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Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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Post by hippich »

eric_bullington wrote: post #38
MikeCodeAwesome wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Just to be clear - their Linux version is really windows one running under wine.

Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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Post by beagle3 »

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).

While I have no experience with screen sharing, letting other people on a skype conversation see your screen works quite well even with the old Skype 2 client on Linux. (Well, at least it used to - the last couple of weeks had Skype conference quality deteriorate horribly, on all of Linux, Windows and Mac.

Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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Post by watty »

> It's like Google Docs for any application

Isn't this a bit too misleading? The appeal of Google Docs is that two people can work on a spreadsheet at the same time. They can be working on different cells or even different sheets of a workbook. PowWow allows one person to work on a spreadsheet at a time but allows you to quickly and seamlessly switch who is working on it. In other words, only one person can type.

Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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Post by intelliot »

watty wrote: post #45

> It's like Google Docs for any application Isn't this a bit too misleading? The appeal of Google Docs is that two people can work on a spreadsheet at the same time. They can be working on different cells or even different sheets of a workbook. PowWow allows one person to work on a spreadsheet at a time but allows you to quickly and seamlessly switch who is working on it. In other words, only one person can type.

I agree, it's not a perfect comparison. It's appropriate, though: I can quickly understand what it's about. And they do use the word "like" - it's not exactly Google Docs, but it's LIKE Google Docs and can (for certain apps) be a great alternative.

Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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Post by fireballer »

Ganthor wrote: post #5

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

It looks like a total copy of the concept/interactions to be honest. Hopefully for Powwow GoInstant hasn't patented this stuff...

Good artists copy, great artists steal perhaps?

Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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Post by tabulatouch »

jsherwani wrote: post #20
Ganthor wrote: post #5

Does 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 ma…

That's great hacking guys. I am waiting for the Windows version, where i think you'll have a hard time escaping the "only one window has focus" dogma. Btw, if you need beta testers i am here.
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