Ali – http://e-hobbies.blogspot.com

I wanted to say that we designed Yuuguu ground-up as a collaboration tool. It gets used for all sorts of stuff like web conferencing, sales calls, demos and what have you where it works very well. But it really is best at the remote teamwork application you talk of.

We started with the idea of ‘what do you do when you are in an office?’. We realised that the value of being in an office is that you can look up from your desk and see who is in, who is busy, and who looks free to help. So we added presence indicators to yuuguu – green and red lights by the side of everyone’s name which say ‘available/busy/do not disturb’.

You would then next perhaps shout or walk over to a colleague you thought you could work with. So, on yuuguu, we added instant message chat. You can send a quick ‘got a sec?’ kind of message by clicking your colleague’s name, typing the message in the drop down box and hitting enter.

You would then give them some context about why you wanted their advice. In the office, you walk over to your desk and start pointing at work on your computer screen. This is where the screen sharing and remote control features came in. We made sure that you could show your screen to up to 30 people, so you can do group-work with yuuguu. We later added ‘web share’ which is where people can view your screen share with just a web browser, without downloading the yuuguu app itself.

Of course you need to talk whilst you’re doing this, so we added low-cost, no-set-up voice conferencing using real telephones. We later added Skype integration, as a lot o people were wanting to work that way.

About the way in which you share your screen and the other person can accept/decline, we made it that way as a privacy control. Nobody can just ‘log in’ to your computer and see what you are doing unless you explicitly allow them to, and are fully aware of it. We saw that as much more appropriate to professional teamwork. That said, we’ve been asked to change it a few times, so currently we support a button ‘Please show me your screen’ which turns things round a bit. We might well make a more remote login style thing in the future.

Thanks for the good review!
Al from Yuuguu

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Thanks for reviewing Mikogo and including it on AddictiveTips.com.
Just to let you know, we officially announced the Mikogo Skype Extra last week with a press release and new web page designed to assist everyone in getting started and using the Extra: http://skype.mikogo.com
Simply download the Extra and invite your Skype contacts to free Mikogo meetings. There are no registrations and no costs involved. And the best part is that you have access to all the Mikogo features.

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Once again, thanks for posting about Mikogo.

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Andrew
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My name is Jonah and I’m with Yugma.

If you’re looking for an easy to use, reliable web conferencing solution visit http://www.yugma.com and try us out. Yugma is a Java-based web conferencing and online meeting service that is for EVERYONE – Mac, Windows and Linux users. We encourage you and your readers to try out our service. Our Personal version is FREE to use for desktop sharing and allows you to invite up to 10 attendees at anytime. After signing up, you’ll be able test drive the Professional version of Yugma for 15 days. Use our full set of collaboration tools and let us know what you think.

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