Co-browsing is the ability to share a web browser with a remote user, and be able to have that user both see what you’re doing and to drive your web browser so you can see what they’re doing. Obviously you only want to do this with someone you trust, but the implications for distance students are great. Most of the virtual reference packages have this capability, but from what I understand they work to varying degrees of success. Right about this time last year I started fiddling with a service called Jybe, and it worked fairly well, though required a toolbar to be installed by both users, and they haven’t updated that toolbar for Firefox 1.5, so I haven’t played with it in a while.

desktop sharing as a skype plugin sounds great for tech supporting relatives, but they implement the viewer as an applet. how stupid is that? they could piggyback on the nice fw-evading skype network, but no, applets.

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