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Surfly's co-browsing technology

22 pointsby Jenny2017about 8 years ago

4 comments

javajoshabout 8 years ago
Yeah, founded a startup based on this idea in 2006 or so, called WeBrowse. The technology wasn&#x27;t quite ready although I got pretty far with a prototype based on DOMMutationListener and XHR.<p>Pretty clearly something like this needs to exist, and it will probably not be nearly as useful as it&#x27;s inventors think it will be. Screen-sharing is more general, and the niche for low-entropy real-time synchronization of browser state <i>feels</i> pretty small right now. But who knows? Heck, I thought the iPad was going to be a giant flop.
johanschabout 8 years ago
Cool! I do agree this concept is under-utilized. Best of luck!<p>(Heads up: if you shall ever venture to patent this tech, I think I&#x27;ll be able to present compelling prior art from like 1996. This was also a proxy-based re-writing mechanism for co-browsing and from your description it does sound kinda similar. It also happened to use HTML frames.)
egfxabout 8 years ago
Mozilla together js did this a while back.. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;togetherjs.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;togetherjs.com</a>
shanemhansenabout 8 years ago
I remember customer support doing co-browsing back in 2008. Hopefully the mechanisms have gotten a little less hacky over the years.
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