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Meet Mikogo: a new online collaboration tool

10.03.2009
So if you've ever had to work together with a phalanx of co-workers dispersed across time and space, you may have run into this problem of not being exactly sure how to share documents. Fortunately our blogging team hasn't (yet) run into this problem--e-mail and IM seem to suit us just fine. But you may need to do spreadsheets, presentations, the whole nine yards. How do you make sure that everyone is literally on the same page at the same time?

These days, there are already out there. However, many of them can be costly and/or cumbersome to use. Enter , which may prove to be one of the easiest-to-use. And it's free. Those are qualities I definitely appreciate in software.

The new Mac version, which has been in , is available starting Wednesday, but the good folks over in Mannheim, Germany were kind enough to let us (and you!) get an early look. You can even .

Mikogo's features include cross-platform screen-sharing for up to 10 participants in real-time, presenter switching, easy voice conferencing, and 256-bit AES encryption of all data.