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Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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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.

I thought GoInstant was for sales mainly.

Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

#35
post #6

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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.

Honestly I'm amazed it works at all. They run it in WINE.

Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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post #18
post #7

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 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 a…

Have a look at Opus, another free audio codec that provides lower latency (~22ms) and better quality than Vorbis.

It also scales down to low-bitrate speech, but I doubt you need that for your application.

Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

#37
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It has always worked pretty well for me but I only share one screen.

Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

#38
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I've never had a problem with TeamViewer on Linux and I'm grateful that they made a Linux version.
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