BRIO Beta

Adobe's latest beta release is BRIO, a computer conferencing program of the likes of go to meeting. You can view it here http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/brio/.

BRIO allows you to invite multiple users to a central locale to view your screen. You can:

• share your screen
• share your mike (VOIP)
• share you webcam
• give control of your computer to another user
• request another user to share their monitor
• set up phone conference settings

However, the coolest feature I found was the collaborative draw and annotation tool. This tool allows all users to draw and write on a snapshot of the screen at the time you entered into the annotation mode. Therefore, you can highlight and comment on display without actually changed the original contents to show each other what your speaking of or point out areas of interest on the screen.

As a programmer I wouldn't have much need to use this utility very often but for the BDO and IA departments could find this to be a fun and valuable tool to use during phone or conference calls with clients.