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Robin Good's insight:
Meet.fm is an outstanding new web conferencing app that provides permanent cloud-based meeting rooms and which supports video, audio-conferencing and VoIP, scree-sharing, co-browsing, file sharing, and more. From the same guys that originally brought you YouDazzle.com, here is a new web conferencing app that really shines in terms of design, ease of use and functionalities offered. Meet.fm can be used both as a collaborative platform, where every participant can engage, talk and contribute to the session, as well as a webinar-like tool, where there is essentially one presenter guiding the overall attendee experience. The Meet.fm interface can be personalized with your custom colors and logo and you have the opportunity to tap into most of the major cloud services, directly from Meet.fm. Right now Box.net, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Evernote are all supported. You can upload any file you have sitting on those services and share it or present it immediately to your Meet.fm attendees. Meet.fm offers a free plan that allows for about eight hours/monthly of one permanent fully-featured 1GB collaboration room for a max of 3 people. Piad plans allow for unlimited time, rooms and for 500+ participants and 100GB of storage (at $199/mo top plan). Pricing: https://meet.fm/our_pricing Try it out now: https://meet.fm/ 
Georgina Lester's curator insight,
March 7, 2013 12:03 PM
How could this help you in a connected world to innovate in your own business? 
Dolly Bhasin 's curator insight,
March 16, 2013 11:45 PM
Looks good, should try to see how it compares with other products!
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Simple, collaborative screen sharing. You each get your own mouse, and you're both always in control.
Robin Good's insight:
ScreenHero, which I have reviewed and announced back in December, is a downloadable app which allows anyone to collaboratively screen-share any application and to work together simultaneously on it with others. Today ScreenHero has released a Windows version of its free app which is immediately available for download here: http://screenhero.com/#download From the official site: "You each get your own mouse pointer, and you're both always in control. It's designed for collaboration, not just broadcasting your screen." From the original article on BetaKit: "The team calls Screenhero “Google Docs for any application.” After downloading the app, signing up, and adding team members or friends, users can either share their entire screen or one individual window. Once a contact has agreed to view the screenshare, both participants get their own mouse pointer and similar to Google Docs, can simultaneously edit and work on projects. ... The company said their platform is ideal for developers who are programming together or reviewing code, companies who want to review designs or mockups together, or marketers giving product demos. The basic account is free, and soon users will be able to pay either $5 per month for an individual pro account, or $49 per month for a pro team account, which will add additional features like support and enterprise integration. The app also lets users chat using Screenhero’s internal chat feature, currently via text but the company said it plans to add audio chat as well, which is a crucial feature since right now most users who want to chat while they’re working together have to use Skype in conjunction with Screenhero." Source: http://betakit.com/2013/03/05/screenhero-launches-windows-version-of-collaborative-screensharing-app Screenhero lets you screen share any application with anyone, no matter where they are. It's super simple and blazing fast. You each get your own mouse pointer, and you're both always in control. It's designed for collaboration, not just broadcasting your screen. It's like Google Docs for any application on your computer. Free for Mac and Windows. Future pricing: http://screenhero.com/pricing.html Check this video: http://youtu.be/5BOAArc7vfM Try it out now: http://screenhero.com/
Ulrike Grabe's curator insight,
March 7, 2013 3:34 AM
From the website: "Screenhero lets you screen share any application with anyone, no matter where they are. It's super simple and blazing fast. You each get your own mouse pointer, and you're both always in control. It's designed for collaboration, not just broadcasting your screen. It's like Google Docs for any application on your computer. Screenhero is designed to feel like you're sitting next to the person you're working with — even when you're miles away. It's available for both Mac and Windows."
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The possibility of a direct, P2P, device-to-device mobile network is getting closer by the day. That means that in emergency situations you will be able to hook up directly to other individuals own cell phone and to create virtual networks capable of voice and data communication just-in-time. "The Better Approach To Mobile Adhoc Networks (BATMAN) joins smartphones together in an ad-hoc, mesh network, capable of device to device communication. You can share files and even send messages with the right application. A mobile ad hoc network is identical to a wireless ad hoc network with the additional constraint that the devices are constantly on the move (pdf)." ... "Project BATMAN is making Android smartphones capabile of peer-to-peer communications, instead of relying on a centralized cell tower, explains Geek.com and Network World." Source: Dailywireless BATMAN stands for (better approach to mobile ad-hoc networking) and it is a routing protocol for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks "The BATMAN routing protocol, under development by the Freifunk community, could potentially be integrated into Smart Phone Ad-hoc Network (SPAN), created by Josh Thomas and Jeff Robble. Shortly after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, these two came to the conclusion that there needed to be a way for emergency crews to communicate not only with one another but with local volunteers as well. Smartphones function as their own dedicated mesh network, adding and removing users on the fly. As long as you are within range of the mesh network, you’ll have the ability to call any of the users on the network through VOIP. The catch is each user would need to do is stay in range, which is about 100ft, from the next member of the mesh network." More info: http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki Full article: http://www.dailywireless.org/2013/02/14/cellphones-get-direct-device-to-device-communications/ (Thanks to Sepp Hasslberger for finding this gem)
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Rabbit is a new downloadable software app (for Mac only now) that allows you to instant message, video conference with multiple parties and to screencast and share in real-time any music, video clip or app.
But the best way to describe it is a cool and very modern implementation of instant messaging. Source: MacRumors Features: http://www.rabb.it/features.html Help: http://help.rabb.it/rabbit More info / Sign-up for Beta: http://rabb.it
Andreas Wåhlström's curator insight,
February 18, 2013 3:23 PM
Underbart Mac - program! Revolutionerande?
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WriteURL is a web-based online collaborative rich text editor that can operate in any language. Texts can be formatted with traditionall styles, font choices, font size, line spacing and more. Write URL provides extra security via encryption, it saves and records all of your edits, and it can work also when you are offline. "Sharing is as simple as emailing a URL. Collaborators get the write URL, live readers get the read URL. You can always publish a snapshot of the document as a web page with a publish URL." It is also possible to integrate links and images. Free to use. No registration required. Try it out now: http://www.writeurl.com/
Anita Rissler's curator insight,
January 31, 2013 4:45 PM
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Winners Education's curator insight,
February 13, 2013 6:31 AM
Google docs also offers another great variety of collaborative tool....
Pasi Salminen's curator insight,
July 3, 2014 2:24 AM
WriteUrl mahdollistaa dokumenttien muokkaamisen ryhmätyönä ilman kirjautumista
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If you are looking for a free or low-cost video-conferencing tool you may want to check this fresh new review of seven different technologies that you can use to video conference online. The tools reviewed include: - Cisco WebEX - Citrix GoToMeeting - Adobe Connect Pro - Brother OmniJoin - Google Hangouts
Full article: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9234680/7_low_cost_videoconferencing_services_Which_is_best_for_your_meeting_
Jim Lerman's curator insight,
December 21, 2012 2:08 AM
When it comes to tools, Robin Good is one of the best sources of information. 
LLatipi's curator insight,
December 21, 2012 4:55 AM
Great tools for real-time online communication. 
Kathie Nelson's curator insight,
February 27, 2013 11:34 AM
The world of online meetings is changing. Get the latest review of the top 7 tools here. Thanks, @Barbara Saunders
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Robin Good's insight:
FuzeBox is a new, Mac-native app which allows you to visually collaborate with your team by screen-sharing, video-conferencing or by presenting video, images or slideshows.
Live annotations, high-quality zooming and multi-party HD 720p videoconferencing for up to 5 simultaneous feeds are also part of the powerful Fuzebox feature set, which is also capable of full event recording (including participants feeds) in a standard video format like .MP4. Try it out here: https://www.fuzebox.com/
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Robin Good: BigMarker is a web-based team collaboration and videoconferencing service which allows real-time web presentations, audio conferencing, project management and file sharing tools. BigMarker supports PowerPoints, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, or image files and once uploaded converts them all to PDFs. BigMarker has a potential capacity of up to 100 participants in a video event and all live meetings can also be recorded. Pro Communities, available only for paid accounts, enable you to host public or private conferences, discussions,and files, manage projects and tasks, and organize into sub-Communities. Free version available. Pricing: https://www.bigmarker.com/pricing Try it out now: https://www.bigmarker.com/
Andy Papier's comment,
November 26, 2012 7:26 PM
I just wanted to let everyone know that for a limited time (until the end of the year), the paid pro communities are free for life if you start a community.
TonyaPriceConsulting's curator insight,
March 21, 2013 9:27 AM
Definitely worth checking out if you are doing remote Web Project Management or use telecommuters! I'm thinking of using it for TonyaPrice.com online classes.
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Robin Good: Meetingl is a free video conferencing tool that allows you to meet, talk and chat with up to eight people without having to download, install or configure any software. Fully browser-based Meetingl works across PCs, Macs and mobile devices, and it is as simple to use as it gets. To start a session you simply click on "New Room" and instantly you are placed in a uniquely numbered room where you can invite your guests. You can share the URL of the meeting room by clicking on the "room number" that will appear on the lower left part of your interface. Free to use. Try it out now: http://meetingl.com/
Paula Correia's curator insight,
April 29, 2013 2:54 PM
"Meetingl" é uma ferramenta gratuita de conferência de vídeo que permite conversar com até oito pessoas, sem ter que instalar ou configurar qualquer software.
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Robin Good: GroupMap is a visual mapping tool that allows groups of people to collaboratively work around specific ideas, problems or issues. Instead of offering a generic mindmapping tool and letting users find their application for it, GroupMap has been designed with a specific application in mind, providing much greater value to those interested in improving decision-making processes, creative brainstorming and idea-generating sessions . "GroupMap shows you what the group is thinking by combining the views and ideas of individual participants." The free version allows up to five contributors per map. Applications and uses: http://www.groupmap.us/solutions/ Tour: http://www.groupmap.us/tour More info: http://www.groupmap.us
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Robin Good: Network World has published an interesting and valuable report comparing eight different web-based web conferencing services. Their selection of conferencing tools to compare includes Adobe Connect, Cisco Webex, Citrix GotoMeeting, InterCall Unifed Meeting (in beta with v5), LogMeIn Join.Me Pro, Microsoft Lync 2013 (in beta, and part of Office 365), Skype Premium (now owned by Microsoft), and Vyew.com Professional. Full article (requires registration): http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2012/102212-desktop-videoconferencing-test-263197.html Testing methodology: http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/439694/how_we_tested_web-based_conferencing_services/?fp=4&fpid=18
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Robin Good: ClickWebinar is a powerful and cost-effective web-based webinar delivery platform that integrates all standard webconferencing and online collaboration features including: - Videoconferencing - VoIP - Screen-sharing - Text chat with integrated simultaneous translation facility - Session recording - White label rebranding - Polling - Statistics and reporting - Mobile app - Facebook app
More features info: http://www.clickwebinar.com/features Free 30-day trial with no need for a credit card. Plans start at 40€/month for unlimited meetings and up to 50 attendees per meeting and go all the way up to 280€ for up to 1000 attendees per meeting. On paper Clickwebinar presents itself as a valid alternative to the leader in this sector, Citrix GoToWebinar. Full pricing info: http://www.clickwebinar.com/pricing.html More info: http://www.clickwebinar.com/
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Communicate and connect effortlessly with a robust web-conferencing solution complete with feature-rich collaboration tools.
Robin Good's insight:
Momentum, a hosted PBX provider, has just made available a new enterprise-grade web conferencing platform called Momentum Meeting. The browser-based Java-enabled web collaboration solution integrates whiteboard, text chat, screen-sharing, audio, video and presentation tools for meeting sessions with up to 250 attendees. businesses are adopting every year. ■ Synchronized Browsing and Screen Share ■ Session recording
Plans start at $24.95/Month Product tour: http://www.gomomentum.com/services_producttour.html
N.B.: I have not been able to find detailed info about what other plans are available and what do they specifically offer.
ghbrett's curator insight,
March 20, 2013 4:32 PM
Once again Robin Good gives us good insight to this scoop. Check out his comment below. Thanks once again, Robin. 
Dana Jaffe's comment,
April 4, 2013 1:33 PM
Hi all. My name is Dana and I am a part of the Momentum team. Below is a link to our Web Conferencing service page, and if you scroll down you will see a chart highlighting the different plans available. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask me or call 877.251.5554. http://www.gomomentum.com/services_webconferencing.html
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CamDip is a free web app which allows you to videoconference with anyone easily without the need to download any software or plugin. CamDip is not particularly sophisticated in its user interface, but it does offer the basics to video conference and text chat without requiring any complex setup. CampDip allows you to easily create a meeting room and then to share its URL with the people you want to invite. Free to use. Video tutorials: http://www.youtube.com/user/CamDipChat Try it out now: http://camdip.com/
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If you are looking for a good and safe alternative to Drobox or Box.net here is one: Owncloud is an open source software which you can install on your own web server and which provides you not only with full file storage and sharing capabilties, but also with the ability to connect directly to other file storage services and to run HTML5 apps. Excerpted from the Techcrunch review: "OwnCloud is a free software suite, written in PHP, that provides file storage, synchronization, and sharing. It provides the same basic features of Dropbox or Box.net." "The core ownCloud offering is file storage and synchronization. You also get optional contacts and calendar synchronization, if you want to use it. As an open source application, you can install it on any computer you control. This means you know how and where your data is stored, something which existing hosted solutions abstract away from you. Individuals and enterprises can install ownCloud on their own hardware, and define access policies according to their own needs." "...the ownCloud mobile client can automatically upload pictures taken from your phone." "...ownCloud can be connected to third-party storage like Dropbox or Google Drive or even an FTP server. These are read-write connections, allowing you to use third-party storage in whatever ways make sense for you..." "...ownCloud supports HTML5 applications, allowing you to add all sorts of additional functionality. The ownCloud app catalog has dozens of apps." (Source: Techcrunch) Overview: https://owncloud.com/owncloud-overview Download and subscriptions: https://owncloud.com/owncloud-subscriptions Find out more: https://owncloud.com/
ghbrett's curator insight,
February 28, 2013 4:14 PM
This is a solution that makes a lot of sense to me. Keeping the curation and management of content locally will allow personal and enterprise installations to share content among their community.
Be sure to read @RobinGoods' comments below that are much more detailed than mine.
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Robin Good's insight:
ScreenHero is a new downloadable Mac app (soon for Windows too) which allows you to easily share any app you have installed on your computer with one or more people, who can work on it simultaneously with you. Key basic features:
Advanced features (for paid plans)
From the official site: "Screenhero lets you screen share any application with anyone, no matter where they are. It's super simple and blazing fast. You each get your own mouse pointer, and you're both always in control. It's designed for collaboration, not just broadcasting your screen. It's like Google Docs for any application on your computer. " A Windows version is coming soon and you can sign up to be notified when it will be available. Free version available. Download ScreenHero (Mac): http://dl.screenhero.com/update/screenhero/Screenhero.dmg (23.4 MB) Pricing: http://screenhero.com/pricing.html More info: http://screenhero.com/ (Thank to Ana Cristina Pratas for first discovering it)
Lauren Kelly's curator insight,
February 20, 2013 12:50 AM
We read Robin Good last week and he's a trustworthy source--he scooped this piece on collaborative screen sharing which seems very pertinent to the topic of online collaboration. Screen sharing is also something we haven't talked about a lot and that I would like to explore more.
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Robin Good's insight:
WebRTC, the real-time collaboration and conferencing protocol is getting better and better by the day. With it, and without the need to install any plug-in, software or downloadable extension, browsers like Chrome and Firefox which fully support it, can initiate real-time video conferences just like this one.
"Google and Mozilla are working with the W3C and IETF to develop WebRTC, and although it is still work in progress, the applications that are being developed to demonstrate its capabilities show that WebRTC can mean an end to having to download plugins and add-ons."
ghbrett's curator insight,
February 9, 2013 3:14 PM
See Robin Good's Comments below. Always well thought out and better than what I could say about this post.
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Robin Good's insight:
RealTimeBoard is a new web service which allows you to easily create collaborative visual boards with images and documents uploaded from your computer or grabbed from the web. Free to use. Try it out now here: realtimeboard.com/app/#/7RIUTYPQRLJ Video tutorials: http://realtimeboard.com/tour/ More info: http://realtimeboard.com/
Minna Kilpeläinen's curator insight,
January 26, 2013 5:49 PM
Watch the tutorial! This Collaborative Visual Board seems to be a great tool for virtual and face-to-face classrooms and meetings. Really worth trying.
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Lauren Kelly's curator insight,
February 20, 2013 12:54 AM
This is another interesting platform that allows for visual collaboration. These sorts of posts make me want to narrow down my topic to just online visual collaboration and information sharing!
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Reflap is a new web app which allows you to start a group video chat for up to five people without requiring them to download, install or register anything. Reflap offer three modes of use ranging from "Quick Call" for one-to-one calls to "Kickbacks" for small videoconferences and to "Bouncing" which allows you to randomly meet and video chat with other people. You can also text chat and grab screen-shots during your Reflap sessions. Free to use. FAQ: http://www.reflap.com/faq About: http://www.reflap.com/about
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Robin Good: Streamago is a live video streaming platform which allows anyone with an HD camcorder or a simple webcam to start video broadcasting directly on the web with the minimum fuss and at zero cost. Streamago works also from smartphones and tablets, and it provides some fine controls to set the quality and resolution of your broadcast, as well as to add your brand name, tagline, or a RSS news ticker on top of your live streaming image. Streamago provides you with unlimited channels you can use, storage of 20GB and SD video encoding quality. Streamago can also stream directly to your Facebook profile page and can record, if you want, each one of your live video streams. Free version available (ad supported). The premium version provides access to higher quality video encoding (up to 1.7Mbps), video scheduling/playlist, white labeling, extra storage and custom support and stats at 39.30eu/month. N.B.: With the scheduling/playlist of the Premium version you can create a 24/7 professional TV schedule by assembling live transmissions, pre-registered videos or uploaded contents. Premium features: http://www.streamago.tv/premium/plans.html App store mobile version: http://itunes.apple.com/it/app/streamago/id433402336?mt=8 Try it out now: http://www.streamago.tv/ (Thanks to Fabrizio Pucci for bringing it to my attention)
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Robin Good: The New Wii U gaming platform now integrates some powerful videoconferencing capabilities allowing one-to-one quality videoconferencing between any two Wii users. Telepresenceoptions writes about it: "...The new Wii U has Vidyo-powered videoconferencing capabilities. The video above illustrates how this has been integrated into Wii U Chat. No complicated explanation needed, you can simply use your Wii U to make video calls to other Wii U devices. Today it supports point to point (or Mii to Mii) calls, but multipoint and mobile support are in the works. " Source: http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/2012/11/the_new_nintendo_wii_u_support/ Wii-U Features: http://www.nintendo.com/wiiu/features/ Find out more: http://www.nintendo.com/wiiu
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Robin Good: The Collective Action Toolkit is a downloadable PDF guide, that has been designed to help individuals living in third world communities, where it is much more difficult to form spontaneous groups that tackle specific problems, to learn techniques and methods that can aid them to get together and take action on specific issues. "Want to figure out a way to help people in your community eat healthier? Have an idea for a small business?" "This 72-page booklet that seeks to develop a universal framework for people of all ages and cultural backgrounds to tackle big problems in their communities. Developed over the past year, the CAT contains nary a mention of design (or brainstorming). Instead, it relies on a simple vocabulary to describe skills like building a team, carrying out research, and developing solutions." The CAT manual provides a number of illustrated templates, examples and tips to get any collaborative action idea off the ground. Download the PDF guide here: http://www.frogdesign.com/collective-action-toolkit
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Robin Good: Ve.rbatim.com is a free web-based co-browsing tool which allows you to co-navigate with one or more people any web page, while being able to see the mouse cursor of your partner when desired. The web app is very easy to use. You just click on "Start a sesson" on this page http://ve.rbatim.com/ and the new page that opens up has a URL that you can share with anyone you want to cobrowse with. On this page you have an additional address bar in which you can input any url you want to cobrowse. An integrated text chat area is made visible by clicking on the large down arrow visibile on the top right side of your screen. Free to use. Check this video: http://youtu.be/XgeTWHSjhTQ Google Chrome Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mjiigdnknfcmjgaapnimjbmopdfbkech Try it out now: http://ve.rbatim.com/
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Robin Good: VideoMeet is a web-based service that allows anyone to host videoconferencing sessions in which can participate users of different legacy videoconferencing platforms such as Polycom, Tandberg, Cisco, MS Lync, Lifesize, Radvision and H323 systems as well as users of web-based tools such as Skype and Google Video Chat. From desktop PCs down to smartphones and tablets VideoMeet supports all kinds of devices and videoconferencing services. Minimum requirements are a resolution of at least 352 x 288 pixels and an Internet connection with a minimum of 384 kbit/s. Here is a comprehensive list of all the audio and video codecs supported by VideoMeet: http://o7.no/Sac5wW FAQ: https://www.videomeet.co.uk/Help---Service/ Free 14-day trial available here: https://www.videomeet.co.uk/Test-access/ For pricing info call: +49 (0) 228 / 181 22383 More info: https://www.videomeet.co.uk/More-information/ Home page: https://www.videomeet.co.uk/Homepage/
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OmniJoin is a professional web conferencing app integrating high quality HD video conferencing as well as all of the standard features of a full-service web conferencing platform.
Key features of OmniJoin include:
Paid plans start at £29/mo (30 attendees and 720p HD video conferencing) for OmniJoin and go up to £59/mo for the Pro version which allows for up to 50 users and 1080p HD video.
The Pro version also integrates full support for HD and SD professional Pan-Tilt-Zoom cameras, for video capture cards and the ability to send out customisable emails for meeting invites.
Free 30-day trial available.
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