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PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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Post by siong1987 » Sat, Dec 15, 2012, 6:40 AM UTC

PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing
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Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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Post by rockyj » Sat, Dec 15, 2012, 6:55 AM UTC

Looks nice! I wish it gives support for Linux as well. Good screen sharing tools for Linux are virtually non-existent (and I am often ridiculed for it).

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Post by propercoil » Sat, Dec 15, 2012, 7:00 AM UTC

any version for ubuntu/other debian derivatives?

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Post by mparlane » Sat, Dec 15, 2012, 7:02 AM UTC

Two mice but surely not two cursors?

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Post by Ganthor » Sat, Dec 15, 2012, 7:04 AM UTC

Does this differ from Goinstant (http://www.goinstant.com/ )? It was aquired by Salesforce in July 2012 for $70MM.

Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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Post by crazysim » Sat, Dec 15, 2012, 7:09 AM UTC

rockyj wrote: post #2

Looks nice! I wish it gives support for Linux as well. Good screen sharing tools for Linux are virtually non-existent (and I am often ridiculed for it).

Teamviewer supports Linux but I'm interested to see if this does the sharing the screen and pointing thing better.

Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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Post by mgillett » Sat, Dec 15, 2012, 7:14 AM UTC

Really like the concept and the product feels great. I'm curious as to why voice chat was not included though. Is that planned in an upcoming release, because it seems like a pretty big setback. You may not be fighting over a single cursor anymore, but you're still fighting for control, and it's hard to coordinate that without talking to one another. I don't want to have to use up additional resources by entering a Skype chat either.

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Post by Argorak » Sat, Dec 15, 2012, 7:20 AM UTC

rockyj wrote: post #2

Looks nice! I wish it gives support for Linux as well. Good screen sharing tools for Linux are virtually non-existent (and I am often ridiculed for it).

I am constantly surprised by that. http://dozeo.com has screen export (we don't do screen sharing) support for Linux and its been the easiest implementation of all three. It is not official, as in "not our main business", but we do have CI for it and it should work in the future.

Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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Post by solox3 » Sat, Dec 15, 2012, 7:21 AM UTC

mparlane wrote: post #4

Two mice but surely not two cursors?

Two cursors. However, only one application can be active at any one time, so two people can't type at the same time.

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Post by RaphiePS » Sat, Dec 15, 2012, 7:26 AM UTC

Ganthor wrote: post #5

Does this differ from Goinstant ( http://www.goinstant.com/ )? It was aquired by Salesforce in July 2012 for $70MM.

Absolutely. GoInstant is for the web only, and is meant for tech support rather than collaboration.