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Web Conferencing Tools And Technology: A Mini-Guide
Within the realm of this specific research report, for web conferencing tools and services are intended those technologies that provide the end user with the ability to access, within an integrated application, a full set of conferencing and/or collaboration features alongside with the ability to talk, present and demonstrate to an online audience (anything bigger than a group of 5-6 individuals). Photo credit: Andres Rodriguez In the late 1990's, WebEx...
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-June 22, 2007

Collaborative Writing Tools And Technology: A Mini-Guide
Collaborative writing tools are those technologies that facilitate the editing and reviewing of a text document by multiple individuals either in real-time or asynchronously. Online, web-based collaborative writing tools offer great flexibility and usefulness in learning groups and educational settings as they provide an easy mean to generate text exercises, research reports and other writing assignments in a full collaborative fashion. Collaborative writing tools can vary a great deal and...
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-March 1, 2007

Web Presentation Tools And Technologies: A Mini-Guide
Web presentation tools and technologies provide the means to deliver any PowerPoint-based or similar type of visual presentation to an Internet-connected audience, no matter where participants are connecting from. Most web presentation technologies, do away with requiring end users to have an installed copy of Microsoft PowerPoint and increasingly offer not just the ability to digitally distribute such presentations but also of creating them. Photo credit: Teamslide Until recently, sharing...
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-January 25, 2007

Mobile Instant Messaging Applications: The Best Of Kolabora Picks
Mobile instant messaging applications are those ones that allow internet users to access their favorite IM networks from their mobile phones and stay connected with their desktop computers while on the move. Photo credit: Windows Live Mobile Mobile instant messaging applications are going to play a great role in the future, due to the diffusion of WiFi-based mobile devices. With such mobile applications we are now capable of accessing the...
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-January 11, 2007

Screen Sharing And Live Annotation Make A Step Forward: Vyew 2.0 Pre-Release - Video
Vyew recently delivered a pre-release of Vyew 2.0, the upcoming version of the popular web-based screen sharing and live annotation tool. We already talked about this innovative free service in another article published by Robin Good, in which he explored all the possible uses of Vyew. Now we want to show you this pre-release, which unveils a lot of interesting new things. The pre-release of Vyew 2.0 confirms the cutting-edge...
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-September 21, 2006

Group Messaging Platform Connects Mobile Phones And Internet: Swarmteams - Video
Swarmteams Ltd has released Swarm-it! and Swarm-Pro, two brand new services which allow groups of people to send and receive messages across web, email, instant messaging, mobile SMS and RSS. These services enable multi-channel mobile group messaging to anyone with a mobile phone or internet connection, no matter where they are located. Swarm-it! and Swarm-Pro in fact work globally and with different mobile operators. Swarm-it! and Swarm-Pro also support direct...
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-September 14, 2006

Open-Source Conferencing Platform With Integrated Screen Sharing, Video And VoIP: DimDim - Video
DimDim released today a new version of its web conferencing tool that enables you to organize online meetings and allows you to show presentation and share documents in real-time. DimDim features instant screen sharing/application sharing from the presenter's computer. A whiteboard with annotation capabilities is also available in its interface. Other important new features are the integrated VoIP and video communication, which enable the presenter to broadcast himself and talk...
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-September 6, 2006

Online Collaboration Tools And Resources: Kolabora Picks n.15
Photo credit: Slavoljub Petrovic eBuddy: chat with your MSN, AOL and Yahoo buddies via your web browser PeerMe: voice chat interactively, send and receive instant messages, and transfer files over the Internet Blobber: see how many other visitors are on a web site and to chat with them Kiko: shared calendar integrates with your IM and mobile Posticky: leave online notes that you can send to your mobile phone...
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-September 4, 2006

Online Powerpoint Presentation Tools - Best of Class: June 2005
To effectively deliver a PowerPoint presentation or screen recording on the Web, the traditional means of converting individual slides to GIF and JPG image files is not effective anymore. It is cumbersome, it takes time, it forces you into a fixed screen resolution, it pushes accepting compromises in image quality when you have presentations containing both simple diagrams and photographs, it creates large files that are slow to download, and...
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-June 23, 2005

Screen Sharing Tools For The Rest Of Us: Affordable And Easy-To-Use
If you want to show your computer screen, a presentation or a set of documents to someone connected to the Internet who lives across the ocean, you need to use a "screen sharing" software or online service. Photo credit: Ijansempoi Ronen While most popular web conferencing systems like WebEx, Microsoft Live Meeting, Centra, Genesys do offer screen sharing as part of their standard feature set, you do not need to...
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-May 27, 2005