Chat Translation, 3D Objects, and Google Docs™
Augment your web meeting experience with more Showdocument features

Showdocument, an online collaboration and web meeting tool, provides a platform for users to share presentations and edit documents together. You may not be aware of other great features in our product that will enhance your web meeting experience.
Chat translator
In the global working environment, multilingual capabilities are a must. Web meeting participants often do not speak the same language and cannot communicate very effectively. The new Chat Translator allows two participants or more to chat …

Show Maps: Real-time map sharing, now on Facebook™
We recently released a beta version of Show Maps – an application that lets Facebook users share and annotate maps with others in real-time.
When using maps, people often share information about locations, plan trips together and mark places of interest. With Showdocument, our fully-featured web meeting and real-time collaboration tool, users can do all that online, in real-time. Due to the popularity of Facebook we released a version that can be used within Facebook, called ’Show Maps’.
Share and mark routes and places of …

Showdocument and Interior Design
This is a possible scenario of how Showdocument is a valuable asset in a creative and fast-moving business environment.
Showdocument, a free web meeting collaboration tool, is effective in both commercial and non-commercial environments. For example, students collaborate and write documents together, friends plan a trip together and annotate maps online and business people share presentations in real-time. The following is a short scenario of how an interior designer would use Showdocument when working with his clients.
The Interior Design Scenario
Howard Dugger has been an Interior Designer for 20 …

Collaboration Platforms: Changing the Way People Work
Online collaboration is gradually having an effect on the way we communicate in our work environment
There is a lot of hype around Web collaboration following the preview of Google Wave. We recently wrote an introduction to web meetings, where we explained how they are beneficial. Online collaboration tools have an increasing effect on the way we work and communicate and are foreseen to rapidly develop in the near future.
Online tools in the workplace
Technology contributed greatly to the way people communicate and work together. Email …

Web Meetings – An Introduction
There is currently a buzz about web meetings and online collaboration tools. What are they and what are they good for?
What are web meetings?
Web meetings are real-time online internet meetings between two or more people. Various types of activities are possible in these meetings, depending on the web meeting application used. It is possible for example, to work together in order edit documents, make sketches, or share maps and mark planned routes.
How do web meetings take place?
While some web meeting platforms require software installation, ShowDocument only …

These days there is a lot of hype about google wave changing the future of web collaboration and email. Some argue that Google wave will replace email, while others rush to defend email, saying this new collaboration tool only complicates our ways of communication. Considering these speculations, It seems the truth might be something in the middle; Email will not disappear as it is a simple and efficient option, and other tools already offer part of the solutions Google wave contains. So new services like wave will more likely be …