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Screen-sharing is caring

Whether you're looking for an easy solution to fix a relatives' computer half the world away, or you need to collaborate with a colleague for your latest project, there are several strong screen-sharing programs that can meet your needs.

First off is a familiar name: Skype. The latest beta of the world-famous VoIP app supports screen-sharing, and if you've ever been in a Internet cafe, you know that this could be a big deal. Skype is already heavily used in a multitude of countries to connect friends, family, and business partners via voice and text. Screen-sharing would simply … Read more

Yuuguu goes with IM

Yuuguu's approach to screen-sharing goes straight through your instant messaging clients, although they're not required to run the program. It's a multiprotocol messaging program that supports the biggest IM services--Yahoo, MSN, Google, AIM, ICQ, and Skype--in the hopes that rolling the services into one package will appeal to resource-conscience users.

When you want to initiate a sharing session, you click on the users' name and share the provided code. As with its competitors, both sides must agree to the share before it can begin. Unfortunately, Yuuguu doesn't support file-sharing, although you can transfer files via IM. … Read more

Yuuguu's Web collaboration tool moves to Flash

Liverpool-based screen sharing and collaboration app Yuuguu this week put out an important update that solves one of the service's biggest hurdles--the need for software. The new model requires only the host to have the special Yuuguu software on his or her machine while the other 29 users can watch and interact using nothing more than Adobe Flash.

The news comes just a week and a half after the launch of a Linux version of the product, which runs just like it does on Windows and Mac machines. In either case the system sets up a special chat room … Read more

More ways to stick it to Webex: DimDim and Yuuguu

I don't like Webex's web conferencing product. Nor GoToMeeting's. I get invited to online demos using these tools all the time and I find both products resource hogs that are slow to get going, and that make it hard for me to take notes on my PC while watching a presentation. But what really bugs me is that I know the people who invite me to these demos are paying big money for these apps. They shouldn't have to. Screen sharing and conferencing is becoming a commodity feature. See all these stories for examples.

There are … Read more