaborate and conference from any device, anywhere in the world. Genius Idea: Fuze Box, which presented earlier this week at the DEMO ...

The Future of Collaboration: Video Conferencing [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... , there is already a huge choice of web app video conferencing options available in this highly competitive space, from higher-end tools like WebEx (also a Cisco product) through midrange offerings like ...

Video Webcast Platform Vivu Raises $3 Million First Round
paidContent — ... ViVu’s Java- and Flash-based platform lets people create and attend webinars on PCs, Macs and even mobile phones, complete with streaming video capabilities. The startup says users don’t need to install anything to attend the webcasts—a direct jab at rivals like Cisco’s Webex and Citrix’s ...

What To Do Before Your Web App Shuts Down [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... up your options, not just your data. Yes, a cool app like Projecho comes along that offers affordable and super-easy video conferencing, but clearly it isn’t the only game in town. Before you go ditching your more costly option or before you jump on a new app bandwagon for any reason, have a contingency plan — a fallback app — that you can go to immediately if the new one fails. Of course you may save a bundle moving from a WebEx to a Projecho, but look at the unanticipated costs of having to switch back over, retrain ...