On-line Conferencing for Intranets and the Internet PictureTalk users communicate in virtual meetings, which they access from the Meeting Center . Each user in a meeting runs a copy of PictureTalk Communicator, PictureTalk's free client application for PCs or Macs or UNIX workstations or Java devices . PictureTalk Communicator is launched by the user's web browser when the user clicks on the meeting's name on a web page listing current meetings. Users in a meeting can take turns presenting.
Users can also communicate through a chat window.
The figure below shows four users participating in a virtual meeting. One user is presenting. Three users are attending. To create a virtual meeting, a user fills out a simple form at the PictureTalk Conference Server's Meeting Center . To join a meeting, a user clicks on the meeting's name.