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Does this differ from Goinstant (http://www.goinstant.com/ http://www.goinstant.com/ )? It was aquired by Salesforce in July 2012 for $70MM.
by Ganthor 14y ago
Does this differ from Goinstant (http://www.goinstant.com/ http://www.goinstant.com/ )? It was aquired by Salesforce in July 2012 for $70MM.
- RaphiePS 14y agoAbsolutely. GoInstant is for the web only, and is meant for tech support rather than collaboration.
- jonny_eh 14y agoI thought GoInstant was for sales mainly.
- jsherwani 14y agoI'm one of the co-founders of PowWow. We're a lot like GoInstant — in fact their demo video does an even better job than ours does of explaining the concept to a layperson. It's interesting that while their product and ours have very similar use cases, the technology stack is completely different. They have a browser-within-the-browser, while we have an interaction layer over the OS — and we both do crazy hacks to make multiple-mouse live collaboration work. We've met the GoInstant guys, and they're an awesome team with a great product, and we're definitely fans of theirs.
- tabulatouch 14y agoThat's great hacking guys. I am waiting for the Windows version, where i think you'll have a hard time escaping the "only one window has focus" dogma. Btw, if you need beta testers i am here.
- fireballer 14y agoIt looks like a total copy of the concept/interactions to be honest. Hopefully for Powwow GoInstant hasn't patented this stuff... Good artists copy, great artists steal perhaps?