With companies and personnel being dispersed across the globe, it's a miracle anything gets done...ever. In order to communicate certain points, often one needs to be able to physically show someone with a pen and paper what an idea looks like. However, it can often be horrifically difficult to get the right people in the right room at the same time. Twiddla provides a space for detailed meetings and brainstorms to happen regardless of location.
Twiddla is a virtual whiteboard and meeting room that allows you to draw, load web pages for others to view, and voice chat- all asynchronously and in real-time. If used right, you can almost accomplish everything you normally would in a meeting that's face-to-face.
Check out the walkthrough (direct link to video):
| How functional is the app? | 8 |
| How intuitive is it to use? | 8 |
| How simple is the design? | 8 |
| How innovative is the app? | 8 |
| Overall | 8 |
I feel like this app is only three-quarters of the way there. Excellent idea, however, the execution is somewhat half-baked. The chat system could be more robust, the drawing portion should be vastly improved and be easier to illustrate points, they should have a large number of stock images on hand, and a user should be able to download the full whiteboard that you have spent time creating to your own machine, not just to your Twiddla dashboard.
I think they've added some nice functionality since launch, but haven't cleaned up and debugged fully. I had some problems just adding in a simple text box. Also, as popular as AJAX and DHTML is, support should be provided for this while viewing a loaded website.
But, I don't know of many other sites out there that supply this sort of functionality, so for what it's worth, this app is damn good.
Do you think this would be a viable replacement for a face-to-face meeting?
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