Zoho Meeting Public Beta

I know, I’m going to look like a total Zoho fanboi; what with two posts in two days about their products… But hey, I am a fan and this is “breaking” news.

Zoho Meeting came out of private beta today. Some of the key points:

Create Meetings, share desktop with multiple attendees

Attendees can attend the meeting from any operating system

Comes with three viewers – Active-X, Java and Flash

Participants can choose to control presenter’s desktop

Meeting Viewer can be embedded into web pages and applications

Zoho Show and Zoho Chat is integrated into Zoho Meeting

Zoho Meeting is currently free while in Beta

What immediately caught my eye: See bullet 4 about controlling the presenter’s desktop? Could this be another interesting option for remote support? Something I’d like to test out soon. Of course, the integrated Zoho chat and Zoho Show look great too.

Wonder what sort of pricing structure we’ll see? CrossLoop (remote support) is free and works great — but doesn’t do one fourth of what this does. Some of the folks at work swear by Glance, but it isn’t exactly free and a lot of the competitors in the “online meeting” space are even more expensive. For instance, while WebEx is pretty slick, the pricing just about stops my heart.

I definitely look forward to trying this out soon (in a real-world test). Anyone used it yet? If so, I’d love to hear your impressions.

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Arvind

June 20th, 2007 at 12:50 am · Reply

Thanks for taking note of the Zoho Meeting release, Chris

Julie Simms

June 20th, 2007 at 3:03 pm · Reply

This looks like a GREAT product. Thanks for giving me a heads-up about it. It looks like something I can really use. . .

Julie

Lynnl

June 20th, 2007 at 6:51 pm · Reply

Thanks for the notice, but Iam not sure I require anything this complicated.

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Chris

June 20th, 2007 at 7:12 pm · Reply

@Arvind – Thanks for dropping by

@Julie – you’re welcome, of course.

@Lynnl – Oh, it’s not all the complicated… good luck with the viral thing.

Joeys

June 21st, 2007 at 6:02 am · Reply

Hi guys,

if you are concerned about the price go and get teamviewer (www.teamviewer.com). This desktop sharing tool is for free, can do a lot of things and simply works marvellous!

June 21st, 2007 at 9:35 am · Reply

Great link, Joeys. Thanks for sharing it. I’ll have to give it a look soon.