This is super slick. Just played around with it with a friend and there's almost no lag. My CPU spun up quite a bit but nevertheless color me impressed. I'm curious how this is implemented though?
PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing
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Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing
#12awesome!!! been wanting something like this ;)
Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing
#13pair programming with this has the potential to be awesome
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#14Really 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 S…
I'd guess that voice chat is a completely different expertise than this.
Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing
#15I remember the PowWow McAfee founded that did collaborative web browsing.…
Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing
#16Really 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 S…
Additional resource would go to their homebrew implementation as well.
Not worth developing for an MVP, in my opinion.
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#17Looks 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.
I kind of hate to say this but I'm glad there's at least one other person out there who has troubles with TeamViewer on Linux. My remote coworker uses Ubuntu with two screens and we're unable to make the mouse work on the correct screen consistently. That and the screen won't update properly.
Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing
#18Really 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 S…
I'm a co-founder/dev at PowWow. VoiceChat is going to be in the next major release. We already have system audio being ogg/vorbis'ed to you so its not a question of expertise but simply time allocation. I completely agree that whenever we have PowWow'ed, we would have a active skype session since that's much easier than chat. That's also what a alpha release is supposed to be - to gather your inputs! So if everyone agrees that Voice chat is a must have it'll definitely be there in the general release!
Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing
#19I remember the PowWow McAfee founded that did collaborative web browsing.… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowWow_(chat_program)
That was my thought, is this a renewal of a 90s brand? The original PowWow was something that our QA people used for reasons I can't recall.
Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing
#20Does this differ from Goinstant ( http://www.goinstant.com/ )? It was aquired by Salesforce in July 2012 for $70MM.
I'm one of the co-founders of PowWow. We're a lot like GoInstant — in fact their demo video does an even better job than ours does of explaining the concept to a layperson. It's interesting that while their product and ours have very similar use cases, the technology stack is completely different. They have a browser-within-the-browser, while we have an interaction layer over the OS — and we both do crazy hacks to make multiple-mouse live collaboration work. We've met the GoInstant guys, and they're an awesome team with a great product, and we're definitely fans of theirs.