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Is GoToMeeting the Best Web Conferencing Solution?

June 4th, 2010 Posted in blog

No! Gotomeet­ing and WebEx starts at $50/month, which allows them to cover their huge mar­ket­ing bud­gets. How­ev­ery you can find the same fea­ture set in Yugma, for $10/mo. Vyew and Yakkle offers simalr an less refined fea­tures for free, which might not be a bad trade if you need to host a meet­ing right now, and then never hold another meet­ing again.

I am not a fan of con­fer­enc­ing appli­ca­tions that cause you to have to down­load files before the meet­ing start, because it is too dif­fi­cult to coor­di­nate, which is why I went look for options other than Gotomeet­ing and WebEx.

Vyew is the only con­fer­enc­ing prod­uct I saw that runs from a browser plug-in which is a lit­tle bet­ter, but I don’t like that it only runs on the most bug­gi­est browser avail­able, Inter­net Explorer. The down­side is that voice has to be done by VOIP or com­puter micro­phone, which is a has­sle to coor­di­nate as your con­fer­ence group gets larger.

Yugma lets you do SKype, and pro­vides a tele­phone num­ber for atten­dees to call into to join the conference.

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