 | 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Buddy lists:
| This built-in list alerts users whenever a buddy comes online and is available. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| White Pages:
| A comprehensive listing of users' personal profiles that helps users find people with
common interests. |
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| White boarding:
| This enables users to exchange sketches and scribbles. |
| White boarding is also great for corporate brainstorming sessions. |
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| Games:
| Play
| cards, |
| checkers, |
| dominoes, |
| chess, |
| backgammon |
| dice |
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| across the Internet. |
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