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Meetings.io (YC W11) now has screen sharing and file sharing built in.

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Where is the information on the adobe plugin you are using to do screensharing? Looked into doing it before but had to use java- Would love to play with the adobe version but I thought it was lifecycle only....

Awesome job Denis & Arend!! Love the product. Simple to use and just works. New features step it up!! Here's an interview I did with Denis re meetings.io after they launched ~ http://www.theroadtosiliconvalley.com/founders/interview-den...

Isn't this essentially cannibalizing ScreenLeap (YC W12)?

not really. ScreenLeap is catering for a dead-simple screen sharing service used in conjunction with any communications medium (phone, email, skype etc) - whereas meetings.io is enabling screen sharing wholly within the meeting.io experience.

Greets!

I spoke to you guys over email and need to touch base with you.

can you email me at ss@teecom.com

I'd like to talk to you about integration, BlueJeans, competition, etc...

It requires the Adobe ConnectNow plugin for screensharing so it doesn't work on linux.

Only 5 people at a time? That seems very low number of participants.

we have plans to open it to unlimited participants - stay tuned for this and more shortly

Whats the plan for making money? Is this ya - join.me?

we have an exciting new monetization strategy that will enable free use of our services and does not rely on advertising - stay tuned for more very soon :)

join.me is LogMeIn

I tried to sign up twice and it just clears the form.

for most cases where this happens - make sure you enter a valid password by typing it in and not via copy n paste - we only allow signups if real people entered the password.. we're gonna put up a dialog to say this v. soon

Can you turn that off? Many people use password managers.

This is where a seemingly good ux and anti-spam measure actually gets in the way of some users.

just pushed up an update to detect change events on the password field - this should now enable password extensions to work - although the other fields (name, email) still have a keyup event detection to detect real users

And why have you decided to enforce that?

In case it wasn't obvious from the other comments, this is a pretty tremendously bad idea. Not to mention easily circumvented by anyone interested.

Sweet stuff. Works great.

Awesome job guys!

But not for Linux+Chrome users, Thinkpad T400S

http://cl.ly/0n2s013K3g3M1a0O3U2S

bummer - it should work fine for linux systems (on any browser) - what's your system specs and we'll try get a fix out quick?

Lenovo Thinkpad T400S

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P9400 @ 2.40GHz

8 gigs of memory

OCZ SSD for storage

Linux odin 3.2.0-26-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 14 17:49:24 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Chrome Version 20.0.1132.47 beta

Flash (2 files) - Version: 11.3.31.109

Shockwave Flash 11.3 r31

Miscellany provided on request.

It's a better idea to put that info in a gist or an email so it doesn't clutter the thread.

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try this - in your chrome://plugins/ page enable the non-chrome built-in flash (the one that has Location: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin) and disable the chrome built-in flash - this may be a quick fix for now until we figure out why the built-in version is playing up

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