Built-in videoconferencing is an almost-standard feature in Web conferencing services these days-it's even in SlideShare's free Zipcast. It has, however, been missing from one of the biggest names in the business: Citrix's GoToMeeting. But Citrix is announcing today that HDFaces, the video feature it revealed last October is going live after a bit of a delay. The company told me about the new feature last week in an appropriate way: it let me participate in a GoToMeeting session that used it. (That's three folks from Citrix and me in the screenshot below.) Even though I was on so-so hotel Wi-Fi, it worked well.
Starting today, HDFaces will be included at no extra charge as part of a standard GoToMeeting account, which costs $49 a month or $468 a year for unlimited meetings. (That's for the host-it doesn't cost anything to attend.) Archrival Webex already has videoconferencing in both its browser-based version and its iPad application: Citrix says it intends to bring the video feature to its mobile apps in the future.
This story, "GoToMeeting Gets Videoconferencing" was originally published by Technologizer.