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Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely

#81

Only works in Internet Explorer 9, doesn't work in IE 8 in some companies they only allow you to use IE only and only upgrade the browser if they install a new OS.

If they're limited by the OS then it's on the way out, because XP is no longer supported.

Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely

#82

Only works in Internet Explorer 9, doesn't work in IE 8 in some companies they only allow you to use IE only and only upgrade the browser if they install a new OS.

If you're on IE 8, you have bigger issues than this working for you.

Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely

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post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The video shows Mark explaining to Sally how a Facebook login would work on her website with the whiteboard. A killer missing feature seems to be microphone support, which the video alludes to.

It's easy to add audio via skype/facetime/you-name-it though.

>> It's easy to add audio via skype/facetime/you-name-it though.

Really? I don't think running another app to get audio is a very user friendly solution, and you'll never be able to record a session. How about Opus and webRTC or similar?

Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely

#85
post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's easy to add audio via skype/facetime/you-name-it though.

>> It's easy to add audio via skype/facetime/you-name-it though. Really? I don't think running another app to get audio is a very user friendly solution, and you'll never be able to record a session. How about Opus and webRTC or similar?

Its critical to integrate all this - else every meeting begins with a struggle to get on the same page with every app and every participant.

Disclaimer: I work at Sococo

Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely

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This is little 'scratch-your-own-itch' project I started working on about 9 months ago. Front end is GWT, back end is Java servlets. Database was originally MySQL but switched to Prevayler for performance reasons. My YouTube video gives a nice overview of the benefits of a virtual whiteboard: http://youtu.be/MDEHFHG1l3Y What does Hacker News think?

The video shows Mark explaining to Sally how a Facebook login would work on her website with the whiteboard. A killer missing feature seems to be microphone support, which the video alludes to.

A similar site I built (http://stoodle.org) supports free group voice conferencing through Twilio.

Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely

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post #2

This is little 'scratch-your-own-itch' project I started working on about 9 months ago. Front end is GWT, back end is Java servlets. Database was originally MySQL but switched to Prevayler for performance reasons. My YouTube video gives a nice overview of the benefits of a virtual whiteboard: http://youtu.be/MDEHFHG1l3Y What does Hacker News think?

This looks awesome!! Using servlets how did you make it so that the changes on the whiteboard take effect on all browser windows? or is that something GWT does?

Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely

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post #14

I love it - works perfectly... but immediately the feature creeper in me has kicked in. Killer features 1. Be able to type in text (any font will do) 2. Drag-and-drop an image to be be able to annotate it over the top (would be excellent design task, e.g. using screenshots of some work-in-progress). 3. Movable objects?

A similar site I built ( http://stoodle.org ) supports these three features in addition to group voice conferencing through Twilio.

I just tried stoodle, but I'm not seeing the data being replicated across windows. e.g I have some doodles here in http://stoodle.ck12.org/class/53f619cc417e3 but when i open this link in another chrome tab (or a different browser ffox), I am not seeing anything
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