I remember the PowWow McAfee founded that did collaborative web browsing.…<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowWow_(chat_program)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowWow_(chat_program)</a>
Hey all! I'm one of the co-founders of PowWow. This has caught us all by surprise, but we're thrilled to see the response we've been getting so far. If you guys run into any issues, please let us know. We're in very early beta right now, so your feedback is very important. Feel free to reply in the comments here, or email us at everyone@powwow.cc. Happy PowWow-ing :)
This is super slick. Just played around with it with a friend and there's almost no lag. My CPU spun up quite a bit but nevertheless color me impressed. I'm curious how this is implemented though?
Interesting on how no replies have been received on how it works. Mind it, I have not installed it, but, is there a server(s) to connect to, is it peer-to-peer? Care to provide more details? Thanks!
Looks nice! I wish it gives support for Linux as well. Good screen sharing tools for Linux are virtually non-existent (and I am often ridiculed for it).
You know, you probably could have chosen a better name. If for nothing else you are competing on searches with all of the actual Pow Wow websites that tribes and dancers have set up to catalog their events.
> It's like Google Docs for any application<p>Isn't this a bit too misleading? The appeal of Google Docs is that two people can work on a spreadsheet at the same time. They can be working on different cells or even different sheets of a workbook. PowWow allows one person to work on a spreadsheet at a time but allows you to quickly and seamlessly switch who is working on it. In other words, only one person can type.
Looks great! The two-cursor feature would also be extremely useful when two mice are connected to one computer. We do pair programming at work and I could see a tool that allows two people sitting at one machine to each have their own cursor totally transforming the way we work. Is this a feature you plan on developing?
Are you guys aware of powwownow? it's has voice/video conferencing. Although not exactly like your product, it does share some similarities.<p><a href="http://www.powwownow.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.powwownow.co.uk/</a>
I've been using powwow since early development days. It is a great product, been useful to me many many times. it is good to fix your mom's computer or to help your peer programmer across the sea.
Looks great. There's a UK company with similar branding doing conference calling (they advertise all over the tube with really terrible posters). Called PowWowNow.
Really like the concept and the product feels great. I'm curious as to why voice chat was not included though. Is that planned in an upcoming release, because it seems like a pretty big setback. You may not be fighting over a single cursor anymore, but you're still fighting for control, and it's hard to coordinate that without talking to one another. I don't want to have to use up additional resources by entering a Skype chat either.
Does this differ from Goinstant (<a href="http://www.goinstant.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.goinstant.com/</a> )? It was aquired by Salesforce in July 2012 for $70MM.
mixergy has a great interview with the founder talking about hitting $1M+/year for the product that started it all (ios), and a phd's journey from pakistan to the bay area.<p>just search for "iteleport mixergy interview"<p>very inspiring story. congrats to J & team.<p>~B