Remote meeting app Fuze is decent but incomplete
September 19, 2008 | Author: Adam Levine
There's a new WebEx competitor hitting the market: CallWave's Fuze. Its advantages: No download required on either the viewing or the presenting side. It works with video and allows markup of video frames. And it has some nice call-handling features. I used the tool briefly and although I found some bugs and performance issues in this early version, I like the design and found it simple to use. You can upload documents to share (images, text files, PowerPoint presentations, even videos), and once you're sharing them, use simple drawing tools to mark them up and illustrate points. On the shared video player, you can sketch over the top of a paused video, and the sketches stay attached to the particular frame; you can see which frames have markups by little icons on the player's progress bar. On the downside, you can't (yet) use Fuze for screen or
application sharing, since that would require a software install on the
sender's side. The company is working on that, although the people I
talked to there want to push the "no download required" pitch as long
as they can, which explains the delay.
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