It was just last week I had written that the top enterprise web-conferencing service providers should offer some kind of free access to entry level users. Unyte seems to be filling up that gap very well with its free offering of Skype integrated conference calling and full desktop sharing for 1:1 meetings.
Now web-conferencing industry leader WebEx has announced a plugin for Yahoo IM that lets 2 users “co-browse” and view websites for free. The plugin which is available for download in the Yahoo plugin directory works with the latest version of the IM(8.1). Any time you want to share a page with your chat buddy, you can bring up the WebEx plugin from the chat window and start sharing the URL you want to. The plugin also enables control sharing between the users and annotation on the webpages.
As the plugin clearly states you can only “co-browse” only the active web pages at a given time, which means no desktop application sharing. I don’t see the motivation for users to go for WebEx “co-browse” plugin, when they have the option to share any application using Unyte with practically the same screen refresh rates and more features. Still it is nice to know that recent changes in the web-conferencing space have not gone unnoticed. Expecting more freemium offers from Gotomeeting and likes.
Links:
WebEx Plugin for Yahoo IM
December 19, 2006 at 12:15 am |
Unyte launched its own integration with Yahoo IM: http://us.gallery.yahoo.com/apps/4445
Looks pretty good.
December 19, 2006 at 4:01 pm |
[...] Last week I had written about WebEx launching its plugin for Yahoo IM and previously written about the emerging developments in webconferencing. Now Unyte has quickly come up with its own plugin for Yahoo IM that beats the WebEx plugin hands-down. [...]
January 24, 2008 at 6:16 pm |
hi good days to you..