Yuuguu is a free desktop screen sharing application that is available for all platforms including Windows, Mac and Linux.
Their USP is a browser based Flash client that enables participants to join screen sharing sessions or request remote access without downloading any software. And now Yuuguu works with your Google Talk or Gmail contacts as well.
You download the Yuuguu client and then associate your Google account with the Yuuguu service. I guess this works with Google Apps accounts as well.
Yuuguu will then automatically show you a list of GTalk friends who’re currently online and you can easily initiate a screen sharing session with anyone by selecting "Show" in the chat window.
Instead of receiving the screen-share request in Yuuguu, your Gmail and Google Talk contacts will receive the screen-share link just like a regular chat message. They can click the link and will be able to instantly see your screen in a Flash enabled web browser. Very cool.
When in screen sharing mode, the person on the other side may even request control of your machine through the browser itself.
And since Yuuguu is a browser based app, it doesn’t matter if you’re on Windows and your friends are on Mac or Linux.
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Also read reviews of some other Screen Sharing apps including Microsoft SharedView, Team Viewer, CrossLoop and Adobe Brio.
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Reader Comments
I looked at Yuuguu’s website, but couldn’t find an answer to this question: by associated your gmail/gtalk account, are you sending your Google username & password to Yuuguu? It wasn’t clear to me, and this is a pretty big security question.
Written by Larry C on 10.10.08
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This screenshot looks like we really share our details with another third party service. And there was not ONE sentence mentioning some API or so. No way, I’d share my personal account information with a third party company. A company I’ve never heard of before.
Written by Marco on 10.10.08
looks like it’s using xmpp / jabber :-o when there is no API
Written by Marco on 10.10.08
Thanks for the write up; you describe Yuuguu well, and I’m glad you’re finding it useful.
Larry, your question re: security is a pretty big one, and I had a go at answering it earlier today here
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But basically, yes, to use the integration between GTalk and Yuuguu you currently need to enter your Google account details. And this is bad practice for security, admittedly. I’m very nervous about that myself, I last did for a Facebook mail import.
For our GMail contact info retrieval, those details definitely don’t hit our servers. For the GTalk IM integration, I think they do (would need to double check), or else we would be asking for a login very often.
We spoke with the Google API guy at FOWA in London the other day about this; the web-based google login doesn’t sit well with our desktop client at present. We looked into OAuth a while back, and that doesn’t seem to quite solve the problem either.
We’re definitely on the lookout for a suitable web-and-desktop based authentication/authorisatio system though. It would be much more reassuring if we could ditch the need to enter account details.
That said, the integration pieces are ease-of-use niceties. You can always import your contacts from a CSV file into Yuuguu, Invite your contacts to Yuuguu and simply use the system that way. That requires no account details, but obviously, is less appealing to existing GTalk users.
Hope it helps - at least a bit,
Al (Yuuguu Dev Team)
Written by Al Mellor on 10.11.08
How about the GotoMeeting, it shares everything even desktops of the respective users? anyway need to check with this once.
Written by Vivekanand on 10.11.08