PowWow Features & Benefits

Experience communicating over the Internet the fun and easy way using PowWow today! The free downloadable version of PowWow includes these and many other features:

Instant messages: These instant alerts pop up like sticky notes on other users' screens. If a recipient is away from her machine or her computer is off, an optional link to her e-mail server puts the message in her e-mail system.

Buddy lists: This built-in list alerts users whenever a buddy comes online and is available.

InstaVoice: The first Internet-based instant voice messaging solution, InstaVoice enables users to record and send messages of up to one minute in length (15 Kbytes) with automatic 50:1 compression that lets voices sound natural.

Voice Chat: Talk to PowWow users worldwide for no more than the cost of your Internet connection. With PowWow's Voice Chat, you can talk via the Internet just like you would on a telephone - this virtually eliminates your long distance phone bill.

Group Chat: Participate in community discussions and interact with others in real-time via the Group Chat window. Enter and view text on-screen or use the text-to-speech option to listen to the online discussion.

Real-time point-to-multi-point communications: PowWow goes a step beyond many other chat products by being truly real-time. Community members or buddies can establish point-to-multi-point sessions that enable up to nine people to chat at once using text or voice.

Text to voice: PowWow's "robot" voice allows users to hear text as it appears in a window. The voice plays commonly used abbreviations as sounds. For example, type "LOL" ("laugh out loud") and the robot laughs. (My note: the robot is a little creepy at first, but once ya've tweaked the settings you can usually make something 'almost' human sounding...)

Web tours: This option lets a PowWow user lead a group on a Web site tour by remotely directing their Web browsers to selected pages. Participants discuss pages as they travel, enabling multiple levels of interaction simultaneously.

Bulletin Board: Different from the Group Chat window, the PowWow Bulletin Board is an area where you and other visitors to a Community can leave electronic messages or questions. PowWow Community Hosts and other users can easily respond to your message by replying with their own posting. Bulletin Boards make a great place to share information with other Community members.

White Pages: A comprehensive listing of users' personal profiles that helps users find people with common interests.

White boarding: This enables users to exchange sketches and scribbles. White boarding is also great for corporate brainstorming sessions.

Games: Play cards, checkers, dominoes, chess, backgammon and dice across the Internet.

Impressive no??