Comments on: Drawing Inspiration: Collaborative Whiteboard Tools -Part 1

By: AlexW

AlexW — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:49:51 +0000

That’s a fair enough call, Lisa. We’ve used this tool a bit to decide on rough Ad layouts between people at different sites — generally with Skype. Skype has a paid sketchpad product called talkandwrite.com, but it’s no more impressive. Do you got a preferred collaborative sketch type tool?

By: Lisa Egan

Lisa Egan — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:36:09 +0000

My thoughts reflect those of ‘me’ above. After I tried out the product, I went back to check the creds of the author and wondered what alliance there is between SitePoint and GE. That really wasn’t impressive, IMHO. Nice blog though, just didn’t concur with your estimation of the product.

By: elated

elated — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:42:43 +0000

Exactly why GE felt compelled to build and release it is a mystery

It might have something to do with their terms & conditions:

5. You acknowledge that the Drawings created on the Site will be the property of GE, and you agree that all copyrights and other intellectual property rights in the Drawings are assigned to GE.

That certainly put me off using it! :(

By: busy

busy — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:03:27 +0000

Soon to come – generic virtual whiteboard ink-refill kits?

By: WarpNacelle

WarpNacelle — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 08:40:10 +0000

Its to conserve memory on the server

Ah hah! Thank you. That makes sense.

By: M.Mahgoub

M.Mahgoub — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:25:50 +0000

Its to conserve memory on the server—you can continue drawing, but the ink you drew at the beginning gets erased as you go. More than enough to work with though.

By: Robin Good

Robin Good — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:26:56 +0000

If you are seriously interested in online live whiteboarding and annotation tools check out this nifty mini-guide:
http://www.kolabora.com/news/2006/11/02/whiteboarding_tools_and_technology_a.htm

By: asimov

asimov — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:23:27 +0000

Its to conserve memory on the server — you can continue drawing, but the ink you drew at the beginning gets erased as you go. More than enough to work with though.

By: AlexW

AlexW — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:24:08 +0000

Neat, but honestly, what the heck is the point of having the pens be able to run out of ink? I hope they designed that feature in their spare time and not on the clock.

Perhaps they had ideas of charging for ink refills?

Still, I haven’t actually run out of ink so far.

By: WarpNacelle

WarpNacelle — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:02:35 +0000

Neat, but honestly, what the heck is the point of having the pens be able to run out of ink? I hope they designed that feature in their spare time and not on the clock.