Building Collaborative Applications in Flash

ACT is testing the feasibility of building stable, robust, collaborative applications (from simple to complex) for the recently released Flash Communication Server MX (Flashcom) from Macromedia. Such applications could open up access to synchronous collaboration for organizations and individuals unable to afford current high costs of tools like Centra, Placeware, or Webex.

The following applications have been assembled so far and are available for your viewing/testing (Note: requires Flash Player 6):

Video chat (with text chat) for two participants

Video chat for four participants

Whiteboard (with audio chat)

Conference room (with text "slides", audio chat, text chat)