~terry
Wed, Jul 24, 1996 (10:56)
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PowWow -- How would you like to take up to six of your closest
friends on a cruise through Netscape or Internet Explorer? How
about being able to talk to an associate without needing to know
their Internet Protocol (IP) address -- much less what an IP address
even is? PowWow gives you the opportunity to do both of these
tasks and more. By registering yourself with the PowWow server,
anyone on the Internet also using PowWow can contact you for
text-based (and now voice-based as well) one-to-one conversation
-- all they need to know is your e-mail address! Users can also send
files to each other while conversing. PowWow is a dramatic
improvement over clients like WinTalk and Sticky Notes, which
force you to know the IP address of the person you want to
communicate with. As with VocalTec's Internet Phone, even users
with dynamic IP addresses can send and receive calls.
If the text/voice-based conversation gets old after a while and
adventure beckons, try out PowWow's cruise control feature. By
launching a cruise, you assume leadership over up to six followers
-- Netscape (or Internet Explorer) will launch on each machine,
and, as leader, you are able to call the shots and take the others on
a tour of your favorite Internet sites. Additional new features like a
50-user conference mode, a whiteboard for collaborative drawing,
and voice-chatting capabilities add to an already stacked
communications feature-set. For all of your text and voice-based
chatting needs, as well as your cruise control desires, PowWow is
the client of choice.
Pros: Conversation without the need for knowledge of IP
addresses, Netscape cruises!
Cons: Cruises only work with Netscape and Internet Explorer
New: 50-user conference mode,
New GUI technology, browse buttons, quick install, bug fixes,
more
Version Reviewed: 2.32
Date of Review: 6/27/96 Reviewer: Forrest Stroud
~terry
Mon, Jul 29, 1996 (12:13)
#1
Someone told me these guys live on top of a mountain and are really into
the Indian metaphor. I wonder if they live in teepees?
This is a neat app and challenges Virtual Places with it's website
touring, I wonder if they're attracting anything like the population at
Virtual Places?
~terryd
Sat, Oct 26, 1996 (15:56)
#2
The new ver. 3.0 beta 1 is awesome. be sure to check out the text to
speech feature. I've never had much luck getting the voice chat feature
to work but there are lots of other apps. for that. T.D.
~terry
Sun, Oct 27, 1996 (13:18)
#3
What is awesome about it?
~terryd
Sun, Oct 27, 1996 (15:27)
#4
I think what really got me going was the text to speech feature.
When you're a really crappy typist like I am, It's cool to have the
'puter read the incoming text. That way I can keep looking at the
keyboard. To say nothing about what that would mean to someone with
a visual disability. T.D.
~terry
Sun, Oct 27, 1996 (16:56)
#5
That is cool, I have a lot of friends around Austin with visual disability. It's on my download
list to checkout.
~Godfree2
Thu, Feb 5, 1998 (11:42)
#6
This area appears to be dead!
Anyway my gripe with PW is the limited communities, lack of depth.
Tribal seems to think everyone is spiritual and ignores the active
groups / interests under life-stances such as:
-skeptics
-debunking: UFOlogy, scams, myths
-Humanism
-Atheism
-Cult awareness
-Deprogramming
~terry
Thu, Feb 5, 1998 (23:04)
#7
Galen, what's the latest with PowWow? Are you using it? Is it improving?
~berkey
Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (15:51)
#8
I would like someone to send me a comparison between PowWow and ICQ. Which is
better? Aren't they basically the same? I like the drawing board in PowWow, and from what I see, ICQ does not have it. But I want to use the best, so which one? And why?
~terry
Sun, Jul 26, 1998 (21:58)
#9
How do you use the drawing board? I think ICQ is just the 900 lb.
gorilla of contact software, it's so widespread.