Being the first entry, I thought I'd start off with telling you what you can expect from this space:

• Updates on the SharedView product
• Requests for ideas and feedback on current features and future plans
• Posts from various members of the team on interesting topics
• Discussions on the software design and development process
• Interesting scenarios for using web collab - Our thoughts and yours on what works and what doesn't
• Your topics - suggest something in a comment and we'll consider it!

We've also recently announced our Beta2 release.  The team is very proud of the work that has gone into the release, and we're already quite busy on version 1.0. 

You can download and try it today at: http://www.sharedview.com

So what the heck is SharedView, anyways? In a nutshell, it's a fast, easy, and free way to work with a few co-workers or friends on anything on your computer.  Often this will be a document, but it can also be photos, web pages, a presentation, driving through a meeting agenda, or working on the computer itself (fixing a friend or relative's computer without having to travel to do it).

Why free, you may ask? We want people to think about new ways to work with each other, and to do that, we're removing the barriers:

• Zero cost
• Easy to install
• Always works - if you can browse the internet, you can use SharedView
• Simple to host a session - sign in with an existing Hotmail/Passport/Windows Live ID, or get one easily
• Simple to join - sign in or use a password provided by the session host
• Share your screen or send around a document with a few clicks
• Share control - let others take control of your mouse & keyboard with a click or two
• Get the heck out of the way - SharedView is a thin strip at the top of the screen, and you can minimize it if you wish. One of our tenet's is: "Your content is king" so we've worked hard to take up as little screen space as we can, while still providing a useful set of tools to control the experience.

OK, enough on the sell job, especially since I'm not even in marketing. Just try it out at your next meeting - don't bother with the projector - just share out your screen instead.  It'll change the way you work...