New Open-Source WebConferencing Platform: It Doesn't Wow But It Works!

Today I have some spent some time testing WebHuddle, a passionately homegrown open-source web conferencing and live presentation system available right now online.

The brainchild of John McCaughey (of whom I publish a genuine conversation with me as I first explore his new tool - available at the end of this article), this is a humble, hype-less system with the foundations to provide a good basic solution to all those organizations and institutions yet unable to afford a full-fledged, commercial solution.

WebHuddle is a new, still in beta, cross-platform and fully open-source server-based web conferencing system integrating text chat, VoIP (one-to-many), PowerPoint presentation facility, live annotation and markup tools, application sharing, polling and recording in a secure environment.