Team Apart (YC S08) hosts group meetings online for free

This is where Skype should have been going all these years instead of spending time on pipe dreams with EBay integration.

I wonder how long they (Team Apart) can stay ahead ahead of the long tail of all these collaboration apps coming online. They may have great tools, but there will always be more/better/other tools you want to use.

I think the Google Wave platform approach might be more of what they should do. Provide the platform with extension points and let everyone else build the apps for you. Developers, developers, developers, etc.

Would the founders mind sharing if they used a PR shop or if this was an organic get?

I'm not one of the founders, but Paul Boutin covered them for Venture Beat too.

I've been using TeamApart for a few weeks now with great results. Once remote desktop sharing comes online this thing will be unstoppable.

i love this product. it's really useful for remote dev stuff