I’ve been trying out a number of offerings on the screensharing and collaboration front lately, so was very, very pleased to find Robin Good’s great review of the newly launched Adobe Brio over at Master New Media today.
There are a whole lot of reasons that this has me excited:
- It’s totally cross platform, because it’s browser-based
- It’s totally free to use
- It doesn’t suck
For us mac users that is very good news indeed given that we are seriously limited when compared to the Windows users as to the range of options available for sharing our screens and doing the whole online collaboration thing. Yes iChat Theater rocks, but it has the same problem that iChat always had - unless you are communicating with another mac user, you’re basically screwed.
Brio lets me use whiteboarding tools, share my screen (and check out other participants screens), video conference, use free VOIP and use basic chat and file sharing features. And it looks great.
This is just the kind of tool that will facilitate easy off-the-cuff tutorials, small business collaboration sessions, and the ability for me to show work in progress to clients instantaneously without them having to sign up for or download a thing.
Check out Robin’s full review for more details, or get stuck in yourself with a free beta account.
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Brio.. is a cool application, i liked it.. Thanks for the tip.. Keep up the good work..
Hmmm, Robin seems to be qualifying everything. Note the: “off-the-cuff” tutorials and “small business” collaboration sessions. I guess the tool must fall down when used in mid- to large-Enterprise scenarios.
If I play a quicktime movie to someone using iChat theater, they hear the audio. If I do that with Brio, they don’t. That, to me, is an app killer.