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Live screencasting alternative: WebHuddle

Posted by: Administrator on March 20, 2007 10:00 PM
Thanks for the nice article! For pre-recording screencasts, I agree with the posts suggesting Wink, Istanbul or other alternatives that involve less pain.


For live screencasts, I humbly recommend WebHuddle. WebHuddle is an open source web conferencing solution that runs in any Java-enabled browser:


<a href="https://www.webhuddle.com/" title="webhuddle.com">https://www.webhuddle.com/</a webhuddle.com>


People use it on Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD, and other OSes. You can screencast your entire desktop or a limited region of it to everyone who joins your conference. The no-install client applet is an insanely small 125KB, so participants enter your meeting in seconds.


You can optionally record the live session, including audio, screencast, slides, chat and all other content. Editing is not supported yet.


Another open source web conferencing solution is the Flash-based DimDim, but it is not cross platform.

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