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Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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Post by alephnil » Sun, Dec 16, 2012, 3:39 PM UTC

Gormo wrote: post #67

wooster wrote: post #15

I remember the PowWow McAfee founded that did collaborative web browsing.… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowWow_(chat_program)

I think this was also one of the first applications that could qualify as an instant messaging tool. I remember it coming out well before ICQ and AIM. I hope the guys working on this project don't end up mired in trademark issues.

> I think this was also one of the first applications that could qualify as an instant messaging tool

I would certainly consider IRC to be an instant messagig tool, and that has been around since around 1988, while the orginal PowWow seems to be from 1994, which would make it 6 years late to be first. The most well known networks like ICQ and MSN came some years later, so they were still early.

Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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Post by 89a » Mon, Dec 17, 2012, 10:47 AM UTC

"You are both always in control"

First thing you see in the video is that this isn't true

Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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Post by Gormo » Tue, Dec 18, 2012, 3:28 AM UTC

alephnil wrote: post #71

Gormo wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this was also one of the first applications that could qualify as an instant messaging tool. I remember it coming out well before ICQ and AIM. I hope the guys working on this project don't end up mired in trademark issues.

> I think this was also one of the first applications that could qualify as an instant messaging tool I would certainly consider IRC to be an instant messagig tool, and that has been around since around 1988, while the orginal PowWow seems to be from 1994, which would make it 6 years late to be first. The most well known networks like ICQ and MSN came some years later, so they were still early.

I suppose you could consider IRC and IM to have some significant feature overlap, but I'd still regard them as essentially different things. IRC's core feature is larger-scale many-to-many conversations, and IM's core feature is one-to-one conversation, and this in turn leads to significant differences usage patterns, interface conventions, network protocols etc. that even further differentiate them.

Re: PowWow - Collaborative Screen Sharing

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Post by nXqd » Tue, Dec 18, 2012, 8:35 PM UTC

Wump wrote: post #58

nXqd wrote: post #49

We cannot work parallel with this screen sharing right ? So it just looks juicy with cursor look like google docs :D

That's correct, two people can't be doing 2 different things at the same time (i.e., there is one keyboard). However you do have 2 mouse pointers and you can move/point/click with them independently. We found that in practice we actually preferred this because it's valuable to know that everyone is looking at the same thing at the same time.

yeah, that's why I say it just looks juicy because when using teamviewer or another screen sharing, we still talk discuss. Then knowing each other mouse is not necessary anymore :)