Collecta is an actual real-time tool and does not include the results even if they have been posted just a minute before your search. You also have an option to pause your searching if you are getting too many results.

Features:

• Real-time search engine.
• See what’s hot on the web right now.
• Narrow your search to just photos, stories or comments.
• Keep track of your search history.

Check out Collecta @ www.collecta.com (by Tehseen from Ijaar.com)

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How it works?

1. Sign up with the site for free
2. Download the service to your mobile phone
3. You must see a new application in your phone now
4. Open it and wait as it gets connected.
5. Once it’s connected, you are ready to go now.
6. Ask your friends to visit your qik page. Sit back and have fun.

Features

• Streaming real time video from your cell phone.
• Easy to use and good quality (provided your data connection is fast enough).
• Supports many mobile phones, see full list here.
• Share videos with everyone or make them available only to certain people.
• Join groups and communicate with people of similar interests.
• Qik is free, however cellphone provider charges might apply.
• Recommended only for users on unlimited (or very cheap) data plan.

Check out Qik @ www.qik.com (Contributed by Venkatesh)

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Features

• Upload and store up to five Powerpoint presentations.
• Manage and schedule presentations from your Slidelive account.
• Host live presentations and invite others to join, regardless of their location.
• Share live Powerpoint presentations with up to hundred people simultaneously.
• Attend someone else’s live presentation.
• Keep a history of all prresentations you have seen.
• Resize presentation window to any size you like.
• Share stored presentations with others or keep them private.
• Allow participants to download presentation document to their computers.

Check out Slidelive @ www.slidelive.com

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CoverItLive Features

• Post real-time text commentary, add polls, instantly embed Youtube videos, images from Google, publish ads, etc.
• Viewers can ask questions and vote on polls in real-time.
• Once your live blog is complete, the embedded Viewer Window instantly converts itself into an Instant Replay. If some of the readers missed it live they can always read the live blog later (see below).
• Readers are not required to download anything to watch your live blog.
• For liveblog publishers: To be able to use CoveritLive you must have either IE (ver. 6 or higher) or Firefox (ver. 2 or higher) browser.

CoverItLive – MakeUseOf test

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ooVoo: “… More expressive face-to-face conversations come alive with high-quality video and audio, making mere talk, email or chat a thing of the past.”

ooVoo Features

• Live Video Conversations: Talk one-to-one or with up to 6 people at the same time.
• Send voice, video or text-messages to your contacts.
• Send up to 20 files at once to as many contacts as you want. Maximum single file size is restricted to 25 MB.
• Import contacts from your email address book. Share your contacts with other friends.
• Keep detailed call history (i.e missed calls, incoming calls, outgoing calls, etc.)
• Flexible privacy control features.
• Supported Platforms: Windows, Mac (coming soon).
• Broadband connection (Cable, DSL etc..) required.

ooVoo Promo video:

Some random video (with ooVoo in action):

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Ustream.tv Features

• Broadcast live video shows. Alternatively, you can record and store your broadcasts online.
• Add viewer chat rooms next to your live broadcasts.
• Embed your live/recorded shows on your blog or profile.
• Browse shows created by others (both live and recorded ones): by most viewed, by highest rated, by alphabet, by tags, etc.

Ustream.tv review (by Netscoop)

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Features:

• ‘Live’ animation: highly interactive animation will be automatically uploaded following each delivery, so you can see a sort of ‘live’ action replay
• Links to the country sites to see cricket action for specific countries
• Constantly updated cricket news on the home-page

Visit: Cricinfo

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