Today’s stuff (for me at least) consisted of briefly looking at the functionality of some more advanced overlays that run on top of Skype. It’s all very early in the ballgame but you can never be too early to develop these type of interfaces. I am explicitely not reading any documentation or reading the projected “what can this do for you” on the website of the authors. I just look at how it is behaving now and what it gives as an end-user. The marketing stuff and product specifications you can find online. These are also not extensive reports like you find on beta-tester-forums.
For example www.unyte.com, which shares certain of your windows/applications to external parties on Skype. Works well, but the interface is a bit rough. No starting and ending point is there. It also misses the feature to tell me when the other side sees what I see and the sound breaks up when explaining the given window. Looks quite simple and nice for the rest. Very light to install but not so many features. Then again, I don’t need so much also. I think www.gotomypc.com and www.logmein.com can provide this functionality too. It is nice that unyte.com is integrated with Skype. Okay. But it is slow which relates more to the RAM-limitation and bandwidth issue. First “verdict” : no too bad. I like it.
Second thing I started to look at is www.verosee.com, very nice way of introducing their package, these guys. I got a www.plaxo.com request. I accepted (that is a social networking tool) or was it www.linkedin.com ? (more oriented towards professional networking). Anyways the Verosee software looks already very advanced. It’s kind of heavy chunk to download but the concept is nice. Looks a bit like basic projectmanagement that uses workspaces. More exploration will follow later. Playing wit the tool now. First “verdict” : very good. I like it more.
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