Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Vyew. Share your view.

This is probably one of the coolest finds that I've found in awhile. Vyew. Share your view. Vyew is a browser-based conferencing and collaboration tool. They allow you to share viewing of presentations (PowerPoint), files (any you can think of) and even your desktop. You can share a whiteboard and chat. They even provide a phone conferencing number (beware of long distance charges, they don't offer a 1800 number). The best part about vyew is that they're free and always will be free (according to them).

Here are some useful things that you can use vyew for:
  • Share an Office document (PowerPoint slides, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, etc.)
  • Look and talk about a map (going on a trip?)
  • Load photos from your favorite photo site (ex flikr)
  • Shared Google search
  • Share your desktop
  • Help troubleshoot/train a friend or family member
It's all so cool!!

Update: I just found out that vyew meetings are persistent. Meaning that all your meeting stuff will stay long after your meeting is over. So if you need to review or update your meeting stuff, you can.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Cody,

Thank you for your recent post on Vyew.com. We are going to release version 2.0 for Vyew in mid-July.

This new release has some unique and very useful new features. For example, it can support multiple VyewBooks. These VyewBooks can be divided by customers, projects, interest, and more can be saved and open. Additionally, you can now mix an match pages from various file types or layered them together inside the same VyewPage which makes Vyew even more powerful in a collaborative environment.

We can provide you a sneak preview of this new version should you be interested. Please email me and I will forward the URL to you.


Sincerely,


Reza Gosal