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Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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Post by jsherwani » Sat, Dec 15, 2012, 8:13 AM UTC

Hey all! I'm one of the co-founders of PowWow. This has caught us all by surprise, but we're thrilled to see the response we've been getting so far. If you guys run into any issues, please let us know. We're in very early beta right now, so your feedback is very important. Feel free to reply in the comments here, or email us at everyone@powwow.cc. Happy PowWow-ing :)

Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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Post by rogerbinns » Sat, Dec 15, 2012, 8:15 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).

Have you tried Chrome Remote Desktop? https://chrome.google.com/remotedesktop

It has two modes of operation. One is where you work with a different person - whoever shares their screen starts Chrome and it generates a random access number which the other party enters.

The other mode is accessing your own machines which means there is no other party and chrome doesn't need to be running (the desktop is exported as a daemon/service).

It works really well in both modes, and supports Linux (which I use), Mac (also have one of them) and Windows. The viewer and sharer can both interact. The viewer is a tab within Chrome which you can also make fullscreen.

If you don't need to remotely interact then Skype works just fine and again has cross platform support.

Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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Post by waterlesscloud » Sat, Dec 15, 2012, 8:31 AM UTC

trimes wrote: post #19

wooster wrote: post #15

I 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.