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During my presentation at UX Week, I discussed the “visualization” category of web apps for collaboration. I quoted Jeff Veen’s comment that screen-sharing seems to be more useful then seeing one another when collaborating over distance. With that in mind, I talked about VNC and free web tools like Vyew.

If you could have both screen-sharing and see or hear one another, though, wouldn’t that be nice? Right before UX Week, it seems Apple announced some of what iChat will be capable of in OS X Leopard — and wow is it impressive.

Tom Coates drew my attention to these drool-worthy new features with a post on his blog: Screen-sharing and slideshows, complete with live audio or video commentary. And it’s all tightly integrated with the messaging client many of us use every day.

That coupling with the Mac OS will work both for and against these features’ uptake in internal and consultative environments. Seeing as how nearly all of my coworkers and an increasing number of my clients exclusively use Macs, I honestly couldn’t be happier. I’ll be able to give and get over-the-shoulder demos, dry-run presentations, and troubleshoot my system… all without sending another piece of email, or even leaving my desk.

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