10 September 2009
This is a collection of small posts that don't warrent their own single article, so I'll add 2 or 3 depending on the length of them into a series that I'll call 'Useful Mashup'

Teleconferencing on the sort of cheap

Ok so there are free options out there like skype, MSN etc… and between 2 maybe even 3 people that can work fine, but what about all those annoying things that go wrong.

Someone’s connection breaks, so you have to wait until they come back

You are all trying to access things on the internet at the same time as talking so the line quality gets really bad

You mic is picking up speaker sound and echoing everything back

That’s just to name a few.

So what is the option I’m putting on the table, well if you want a simple way to have a teleconference and don’t mind paying a little bit of cash to do it you might want to check out http://www.powwownow.co.uk it’s a pay as you go teleconferencing service

I’ve used it a few times now and it works quite well, but the simplicity of this is great all you need is a landline the phone number and the pin number and that’s it.

If anyone knows of any alternatives please let me know, I would love to hear about them!

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