8 posts tagged “online meetings”

With gas prices at an all time high, it's no surprise that more people are waking up to the benefits of online meetings  and web conferencing. Just look at year of year growth of traffic for top players Webex and GoToMeeting. Now... see below...

Given the number of smaller players and level of hyper competition in the web conferencing space, it's interesting to observe how these small players are growing via their diverse marketing strategies. Here is a snap shot of traffic growth for a couple of the more notable of these smaller emerging players: DimDim, Glance.net, Vyew, Yugma, and Yuuguu.

Hey Bloggers! Check out Yugma's latest blog post, They are giving back to bloggers by giving away premium web conferencing accounts worth $99 a year. Are you into doing software reviews, software demo's, working with others around the globe, leading project teams, sharing info with other people in online meetings? Well then hurry over to Yugma before the end of January and request your free account. Note: Yugma works on both Mac and Windows PC's

Yugma launched two new services a couple of weeks ago along with several significant enhancements to its suite of collaboration tools. Based on feedback and suggestions from the Yugma community they launched Yugma Premium 30 and Yugma Premium 100 services.

• Yugma Premium 30: Allows you to invite up to 30 other people to your web meetings and provides full access to all of the premium features such as mouse and keyboard sharing, scheduling, record and playback, live technical support, and more -- for only $29.95 per month (no contract required). 
  

• Yugma Premium 100: Similarly, Yugma Premium 100 allows you to invite up to 100 other people to your online meetings and provides full access to all premium features. This service is priced at $69.95 per month (no contract required).

These two new services allow Yugma to provide a very easy to use, cost effective and high-quality web collaboration solution for Mac, Windows (XP and Vista) and Linux users.

The beta version of the Linux viewer for Yugma is now available at www.yugma.com (then click the DOWNLOAD button). It supports the following versions of Linux: Centos Red Hat Enterprise 4.0 Slackware Mandriva Debian Ubuntu * Fedora * Open Suse * * Note: The Yugma control panel is invisible (hidden in system tray) when minimized. This item is currently being worked. With the Yugma Linux viewer, Linux users will be able to join Yugma sessions hosted by Windows and Mac computers. The desktop sharing feature for the Linux version is a "future feature." You are welcomed to test it out. Please let us know what you experience in this version.

The Linux version of the Yugma free web conferencing service is available at the beta test site http://test.yugma.com/about/index.php (then click the DOWNLOAD button). It supports Red Hat Enterprise 4.0, Mandriva, Open SUSE, Fedora, Debian, Centos, and Ubuntu.

You are welcomed to test it out. Please let us know what you experience in this version (send comments to support[at]yugma[dot]com). The only caveat about the beta version on the test platform is that the servers and bandwidth is not the same level as available in our production service. Therefore, if you see slower performance, it’s due to the nature of the test platform.

We are planning to move the Linux compatible version (beta) of Yugma to the production site over the weekend.

We just posted the schedule for Stage 2. Check it out at https://www.yugma.com/stage2/.

If you are at the Web 2.0 Expo, stop by booth #322 during the time posted. You can also attend virtually by clicking on “Join a Session” and using the Session ID noted for the presentation.

It's going to be great... "See you there!"

Yugma is reaching out to Linux community and Microsoft for May 1 “Show Us The Code” deadline

[Note inserted on June 3: View youtube video to see what happened at the 5/1/2007 meeting.]

Yesterday, I issued an invitation to both the Show Us The Code and Microsoft communities regarding a virtual “sit down” for the May 1, 2007 deadline. Yugma’s web collaboration software would enable key players from both groups to join a live session and present their sides.

As many of you know, in a letter to Steven Ballmer, the Linux community has requested that individuals “Publicly pledge your support for Microsoft showing the public the code within Linux that violates their intellectual property by May 1st, 2007. “ Through an open invitation to key players and observers, we intend to provide a forum for each side to address the other.

We’ve been watching this movement and wondering what would materialize on May 1 to complete this debate. Since people all over the world may want to participate, we wanted to offer a solution that would work regardless of geographic location and platform. We’re hoping that we can be one of the catalysts to end this question of code ownership.

The full text of the letter follows:

OPEN LETTER TO: Linux Community & Microsoft

My name is Karel Lukas, and I'm the COO at a web collaboration company called Yugma. I've been following the Show Us The Code movement and Microsoft’s position closely, and understand how important this issue is for the future vitality of the Open Source and Linux communities.

As the May 1^st deadline approaches, we at Yugma have been wondering what the ultimate conclusion of this debate will be. Will it quietly fizzle out? Will Microsoft continue to press their case and ignore the challenge? As we are approaching the May 1^st deadline, we propose that we all collectively drive this debate to a proper conclusion.

Yugma is about to launch our Linux version, which will make our collaboration service interoperable between Linux, Mac, and PC. We think that makes us the perfect platform for hosting a virtual "sit-down" between the Show Us The Code movement and Microsoft on the day of the deadline.

For this event, we are offering to host a live debate between the Show Us The Code group and Microsoft on May 1^st. Microsoft can present the alleged offending code live. Leaders from the Linux community can respond. Yugma will record the session and make it available to both parties afterwards for their own distribution. The date, time, and meeting information follows:

Date/Time: May 1, 2007 at 12:00 Noon Pacific Time
Place: www.yugma.com (click Join Session button)
Teleconference Bridge: +1-218-486-3889
Yugma Session ID: 109-433-046

We think Yugma would be a great venue for educating more people (and the Tech press) about the Show Us The Code movement as well as Microsoft’s position. We are in the process of contacting key contacts within both organizations to identify the key participants for the event. Likewise, key contacts from the Linux community and from Microsoft can contact us at showusthecode@yugma.com This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it . We will be exhibiting at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco April 16-18. If any of you will be there, please stop by the Yugma booth and we can discuss in person (booth #322).

At Yugma, we think web collaboration is for everyone, not just people in big companies. That’s why we created the world’s only completely free, cross-platform collaboration solution. It allows anyone, anywhere to work together.

Now, we’re taking that same vision to the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco on April 15-18, 2007. We believe good ideas deserve to be shared, regardless of the resources of their creators.

That’s why we’ve created Stage 2.

 

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Think of Stage 2 as a forum for ideas and thinking that otherwise might go unseen.

During the conference, Yugma will use our booth to become a virtual stage for companies and individuals who wouldn’t otherwise have a presence.

If you have content to share (best practices, innovative idea, new invention, product or service), send us the details in the form found at http://www.yugma.com/stage2/. All submissions need to be received by Friday, April 6, 2007, 11 p.m. CST to be considered. Go to http://www.yugma.com/stage2/ to see the submission form.