Online screen sharing

I was reading through the blog for one of my favorite screen sharing applications, Yuuguu, and came across some interesting points about growing interest in screen sharing. A look at Google Trends shows that searches for “screen sharing” have risen hugely in the past year. Also, India tops the list of countries showing interest in that search term. I’m not surprised that screen sharing is on the rise, and Yuuguu and Yugma are my favorite free applications in this space.

Hopefully, you don"t hand out your phone number to just anybody you meet on the street or online. But if you"d like to gab with people while retaining some anonymity, Jangl can hook you up. Launched today, this service provides users with virtual telephone numbers that route calls to your real phone number and messages to your e-mail in-box. Rather than being designed as a buffer between you and the masses you meet out on the town, Jangl (also here) focuses on allowing voice calls for relationships that begin on the Internet. This privacy screen could add a safety layer if you"re selling stuff or dating online (Match.com already uses Jangl"s technology.). You can add Jangl widgets to your blog, MySpace account, e-mail signature, and elsewhere. ***

Don"t want to pay the freight for WebEx, Breeze, or another remote presentation tool? Try Vyew, a browser-based conferencing system. Vyew makes short work of sharing images or PowerPoint files. It"s also easy to snap a screenshot and share that, or even set up live screen sharing, although the screen updates are a lot choppier than with a software-based presentation tool. Users can chat during a presentation or mark up the screens they"re viewing in real time. You can also share a Yahoo map in real time (as you pan and zoom around it) and create a photo show, with a music track, that you can push out to viewers. There are some bonus modules too, including a simple diagrammer (better bet: do a screen share of a ***

Everybody on the Net knows that Google is gunning for the heart of Microsoft"s Office business, with its online word processor, Writely, and its spreadsheet, Google Spreadsheets. But Microsoft"s most vulnerable application is PowerPoint, since it"s used so much by business travelers (who might appreciate not having to lug their own computer around) and because easy access to online presentations could revolutionize sales. Google isn"t yet talking about its PowerPoint killer, but a few start-ups, such as Zoho, Structured Data, and ***