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Title: How to co-browse a website with my friend? What do you recommend?
Post by: joston905 on July 21, 2008, 01:18:15 am

Is there a special add-on or an application, possibly web based, that I could use to co-browse websites with my friend? So that I could see the contents of my friends screen, when he's surfing the web.

Title: Re: How to co-browse a website with my friend? What do you recommend?
Post by: patrickl on July 21, 2008, 01:56:31 am

You could use one of the VNC versions. There are plenty free versions of this available. Like RealVNC (http://www.realvnc.com/), Ultra VNC (http://www.uvnc.com/index.html) and Tight VNC (http://www.tightvnc.com/). Personally I use Real VNC. I tried Ultra VNC recently and it killed the performance of the server (90% CPU load), but on desktops it seems to work fine. So I kept using Real VNC.

Then there are several webbased solutions where you share your screen to a webbrowser application. I use GotoMeeting (http://www.gotomeeting.com/) a lot and a client of mine uses RemotelyAnywhere (http://www.remotelyanywhere.com/). These are pretty expensive though.