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Foil 18 The current Capabilities of Tango -I

From Tango for Distance Education and Training Today Rice University Tango Tutorial -- October 18 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Tango supports a synchronous shared event model of collaboration
Tango supports (more than) enough (over 40) applications
Core Collaboration Capabilities
  • Audio-Video Conferencing multicast between room participants
  • Text chat rooms with various tradeoffs between "coolness", ease of use etc.
  • Shared Browser (Synchronized view of Web Pages)
  • Shared Web Search (becomes shared database query)
  • Slide Show
  • White Board
  • Shared Audio and Video Players (Java Applets and link to video on demand database)

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