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The best venue for scheduling a business meeting might be as close as your desktop. So says Raindance Communications, which recently released Raindance Meeting Edition, a software application designed to make meeting across cyberspace as simple as shaking hands.
The software is the winner of the Denver Business Journal's Most Innovative New Product Award. The company said Raindance Meeting Edition integrates Web, audio and desktop videoconferencing to a higher level of sophistication than previous industry offerings but with a lower level of anxiety and frustration for users.
"To be frank, in the past Web conferencing has been hard to use," said Todd Vernon, co-founder of Raindance and chief technology officer. "You'd be instructed to go to a Web site and enter an ID and then dial another number on the phone and enter another ID. It would take 10 minutes to pull the technology together to have a meeting."
Vernon and his team weren't going to wait for another company to create the current...