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Saturday, May 15, 2010

Skype Screen Sharing Is A Huge (And Free) Productivity Tool

Skype Screen Sharing Is A Huge (And Free) Productivity Tool

And just for Plain old Fun, too!:)

by Michael Arrington on May 15, 2010

Over the years we’ve been pitched many thousands of times by startups. Sometimes those pitches are in person. Sometimes it’s over the phone, which works if you have a live website to play with. But all too often we get requests for meetings via WebEx or one of the dozens of competing products. Over the years those products have improved, but the percentage of failures is way too high. It’s always awkward when people are talking about what you would see if the meeting software worked.

The problems with these products are particularly frustrating when we put on a big launch event like TechCrunch Disrupt later this month. We schedule hundreds of live demos in a two week period, stacking them every 20 minutes for days on end. Companies can choose how they want to live screencast their software and demos, and we’ve informally tracked what software they choose and the failure rates.

Skype video, which now has screen sharing, now accounts for about 30% of all demos for us.

Read more: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/15/skype-screen-sharing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher#ixzz0o10cQEap

Go there and read the rest of the Article...
http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/15/skype-screen-sharing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

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