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Instant Four-Way Free Videoconferencing Across All Devices with vLine

Instant Four-Way Free Videoconferencing Across All Devices with vLine | Online Collaboration Tools | Scoop.it
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vLine is a new free videoconferencing app that allows you to easily video chat with one or more people with no downloads or plugins to install. 


Use is very simple. As soon as you hit the vLine home page you are provided with a link to share with your contacts.Share the link, click GO, set a name for yourself and you are in. (Actually you need to wait at least for another person to join in, before you can see the conferencing room.) 


Invisible UI. Only basic commands, to pause audio, video or the entire call, that show just-in-time, when you need them.


Extremely easy to use. Works out of the box. Offers a simple and immediate foolproof solution to instantly videoconference for anyone having a good ADSL /broadband line. 


Best experience is with up to 4 simultaneous users.

Works only in latest versions of Chrome and Firefox.

Works great with Chrome on Android. iOS app coming.


No download, no registration, no login required.


Free to use. 


Try it out now: https://vline.com/ 


FAQ: https://vline.com/about/faq 


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Videoconference and Co-Navigate Docs, Slides, Clips and Maps with MashMeTV

Videoconference and Co-Navigate Docs, Slides, Clips and Maps with MashMeTV | Online Collaboration Tools | Scoop.it
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MashMeTV is a real-time collaboration web app which allows you to create one or more persistent collaboration rooms that integrate the following features:
 

  • video-conferencing for up to 12 people
  • whiteboard
  • Google Drive collaboration on docs and presentations
  • SlideShare in-sync presentation viewing
  • YouTube in-sync video viewing
  • Google Maps co-navigation
  • co-browsing
  • text chat
  • room visual personalization
  • free storage of 2.5 GB


Rooms can be set to be public or private (with a password that you can share), official meetings can be scheduled and you can invite anyone easily from within MashMeTV.



A good tool for collaborating with your team or for presenting to a few people your ideas or project. Unique in its ability to bring together several "view-together" functions under one roof.


Free to use for up to 24/hr/mo and for a max of 5 people at a time.



Pricing: http://www.mashme.tv/page/pricing 


Find out more: http://www.mashme.tv/ 


Features: http://www.mashme.tv/page/tour 


FAQ: http://www.mashme.tv/page/faq 


(Added to Pinterest collection Top Free 20 Video Conferencing Tools 2013)







Lee Tonitto's curator insight, December 17, 2013 4:52 AM

MashMeTV is a real-time collaboration web app which allows you to create one or more persistent collaboration rooms that integrate the following features:
 

video-conferencing for up to 12 peoplewhiteboardGoogle Drive collaboration on docs and presentationsSlideShare in-sync presentation viewingYouTube in-sync video viewingGoogle Maps co-navigationco-browsingtext chatroom visual personalizationfree storage of 2.5 GB
sara suarez's curator insight, February 1, 2014 12:35 AM

LAS NUEVAS CHARLAS QUE ENCONTRAMOS EN EL SIGLO XXI...

Internet ha transformado nuestras vidas. Es con mucho una de las revoluciones más importantes que ha experimentado la humanidad y va a seguir cambiando nuestra sociedad en los próximos años.Sin duda la red nos ofrece innumerables oportunidades y es una herramienta indispensable que tiende a reducir las diferencias entre aquellos que tenemos la suerte de vivir en el denominado primer mundo.En nuestra avanzada sociedad, pese a existir aún reductos de marginación y pobreza, los problemas más acuciantes tienen mucho que ver con la educación de los niños.La falta de valores y referentes está marcando de forma indeleble el comportamiento de nuestros hijos. Y el ámbito donde mejor se mueven es precisamente el de la red, donde también es necesario regirse por unos valores y referentes que les permitan atajar los problemas con los que se van a encontrar día a día.La intimidad propia y ajena debe ser un concepto que los chicos deben tener claro.Los límites de lo que pueden subir a la red deben conocerlos y deben saber que la verdadera amistad es mucho más que un amigo virtual.Las consecuencias de una burla en la red son demoledoras e infinitas por definición.Es perfectamente posible que un desconocido pueda contactar con un menor y es una realidad incuestionable que los niños pasan demasiadas horas delante del ordenador sin hacer deporte, sin leer un buen libro y sin un adulto de referencia que le ayude a discriminar lo que le conviene de lo que no.Y por supuesto pueden acceder a contenidos claramente inadecuados para su edad. La red es algo cotidiano en nuestras vidas y algo indispensable en la de nuestros hijos.Es nuestra responsabilidad educarles en el buen uso de la misma y ejercer la patria potestad también en el mundo virtual. Un mundo donde los problemas son absolutamente reales.

Luís Cálix's curator insight, October 1, 2014 6:32 PM

Uma boa ferramenta para trabalho colaborativo!

A versão livre permite até 5 utilizadores em simultâneo, 12 horas por mês.

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Compare and Evaluate The Best Web Conferencing and Collaboration Tools

Compare and Evaluate The Best Web Conferencing and Collaboration Tools | Online Collaboration Tools | Scoop.it
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If you need to review and compare alternative web conferencing and online collaboration tools you should give a look to Online Meeting Tools Review, a web service providing basic information for 35 different tools.


I have already recommended this service in May 2012, but the service has been significantly improved and updated.

For each service included you get a review, a direct link to its home page and free trial offering, and an overall rating score.


With the Basic Comparison Tool you can review up to four different conferencing services side-by-side for no additional fee: https://webconferencing-test.com/en/compare-tools-basic


With the Pro version of the same Comparison Tool you can get up to 12 different tools compared into a report that is sent straight to your email without any cost. The only requirement is that you accept the option of being later contacted by one of the companies you have requested to be compared.


Free to use.


Testing methodology: https://webconferencing-test.com/en/how-we-test


Try it out now:  https://webconferencing-test.com/en/online-meeting-home




Gianfranco Marini's curator insight, April 23, 2013 12:46 AM

Mi limito a tradurre liberamente quanto scritto da Robin Good

Il sitohttps://webconferencing-test.com/en/online-meeting-home offre informazioni che consentono di comparare 35 strumenti per il web conferencing e la collaborazione on line Si tratta di strumenti software o webware.

 

Per ciascuno di essi viene proposto un link in cui è possibile: visdualizzare una descrizione del servizio e delle sue principali caratteristiche; andare alla home page del servizio; scaricare o registrarsi alla versione trial

 

I criteri in base a cui vengono esaminati i servizi di web conferenging sono: 

usabilità, funzionalità, meeting setup, installazione, trasparenza costi, sicurezza supporto piattaforma e score overall e sono spiegati qui: https://webconferencing-test.com/en/how-we-test

 

In questa pagina https://webconferencing-test.com/en/compare-tools-basic è; possibile selezionare due o più servizi per poterne confrontare direttamente le caratteristiche in base agli 8 criteri persei in considerazione

 

 

Carl Heine's curator insight, June 12, 2013 9:32 AM

Here's a comparison we'll keep handy as we continue to provide effective solutions for Web conferencing on CoolHub.

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Find and Share Contextual Info While You Videoconference with Mindmeld (iPad)

Robin Good: Mindmeld is an upcoming iPad app which allows you to conference in real-time with other people with video and audio, and to find relevant related information about the things that are being mentioned in your talk.

As you are video-conferencing you can tap a light bulb icon which powers a background search on the terms being mentioned in your conversation. By sliding the conferencing pane to the left, you can then reveal a information page that lists both the key terms being mentioned, as well as related information pins, on the very topics being identified.

You can also type in manually any term or topic you would like to see more info on, and immediately share any relevant info block with everyone else in the meeting.


"MindMeld is an iPad app (for now) that uses Facebook’s open graph and identity to help create quick audio or video conferences. Add a few people and start talking. But here is where things get interesting: As you speak (or other participants speak), the app listens and starts surfacing information pertaining to what you are talking about."


Check this GigaOM review: http://gigaom.com/2012/09/11/new-app-mindmeld-heralds-the-era-of-anticipatory-computing/


Impressive.


Find out more: http://www.expectlabs.com/mindmeld?kid=HMZJ 


(Thanks to @OPEN_INTEL for pointing me to it.)


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Cloud Collaboration Platform Integrates Everything from Conferencing To Document Editing: BizAnytime.com

Cloud Collaboration Platform Integrates Everything from Conferencing To Document Editing: BizAnytime.com | Online Collaboration Tools | Scoop.it

Robin Good: BizAnytime is a new online collaboration platform which integrates real-time audio and video conferencing, a sharing workspace, task management and more.


The key strength of the service is a very-low entry price ($10/member/month) which gives you access to all of its features.


Other key features include:

- Free file storage of 70GB

- Document collaboration

- Calendar integration

- Notes

- Project and task management

- Unlimited web conferencing with:

-- video + VoIP

-- text chat

-- whiteboard

-- screen-sharing

- Mobile support for smartphones and tablets



One day free trial available here: https://app.bizanytime.com/register


Find out more: https://app.bizanytime.com/



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Web and HD Video Conferencing Across Mac, PCs and Smartphones: Fuze Meeting

Web and HD Video Conferencing Across Mac, PCs and Smartphones: Fuze Meeting | Online Collaboration Tools | Scoop.it

Fuze Meeting is a free web conferencing and online meeting software that allows desktop and screen sharing on Mac, PC, iOS and Blackberry devices.


Key features include: 

  • Multi-party HD Video Conferencing
  • Webinars up to 100 participants
  • Meeting Recording
  • Site Branding
  • Unlimited Toll Audio Conferencing
  • Unlimited Storage Space
  • Screen Sharing with Remote Desktop Control
  • Interoperability with enterprise video-conferencing systems such as Microsoft’s Lync, Tandberg, LifeSize, Polycom, and Teliris, and all Android, IOS (Apple), and Blackberry mobile devices.

A free 14-day trial is available here: https://www.fuzemeeting.com/purchase/14day/1 


A Personal plan account (25 attendees) starts at $29/month, the Plus is $49 (45 attendees) and the Professional is $69/mo. (up to 100 attendees + meeting recording and site branding).


Find out more: http://www.fuzemeeting.com/ 

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Co-Browse Any Web Page Instantly with Surfly

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Surfly is a new web-based app which allows you co-browse any web page while being able to show and see each other live cursor in real-time.


You can invite multiple attendees, and each one of them can see your selected web pages no matter what kind of device or screen size they have. As you scroll the page, they see it scrolling too.


To start a session you simply share a URL with those who you want to invite. No software to download or install. No need to even to register or login. 


My comment: The best, easiest and most convenient tool to co-browse and collaborate over any web page at a distance. It works instantly. Nothing to do make it work. Simplicity and immediacy win over features.


API available. 


Free to use.


Try it out now: https://surfly.com/ 


Company Blog: http://www.surfly.com/blog/ 




Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight, June 3, 2014 8:13 PM

A new app that lets you surf the net collaboratively. 

Sue Alexander's curator insight, June 6, 2014 9:21 PM

 

 

This looks like another great collaboration tool for my students; certainly deserves a closer look.

alexislucas's curator insight, June 9, 2014 5:56 AM

de mémoire ça ne marche pas bien car cela souffre de lags et se révèle contre-intuitif

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Create Persistent Collaboration Rooms To Chat & Videoconference with Ninchat

Create Persistent Collaboration Rooms To Chat & Videoconference with Ninchat | Online Collaboration Tools | Scoop.it



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Ninchat is a web service which offers you the ability to create one or more persistent, online collaboration rooms, where you can text chat and videoconference with up to 12 people concurrently.


Collaborations rooms, or channels, created with Ninchat integrate text, video conferencing and file sharing via Dropbox. These rooms can be set to be "public" or "private" depending on your needs.


The chat history is "infinite" and fully searchable, allowing for effective  asynchronous exchanges, and messages can be exchanged also privately between individual users.


All Ninchat communications are SSL encrypted, there is an open API to extend and customize this service, and the service works across desktop computer and tablets/smartphones (Android only for now).


Basic plan free to use (2 rooms).


Higher pricing plans go from a "Small" 5-room option at $15/mo up to "large" for 30-rooms at $70/mo.


Try it out now: https://ninchat.com/


Android version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ninchat.client.android


*added to my collection: Top 20 Free Videoconferencing Tools 2013




Dena Patrick|Wishadoo's comment, April 29, 2013 9:07 AM
I greatly appreciate these posts, Robin. I'm trying to find the best platform to have a series of online presentation/conversations and feel rather overwhelmed. I need the ability to present material, have live interaction in various forms (video, phone and text/chat), and record the sessions. Free or low cost, as well. I've assumed Google Hangouts would be the best choice but I greatly appreciate the other options you're presenting.
Robin Good's comment, April 29, 2013 9:59 AM
Glad to be of help Dena.
Carmenne Kalyaniwala's curator insight, April 30, 2013 2:49 AM

An interesting platform. Basic functions are free.

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Free Videoconferencing, Collaborative Viewing and Screencasting with Rabbit



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Rabbit is a (Mac-only) video-conferencing, collaboration and synch-viewing downloadable software which allows you to text chat, video-conference, view clips and images together with others and to screencast your own screen.


Rabbit is characterized by offering the opportunity to create private "meeting rooms" in which to invite and collaborate with others. Rooms are designed in beautiful, creative ways giving more space to the human aspect rather than to the technical one.


You can video chat with up to 10 guests simultaneously (plus you) and benefit from the innovative conferencing layout offered by Rabbit, where video feeds can be placed around a shared content or laid out in other alternative ways.


With Rabbit it is possible to real-time share any content from YouTube, Hulu, Spotify (audio sharing), Vimeo and more, as well as to screencast any open application you have on your computer.


Free to use.


For more info see: http://www.rabb.it/


Help / Support: http://help.rabb.it/rabbit


Download now here (Mac): http://apps.facebook.com/letsrabbit/ 


Check this Robert Scoble video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nTomErrdDJs


and: https://apps.facebook.com/letsrabbit/




Selin Carrasco's curator insight, April 22, 2013 12:21 AM

lo que mas he buscado - a probar ahora!!

Raquel Oliveira's comment, April 25, 2013 5:28 PM
Hope this will be available for all very soon as e learning tool.
Raquel Oliveira's curator insight, April 25, 2013 5:29 PM

Amazing chat tool for better learning experiences.

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Free Group Video Chat and Screen-Sharing with the new Hall.com

Free Group Video Chat and Screen-Sharing with the new Hall.com | Online Collaboration Tools | Scoop.it

Robin Good: Hall.com has released a new version of its web app which allows you to create persistent collaboration workspaces, adding video-conferencing for up to 12 people and screen-sharing.


The free version allows for up to 6 people in a video conference, screen-sharing, online storage, chat, IM and more. See more about feature and pricing here: https://hall.com/about/pricing


The Hall desktop app runs on Windows and Mac and apps for iPhone and Android are already available.


More info: https://hall.com/




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Beyond Task Lists, Project Gantt Charts and Mindmaps: Organize Your Information Tasks with mySimpleSurface

Beyond Task Lists, Project Gantt Charts and Mindmaps: Organize Your Information Tasks with mySimpleSurface | Online Collaboration Tools | Scoop.it

Mysimplesurface is a new kind of visualization and information-organization tool that sits between a mindmap, a project management and a task-list tool.


From the site: "My simple surface is fast and designed to manage lots of things in a semi-structured environment."


"...My simple surface is like a big white board for quickly and easily organising lots of things. When there's too much going on, you need space. You need a surface to put things on. Move things around. Step back. Organise, and re-organise."


Sets of information nodes can be organized into "surfaces", which are logical group of items connected together.


"Capture points quickly onto a surface. Organise, and re-organise later.


Create as many surfaces as you need and link them together. Manage large projects with inter-related surfaces. Organise them in the way that makes sense to you."


Surfaces can be shared with selected team members by inviting them via email through the dedicated Share function.


See an introductory video: http://www.mysimplesurface.com/intro 


Start creating your first surface: http://www.mysimplesurface.com/design 


More info: http://www.mysimplesurface.com/ 


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