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

by Concours on 5/15/2010, 1:39 PM with 24 comments
  • by dc2k08 on 5/15/2010, 4:52 PM

    A more recent skype feature worth an upgrade is group video calling: http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/05/group_video_calling.html

  • by zacharypinter on 5/15/2010, 3:13 PM

    I use this daily with my dev team. It's great because skype is cross-platform, easily traverses firewalls/NAT, and combines the screen sharing with voice chat.

    Any competing tool (or set of tools) would have to accomplish those same goals.

    Also, I tend to use skype (or email) whenever I have to paste a large block of text (like a stack trace), since Yahoo and AIM both avoid sending messages if they're too long.

  • by dzlobin on 5/15/2010, 4:27 PM

    If your internet connection is too slow and skype/ichat screen sharing is laggy, I recommend ssh+screen+vim/emacs

  • by merraksh on 5/15/2010, 3:23 PM

    Not sure if it is available for Linux yet. One can try yuuguu, but it's only free for up to 100 minutes/month: http://www.yuuguu.com/features/skype-integration

  • by drallison on 5/15/2010, 3:23 PM

    Skype and a cell phone (with Skype App) are all you need. In many ways, Skype is the killer app of the 21-st century.

  • by ohashi on 5/16/2010, 2:44 PM

    I've been giving demo's of my company's beta over skype for a few weeks... it's so simple. Everyone has it and I can tailor each demo to each person and they can actually see it working live, ask questions, etc. It's wonderful.

  • by albertzeyer on 5/15/2010, 8:00 PM

    I would prefer such a thing as an XMPP extension.

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  • by braindead_in on 5/15/2010, 6:50 PM

    Is it remote desktop too? Can you take control of the users computer as well?

  • by onewland on 5/15/2010, 8:35 PM

    Does anybody know how this compares to AIM screen sharing with audio?