I got an email from Wolfgang Berger in Germany, asking if I would like to take a look at a relatively new piece of web conferencing software from his young company, Conferendum.

I took him up on the offer, and we went through a demo, followed by a small amount of playing with the presenter’s interface on my part. I haven’t used it enough for a full product review, but I wanted to tell you about two innovative implementations in the software. Web conferencing products are getting more and more similar, so it’s always fun and exciting for me when I see a product that introduces a new slant on a piece of functionality.

The first function involves making it easier for your audience to see content on a shared PowerPoint slide or work document (you can display a snapshot of content from most Microsoft Office documents). In addition to standard annotation tools such as drawing colored lines on the screen, you can specify an arbitrary rectangular region that you want zoomed.

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If you’re looking forward to start up a small business enterprise, investment happens to be a key concern. How much, how less and where exactly; these are the preliminary encounters.

Open source software has a lot of options for the business world, alongside the home user bandwagon. Apart from the other generic features, Open Source Software at times have a greater degree of customization as compared to their proprietary counterparts. This very fact is pretty evident with the fact that several large companies like — Google, Amazon, Yahoo, et al run their servers on Linux, again an Open Source OS.

The idea behind this article is not to force start you to follow the Open Source path, but to make you look at the same as an alternative before you shell out a few hundred or thousand dollars for a close
source and non-free product which does pretty much the same as it’s Open Source and free alternative.

Before we move on, I would like to clear out that free software and Open Source Software are two different entities, though they often come as a bundle!

Today, we shall have a look at a few Open Source Software which may just help you kick start your business.

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