Dollar Meeting: Host your meeting free (or for "pennies/minute")

                F.A.Q.

Frequently Asked Questions:
1. What is 888Meeting.com (free)?
2. What are the key benefits 888Meeting.com (free) for me?
3. What are the key advantages of 888Meeting.com (free)?
4. What are the key features 888Meeting.com (free)?
5. What is Desktop Sharing?
6. What is Annotation?
7. What is Remote Control?
8. How does Ux calculate 888Meeting.com cost as hundred-times lower than other multipoint web-meetings?
9. How can Dollar Meeting charge hundred-times less and still cover its costs?
10. How can I start my reservation-less 888Meeting.com?
11. How can my attendees join my 888Meeting.com from Windows PCs?
12. Can I use VoIP during my 888Meeting.com?
13. Does 888Meeting.com compete with web-meeting services, e.g. WebEx or Microsoft Office Live Meeting?
14. Why does 888Meeting.com not need limited-time trial period?
15. Why does 888Meeting.com not need any subscription?
16. What are recommended technical requirements for host-PC and client-PCs for 888Meeting.com?
17. If I have additional questions, what should I do?

Q1. What is 888Meeting.com (free)?
888Meeting.com is Ux's Software-as-a-service (Saas) which allows you to share your desktop with multiple Skype / I.M. / email contacts.
888Meeting.com is also multipoint web-meeting (that you may host for free), which your multiple attendees can click your meeting-URL-link in Skype / instant-messages / emails to join from Windows PCs.

Q2. What are the key benefits of 888Meeting.com (free or for pennies/minute) for me?
The key benefits of 888Meeting.com for you are:
1. Breakthrough productivity increase for your business.
2. Allow you to avoid cost disadvantage (vis-a-vis your competitors).
3. Allow you to upgrade your Skype / I.M. / emails to multipoint desktop sharing (free or for pennies/minute).

Q3. What are the key advantages of 888Meeting.com (free or for pennies/minute)?
The key advantages of 888Meeting.com (free) compared to multipoint web-meeting services are:
1. Free (or for pennies/minute) ad hoc sub-meetings before, during or after WebEx and other webmeetings.
2. Complements WebEx, Skype / I.M. (instant messages), emails including annotations and remote control.
3. Value is US$1000/year per user, saving you upto US$100,000/year.
4. No subscription needed for "98%-rest-of-us" (who don't want to pay for subscription).
5. Participants click-to-join-meeting from Windows PC's.
6. Software-as-a-service disruptive-technology.

Q4. What are the key features 888Meeting.com (free)?
888Meeting.com turns your Windows PC into a powerful multi-party presentation and application / desktop-sharing system.
The key features include allowing you to:
- make ( Microsoft Office, etc. ) presentations (for others to view in seconds around the world),
- share your ( Microsoft Office, Internet browser, etc. ) applications/desktop with others in real time,
- text or free-hand annotations ( of your applications/desktop, to highlight a point ),
- ( granted-access ) remote control ( by attendee ) of your ( Microsoft Office, Internet browser, etc. ) application / desktop with your multiple attendees worldwide, while you use 25-party Skype free audio-conferencing.

Q5. What is Desktop Sharing?
Desktop Sharing allows you to show you attendees your entire computer desktop -- including any applications, windows, and file directories that are currently open.
In other words, host-desktop-screen-changes are viewable at multiple-attendees-desktops (around the world) in seconds.
You can:
- make presentations (e.g. PowerPoint slides),
- share several applications simultaneously (though sharing one application at-a-time will reduce clutter on your desktop, and makes it easier for your attendees to follow your meeting),
- share files, or
- share other areas of your computer, such as your file directories.

Q6. What is Annotation?
Annotation allows the host and the attendees to type or draw free-hand over host's application, window, file directory, or desktop, and replicating the typing or free-hand drawing to attendees' computers.
In other words, the host and the attendees may draw image (i.e. type or draw free-hand) over that generated by the host computer and replicate the drawn image to attendees' computers.

Q7. What is Remote Control?
Remote control allows (authorized) attendees to use host's mouse and keyboard to control the host's computer remotely.
It means that an attendee can work (such as to make presentation or share host's-application/desktop) on host's computer, as if the attendee were sitting in front of host's computer, and replicate the attendee's work (e.g. presentation or sharing host's-application) on host's computer to other computers.

Q8. How does UX calculate 888Meeting.com cost as hundred-times lower than other multipoint web-meetings?
    In 2007, a leading multipoint web-meeting service charges US$75/month/user without audio, or US$1800/year for 2-users without audio.
    Dollar Meeting is free (for upto 100-users) with Skype VoIP, and would cost hundred-times lower (for most users).

Q9. How can 888Meeting.com charge hundred-times less and still cover its costs?
    Today's leading web-meeting services have very high costs to support their own infrastructures worldwide in:
         a. hundreds of large host-servers (to duplicate features of Microsoft Windows and your PC),
         b. high-bandwidth data-communication networks (to duplicate your ISP and Internet capacity), and
         c. hundreds of employees supporting their infrastructure (to duplicate features of your ISP, Internet, Windows and your PC).

    Dollar Meeting (free or for pennies/minute) software-as-a-service (SaaS) uses:
         a. disruptive technologies (with patents-pending worldwide),
         b. software-as-a-service allowing very low overhead and production costs (to pass-on savings to you),
         c. features of Windows, your high-performance PC, and your network (e.g. your ISP and Internet) access
     to provide comparable key features: "application/desktop-sharing, annotations and remote-control" (at hundred-times lower cost) as other web-meeting services.

Q10. How can I start my reservation-less 888Meeting.com?
     Please (i) visit http://www.888Meeting.com,
                (ii) at the DollarMeeting.html webpage, enter your email address, and
               (iii) click "Start Meeting!" button to start your Dollar Meeting.
     You may use your favorite messaging software (AOL, Google, Microsoft, Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, emails, etc.)
     to instant-message or email your meeting-URL-link** to your attendees who click to join your 888Meeting.com.
     For more help, you may click to download start_meeting_tips.pdf.

Q11. How can my attendees join my 888Meeting.com from Windows PCs?
    You may use your favorite messaging software (AOL, Google, Microsoft, Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, emails, etc.) to instant-
    message or email your attendees who click your meeting-URL-link** to join your 888Meeting.com from Windows PCs.

Q12. C an I use VoIP during my 888Meeting.com?
    You may use VoIP (or regular phone conferencing using your PBX) with 888Meeting.com:
        o free 25-party-Skype and free 100-party-Skypecasts audio-conferencing (with 200+ millions Skype users) or
        o use your PBX conference-feature.

Q13. Does 888Meeting.com compete with web-meeting services, e.g. WebEx or Microsoft Office Live Meeting?
    Dollar Meeting (free or for pennies/minute):
       a. is for ad hoc multipoint collaborative application/desktop-sharing including annotation and remote-control, and
       b. is complementary* (and not a competitor) to WebEx, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, other web-meeting services,
           videoconferencing products, Skype, all instant messaging software and emails . . . by allowing free (or pennies/minute) ad-hoc
           sub-meetings before, during, and after WebEx, etc. meetings.

Q14. Why does 888Meeting.com not need limited-time trial period?
    888Meeting.com is free for upto 100-users meeting, so you may use it any time (and don't need registration or a limited-time trial period).

Q15. Why does 888Meeting.com not need any subscription?
    A subscription typically require you to pay even if you're not using the service.
    888Meeting.com does not need any subscription so that most users can use free, saving you upto US$100,000 per year (compared to leading vendors).

Q16. What are recommended technical requirements for host-PC and client-PCs for 888Meeting.com?
    888Meeting.com supports PCs running Windows 2000/XP/Vista operating systems.
    For host-PC, you are highly recommended to:
       a.. use a high-performance PC (Pentium III / 450MHz CPU or higher, with 256MBytes of memory or more).
       b. access the Internet via high-bandwidth broadband (e.g. DSL, cable, T1 line), and
       c. (your host-PC) with unique Internet-accessible IP-address (available with many broadband services), i.e. not on a private LAN
           network with following non-Internet-accessible IP-addresses (and your host-PC should not have one of the following
           non-Internet-accessible IP-addresses):
              (i) 10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255
             (ii) 172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255
             (iii) 192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255
    Your participants may use Windows 2000/XP/Vista PCs, dial-up lines or broadband (recommended) to attend your Dollar Meeting.

Q17. If I have additional questions, what should I do?
    Online help is included with 888Meeting.com host-GUI, which may answer your other questions.
    Please visit 888Meeting.com User-Forum (where you may post your questions to get help from others) at URL:
    http://Forum.888Meeting.com
    Seeing is believing. Please view the online demo .
    Using the 888Meeting.com may answer many of your remaining questions. You may also download the Start Meeting Tips where you may follow their links to guides to hosting / joining Dollar Meeting.
    For general questions on multipoint web-meeting, you may visit WebEx website, or attend its live demo.

*       888Meeting.com helps (at hundred-times lower cost, saving you upto US$100,000 per year to
           -- expand vastly the multipoint (ad hoc) meeting market, and
           -- hugely increase number of potential web-meeting users by converting non-users to users and benefiting all (WebEx, etc.).
**     Example of 888Meeting.com-URL-link: "http://ActiveX.888Meeting.com/ux/?id=7023262" in your Skpye / instant-messages / emails that your attendees click to join your meeting.

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