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While most people have yet not realized that even with modest computer equipment and a dial-up connection, talking with your live voice over the Internet has become a true reality, accessible to anyone and fully able to replace your telephone in a number of useful ways, software-based videoconferencing tools have made great strides in the last 12 months and an undisputed elite of cutting edge technologies is making the rounds of technical reviewers for the jaw-dropping response it generates.

Why do users need to leave any "core" application and open up a new tool to do Web conferencing? Isn't it more natural for you to go to the Edit menu and say: "Share with - Jim Lellis"?

Seven questions to explore potential, opportunities and threats of our future online. Here is the second interview about the future Web conferencing though this really represents an appetizer for a second set of interviews to start in December and focussing specifically on the future of online collaboration, beyond the limits and borders dictated by what traditionally Web conferencing has come to mean.

Treacy's and Dobrin's article is quite useful reading when you are planning to collaborate with another organization. It offers case studies to sensitise you for possible strategic mistakes and frameworks to support you in developing a tailored collaboration plan. Treacy and Dobrin analyse miscarried collaboration projects and identify strategic mistakes made by companies during the "first-wave" of collaboration. They claim that ...