TOP TOOLS 2008
Yugma
Yugma
offers instant real-time desktop sharing, virtual meetings and web conferencing, whiteboard, annotate and
ability to share files. You can invite up to 10 people for free
and provide widget for your website.
| Website |
www.yugma.com |
| Cost |
Free for up to 10 participants
(Paid-for versions available).
Yugma has an education
program where accredited higher education
institutions can receive up to 100 Yugma
Professional-10 accounts free of charge for one
year.
www.yugma.com/education |
| Availability |
Online/Download |
|
Platform |
Windows, Mac, Linux |
| 2007 ranking |
72= |
|
2008 (Spring) ranking |
64= |
|
2008 (Final) ranking |
66= |
Comments from those who selected Yugma as one of
their Top 10 Tools in 2009
- (latest version) is an outstanding, Web
2.0 web-conferencing tool. It’s free and puts
services like WebEx, Adobe Connect, and GoToMeeting
to shame. It also works within Skype. Soon, Yugma
will include a feature that will enable you to save
an online conference to a hosted, streaming file.
This new feature will provide a truly unique way to
create a streaming lecture or tutorial that goes
beyond the current capabilities of static
screenshots plus embedded soundtracks.
Rick Lillie
Comments from those who selected Yugma as one of
their Top 10 Tools in 2008
- "Yugma is an excellent screen
sharing application. At EdTechTalk, we have
used Yugma many times to facilitate live
interactive web casts. Combined with Skype,
it provides a great free online presentation
option."
Jennifer
Maddrell
- "Free web conferencing tool. I’ve run several course
and document reviews using this tool and it has worked
well. The new browser-based web conference tool dimdim
might well give them a run for their money though."
Rob Hubbard
- "is an
outstanding, Web 2.0 web-conferencing tool. It’s
free and puts services like WebEx, Adobe Connect,
and GoToMeeting to shame. It also works within Skype.
Soon, Yugma will include a feature that will enable
you to save an online conference to a hosted,
streaming file. This new feature will provide a
truly unique way to create a streaming lecture or
tutorial that goes beyond the current capabilities
of static screenshots plus embedded soundtracks."
Rick Lillie
- "the best way to share a
desktop - work with skype"
Florence
Meichel
Comments from those who selected Yugma as one of
their Top 10 Tools in 2007
- "Collaboration is coming of
age on the web and Yugma through its free online
conferencing service is a useful way of exploring
these developments. Up to 10 users are free,
including desktop sharing, annotation tools and
whiteboarding. If you don’t want the ads you can pay
$90 a year."
Steve Rayson
- "Tried a lot of
live collaboration tools and this is one of the simplest
and best for small group collaboration. Works well and
very flexible. "
David Wilson
- "Yugma is an
online conferencing tool similar to WebEx,
Adobe’s Breeze, and Citrix’s GoToMeeting. It is
very inexpensive and includes “free options” not
offered by the other major conferencing service
providers. I combine Yugma with Skype (audio
call) and FREEPATH to hold online conferences,
to provide one-on-one tutoring with students,
and to create streaming presentations. Yugma
has an outstanding “whiteboard” tool. Combine
Yugma’s ability to capture audio/video with the
inking technology features of a Tablet PC and
you have an absolute “killer approach” to
creating interactive streaming presentations.
This combination of tool features enables you to
create presentations that go far beyond the
static PowerPoint screenshots with embedded
soundtracks. Yugma works in a similar way to
SightSpeed. When you capture the screen, the
audio/video file is hosted by Yugma. Yugma
gives you a URL that you can use to share the
streaming presentation."
Rick Lillie
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