Old news to many, but I had a need to share my desktop today for a conference call. I remembered Microsoft had ShareView coming out of beta, so I downloaded it and was up and running in a few minutes. Its well worth your time having installed. For demo'ing a website prototype to external people, it worked great.

Microsoft ShareView download

Microsoft ShareView Connect Page

Overview

• Hold more effective meetings and conference calls
• Connect with up to 15 people in different locations and get your point across by showing them what's on your screen.
• Work together in real time
• Share, review, and update documents with multiple people in real time.
• Use when and where you want
• SharedView is easy to use, from anywhere, at a moment's notice.

I can see this coming in useful for all sorts of ad-hoc collaboration. I'd like to know how it goes as a remote pair-programming platform as well.

Troy.