Synchronous Collaboration

Synchronous (closer to real-time) collaboration capabilities are starting to be developed despite the difficulties.

• Extending WWW for Synchronous Collaboration by Thane J. Frivold, Ruth E. Lang, and Martin W. Fong)
• Rendezvous: A WWW Synchronization System by Dragomir R. Radev
• Live Multimedia over HTTP by Jonathan C. Soo. Although not about synchronous collaboration, live connections are required for that. Similarly for Hello? Can you Hear Me? - Incorporating real-time audio on the Web by Stephen Uhler
• A Synchronous Collaboration Tool for World-Wide Web by Tak K Woo, Michael J Rees
• The Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory: UARC
• Interactive Hardware on the Internet mostly on WWW. Again, this is at least half the synchronous collaboration equation, though most are not sampled very frequently.
• Although not specifically for collaborative capabilities, an advanced technique for supporting interactive W3 capabilities is W3Kit.
• Beyond Hypertext: Using the WWW for Interactive Applications
• The Sociable Web project is making it possible to have synchronous, hypertext conferences as part of the contents of a Web page.
• Ubique's Virtual Places (TM) product family provides a unified communications framework offering multimedia publishing, bulletin boards and live conferencing within a single software architecture.
• Interactive Endeavors are not the same as collaborative, but close cousins.
• MOOs, MUDs, and MUSHes (Multi-User Shared Hallucination) are real-time interactive discussions set in a text-based virtual reality environment.
  • What is a MOO
  • Beginner's Guide to MOOing
  • On the Interactive Classroom has links to other MOO information.
  • There is a mailing list on MOOs and WWW: moo-www-request@maths.tcd.ie.
  • Amberyl's List of Interesting MUSHes
  • The MUD Resource Collection
  • A MOO-Based Collaborative Hypermedia System for WWW by Tom Meyer, David Blair, Suzanne Hader
  • Integrating the Two Most Exciting Internet Applications: The World-Wide Web and Multi-User Dungeons by Lee Newberg
  • MOO-WWW Links - Research Guide and Resource Information - lets you add to a list of research projects.
  • HyperMuds: Multi User Multi Modal Dialogue Systems by Stan P. van de Burgt
  • The Sprawl is a Collaborative Hyperarchical Integrated Media Environment (CHIME)
• Internet Relay Chat (IRC) FAQ
• IRC Primer
• Chats are multi-user synchronous systems that are primarily used for, what else, chatting. Among the most well known chats are the IRC and Compu$erves CB, but there are many other chat systems around the world.
• Talker is a real time chat system, or as good as can be expected on the current Web.
• VocalTec Web Service: Internet Phone
• Mobisaic: An Information System for a Mobile and Wireless Computing Environment
• Multicast Backbone on the Internet (MBONE)
• Multiple User Multicast Basic Language Exchange (MUMBLE) - a program very similar to the UNIX chat program, only the text is transmitted over multicast IP groups allowing multiple people across the Internet to join the conversation.
• Shared Mosaic supports live, interactive, view-only sessions.
• Media On Demand
• Videoconferencing groups
• Desktop Videoconferencing Products
• WebChat is not quite synchronous, but it's as close as standard HTTP allows.
• Shared Mosaic or Mosaic-sh is an extension to NCSA's WWW browser Mosaic. Using Mosaic-sh you can conduct WYSWIS (What You See is What I See) kinds of collaborations/meetings.
• An Exploration of Dynamic Documents in Netscape 1.1 using Server Push or Client Pull modes.
• VPRO's Java GameServer uses Java.
• Java Multiuser Environment
• Worlds Chat
• Global Chat
is a helper application for Web browsers that offers the first truly real-time interactive chat capability for the Web.
• wOrlds is focused on the development of a next generation computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW) framework.
• Collaboratory for Environmental and Molecular Sciences has a WebTour package which will synchronize WWW browsers, so that when a tour "guide" changes to a new page, other "tourists" will automatically be taken to that page on their browser.
• ReLaTe Project (Remote Language Teaching through Multimedia Conferencing over SuperJANET) is developing and testing video conferencing software for use in language teaching.
• WebTalk uses telnet to establish a synchronous, continuous channel.
• the Knowledge Media Institute's "Stadium" is a WWW experiment in very large scale telepresence, using Java, RealAudio, and CU-SeeME
• Como - a Java-based interactive communication, is much like Habanero.

1 ja by JASSY SINGH, 1996, Jan 12

2 Time for some new MOO links by Cameron, 1997, Apr 18

3 more info requested by jesus guajardo, 1998, Feb 16

4 Advanced Collaboration , 2004, Mar 29

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