Entries in "teleconferencing"
June 29, 2006
Marratech
Earlier today, I had my first experience using proper web conferencing software. In the past, I used to phone in to lab meetings, but that had various drawbacks and limitations, and I was much more impressed with the solution we used today.
Marratech makes teleconferencing software, and they offer a somewhat restricted free client. The client is unable to handle more than 5 concurrent connections (not an issue for my use), and restricted to only using public 'rooms' on their servers, which could potentially be an issue but so far the people I know who use this haven't had any issues with strangers intruding. Here's what the service offers:
October 06, 2005
My First Teleconference
Yesterday I had my first teleconference. The word teleconference
gives me an entirely inappropriate mental picture; some sort of super-hi-tech wizardry like the holograms at the Jedi Council. Sadly the reality is far less cool - I phone the lab, they put me on speaker and put the phone on the table between them.