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Free & Low-Cost Videoconference Solutions
April 9, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
In recent times we’ve seen a number of free or low-cost videoconference solutions become available via the www. It’s horses for courses and these are suitable for some things but not for others. The beauty is that they’re cheap (or free) & easily accessible – on our laptop wherever we are.
Robin Good has done a pretty comprehensive overview and comparison of the various Internet videoconferencing solutions. You can read it here.
The criteria he uses are:
- Platform: Type of tool (software / web-based).
- Video channels: Number of parties that can participate to a video conference at the same time (refers only to multi-party tools).
- Public conference: Ability to make a video conference fully public.
- Embeddable widget: Flash widget embeddable on web sites or social media sites.
- Session recording: Feature to record your conference session for later review or publishing.
- Text chat: Ability to text-chat other participants.
- Other features: File transfer, screen-sharing, live annotation, whiteboarding, etc.
- Pro starting price: Price and additional features of the first advanced pricing level.
