Web Conferencing - Apps Rating

SeeToo is a web-based application that allows individuals to invite co-workers or clients to watch home videos with them in real time and talk via chat.

Upload your document and invite your friends to view it with you. It works with most major file types including PDFs, Word docs, PowerPoint presentations, and text files, and displays them in a simple Flash-based viewer and editor.

Free screen broadcasting software. Provides optional audio streaming

Elluminate vRoom is the scaled down version of a popular cross platform live web conferencing tool that provides e-learning solutions for the real-time organization. Elluminate vRoom integrates VoIP, easy-to-use moderator tools and provides support for collaborative web touring.

RealVNC is a UK company founded in 2002 by a team from the world-leading AT&T Laboratories in Cambridge. The company was established to commercially develop, enhance and promote VNC, the innovative remote access software with a widespread international user base. VNC (Virtual Network Computing) software is cross-platform, allowing remote control between different types of computer. For ultimate simplicity, there is even a Java viewer, so that any desktop can be controlled remotely from within a browser without having to install software. VNC is free and is redistributable.

Groupboard is a set of multi-user java applets including whiteboard, chat, message board, games and voice conferencing which you can place on your web page by simply copying a few lines of HTML code. You can also run Groupboard on your own web server. It can be used for tutoring, distance learning, training, or simply for fun! With the whiteboard you can upload background gif/jpeg images and draw on top of them, and all of the users connected to the board will see the changes in real-time.

Microsoft SharedView is a remote desktop and internet collaboration application for screen sharing, group chats and sharing documents with multiple people in real time. The program is free but no longer supported by Microsoft

Persony (pronounced: per-so-nee) is a Flash-based web conferencing tool that allows you to screen share, deliver PowerPoint presentations, work on a shared whiteboard and communicate via VoIP (one-to-many) in a very cost-effective integrated solution.

Beamyourscreen is a simple web-based screen-sharing solution that works like Glance, HostPresentation or PCvisit. You provide a standard URL and a code number to your attendees and once they log in at that web page they can immediately see your screen. Beamyourscreen supports up to 20 guests per session, who need not to install any software or plug-in. Beamyourscreen also uses proprietary encryption to protect all data transfers. $59/month.

The e-Boardroom meeting suite gives you the power to hold worldwide meetings, on demand. Your meeting suite is available to you 24 hours a day without reservations or per use fees. Connect up to six users anywhere in the world with real time webcam video feeds. The e-Boardroom system runs on virtually any operating system and any browser without the need for special hardware or software.