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August 26, 2005
Opensource Crossplatform Web Conferencing
WebHuddle is an open-source web conferencing and live presentation system. Robin Good says "this is a humble, hype-less system with the foundations to provide a good basic solution to all those organizations and institutions yet unable to afford a full-fledged, commercial solution."
It's new. It's in BETA; so I'm not sure all of the bugs have been worked out of the system yet. It is cross platform and can be used with any browser that supports Java running Linux, Windows, Unix, and Mac. You can find a demo onsite and if you don't want to install it, you can sign up for a free account on the website to give it a try. I didn't. I have Java disabled in my default browser...by choice.
One of the features I like about it, as explained by Robin, is:
Any WebHuddle meeting can be fully recorded, and all text chat exchanges, PowerPoint slides and instances of a screen sharing session are fully recorded along with the optional voice channel of the presenter. The recorded sessions can be played back through WebHuddle or distributed and hosted on other servers for people to see without needing to login into a WebHuddle session. The recorded session can be saved in a format that integrates its own dedicated player making it sufficiently portable.
If you give it a try and like it let me know. Maybe I will go back and try it with a Java enabled browser.
Posted by Steve MacLellan at August 26, 2005 06:26 AM
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