I'm one of the co-founders of PowWow. We're a lot like GoInstant — in fact their demo video does an even better job than ours does of explaining the concept to a layperson. It's interesting that while their product and ours have very similar use cases, the technology stack is completely different. They have a browser-within-the-browser, while we have an interaction layer over the OS — and we both do crazy hacks to make multiple-mouse live collaboration work. We've met the GoInstant guys, and they're an awesome team with a great product, and we're definitely fans of theirs.

That's great hacking guys. I am waiting for the Windows version, where i think you'll have a hard time escaping the "only one window has focus" dogma. Btw, if you need beta testers i am here.

It looks like a total copy of the concept/interactions to be honest. Hopefully for Powwow GoInstant hasn't patented this stuff...

Good artists copy, great artists steal perhaps?

Absolutely. GoInstant is for the web only, and is meant for tech support rather than collaboration.

I thought GoInstant was for sales mainly.