Cisco just released the WebEx Meeting Center for the iPhone , and it looks impressive. Very impressive. Sadly, my organization is locked into a WebEx competitor’s product so I don’t have extensive experience with the tool, but I have used WebEx to participate in vendors’ webinars. Have a look at Cisco’s video demo here , and then get the app for your iPhone (for free) in iTunes .

think that Second Life is not going to turn out to be the winner because of technical issues, e.g., firewalls. However, I think that the next generation of Second Life will displace tools like WebEx for many online events. Once you add in presence audio (you hear people close to you) and whiteboarding tools, it will make for very interesting opportunities.

Just saw this : Earlier this month, Microsoft announced it was finally adding voice capabilities to its Live Communication Server . And now Cisco is adding hosted collaboration to compete with Microsoft's hosted service known as Live Meeting . This makes me wonder what these systems will start to look like in a couple of years and whether folks like Elluminate will be able to compete.

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I'm sure that once you add presence-based audio (meaning you can hear people who are close to you) that WebEx style systems will begin to look more like second life so you can have easier break-out sessions.

Now that Second Life has audio, there is a really interesting capability to have natural break-outs during online sessions that just never seems to work well in the current batch of tools, e.g., WebEx, LiveMeeting, etc.

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