AnyMeeting has overhauled the user interface of its Web conferencing service to make it easier to navigate. The Huntington Beach, Calif.-based company launched the upgrade out of beta on Friday.
One of the most notable new features is support for up to six-person video conferencing. If the meeting involves a presentation, than the screen automatically resizes the participants' windows, so everything fits.
All the conference controls available to the meeting administrator have been placed in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. In the previous UI, controls were spread about, making them more difficult to find.
The overhaul includes changes under the covers that make sharing documents and presentations faster, said Damian Raffele, vice president of marketing for AnyMeeting.
AnyMeeting's browser-based service is free to the user. The company makes money by selling ads that run along the right side of the screen. For people who don't mind getting a product pitch, AnyMeeting doesn't carry any financial risk.
Administrators can record meetings and share them later by broadcasting a link to AnyMeeting, which hosts the recordings.
The refresh comes two months after the company integrated PayPal into AnyMeeting's webinar service. Through the online payment company, people can charge attendees a flat fee. Event organizers need a PayPal merchant account, and AnyMeeting and PayPal deduct a fee for each ticket sold. Webinars have a maximum of 200 attendees.
AnyMeeting competes with several paid Web conferencing services, including GoToWebinar and GoToMeeting, both owned by Citrix Systems, and Cisco-owned WebEx.
