Vyew looks to monetize; Pro and Plus releases coming

By Vivek | February 15th, 2007 at 07:54 pm ET         

Seems like a graduation season for number of startups that sprung up in the collaboration space last year. Vyew is the latest to join the ranks. The web-based collaboration and live conferencing platform will finally  be emerging from its beta on 20th of this month with the launch of its new 2.1 release. Vyew will also be introducing new monetization plans going forward while maintaining a free ad-supported version. Teams and users will be able to subscribe to the Vyew Plus for $6.95/month or Vyew Professional for $13.95/month.

From the last time I checked few months back, Vyew has transformed quite a bit. Vyew collaboration platform has 2 aspects to it sharing feature. One of them operates in pretty much the same way as a typical conference you can have over WebEx. Other aspect is to run your webmeeting through ViewBooks, where you can upload your documents during the meeting to be made viewable to other participants. This combined with the ability to create multiple ViewBooks to reuse over different sessions can definitely cut down on your meeting preparation time. Drawing tools, plugins, chat, file storage, and conference calling number gives Vyew a feeling of easy to use comprehensive mashup board. In my opinion Vyew adds a fresh outlook to otherwise a very crowded webmeeting market. 

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