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Add Screen Sharing To Your Site With the Screenleap API

By Screenleap on September 19, 2012 in Screenleap

At Screenleap, we pride ourselves on making it free and easy to share your screen in seconds. No installation is required to view, so your viewers are literally a single click away from seeing your screen. And with the release of our Gmail extension this summer, you can start a screen share without leaving your inbox.

Introducing the Screen Sharing API

We’re excited to announce that you can now add screen sharing to your own applications using our new screen-sharing-as-a-service API. True to our mission of making screen-sharing easy and affordable for everyone, the API is competitively priced. We offer all developers 5 free hours of screen sharing each month, and charge just 1¢/min after that — that’s less than $1 per hour, no matter how many viewers you have.

Getting up and running with Screenleap is a breeze. The API Overview will walk you through the process of creating your own account and adding screen sharing to your site. You can have a basic implementation running in a matter of minutes. Screenleap’s API can be white-labeled and we will be releasing additional customization options soon.

Check out some cool usage of the Screenleap API from our pilot:

Procore‘s cloud-based construction project management software is used on thousands of projects around the globe. Procore provides seamless collaboration among large, diverse teams, from office managers to architects to on-site construction managers, and everyone in between. The Screenleap API facilitates even faster collaboration by effectively integrating screen sharing into Procore’s cloud-based construction software application. Procore takes pride in listening to its clients: they asked for faster collaboration and that is exactly what the Screenleap API integration achieves.

Using the Screenleap API will give us a significant competitive advantage.

LiveNinja is an online platform that enables experts – in just about anything – to offer consultation through live video chat. Often, the most effective way to teach others is to demonstrate with tools from your own computer. With the Screenleap API, LiveNinja was able to quickly integrate screen sharing into their site, so their ninjas will soon be able to bring their consulting to a whole new level.

The screenleap implementation works exceptionally well!

Medi-Tec creates medical software solutions, and they pride themselves on quality customer support. They integrated screen sharing through the Screenleap API in order to better support customers. They can now instantly demonstrate solutions or have customers demonstrate support issues, all through their existing website.

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Screenleap for Gmail Plugin – Share Your Screen Instantly From Within Gmail

By Screenleap on July 16, 2012 in Screenleap

When Gmail launched in 2004 serious users of email used desktop applications such as Outlook and Eurdora, and most thought of web-based email as as a toy. But Gmail’s embrace of the web interface, universal accessibility, and free service make it a preferred email client for more than 350 million users, including 5,000+ enterprise customers who sign up every day (Source: Google Investor Relations 2012).

Screenleap’s product takes a similar approach, moving screen sharing out of the desktop, and into the browser, offering universal accessibility across desktop, laptop, and mobile devices, and providing a free basic service for anyone to use.

The average Internet user spends 2.5 hours per day on email and most Screenleap users send links as their primary means of notifying viewers. Since our goal is make screen sharing as easy as possible, we built a Gmail plugin that lets your share your screen instantly from within Gmail. When designing this plugin, we drew inspiration from other Gmail plugins such as Rapportive and Boomerang that increase productivity and enable you to have richer email experiences. Rapportive surfaces contact profile information and Boomerang is an email scheduling service.

It’s with great pleasure that we announce Screenleap for Gmail™, a free plugin which makes Gmail users’ time more efficient when they need to share their screens. The Screenleap for Gmail™ Plugin is available to Google Chrome users in the Chrome Web Store and to Firefox and Safari users as a download from the Screenleap web site.

Once installed, Gmail users don’t even have to leave their inbox to share their screen.

Click the “Compose” button from your inbox to begin a new email. Click the “Share screen” button to start a new screen share and your email will be automatically populated with the share link that you can send to your viewers. This is ideal when your viewers are not logged in to Gmail or don’t have a Gmail account.

When your viewer is logged in to Gmail and is already a Gmail contact of yours, you can share your screen by moving your mouse over the viewer’s name and clicking the screen share icon in the contact profile that appears.

Clicking screen share icon in the contact profile initiates a screen share and inserts the share link into the Google Chat window for you to send to them. All the viewer has to do is click on the link to start viewing your screen.

You can also initiate a screen share with someone you are already chatting with by clicking the screen share icon in the chat window. Your chat window will automatically be populated with the share link.

If you haven’t already, please install the Screenleap for Gmail™ Plugin for Google Chrome users in the Chrome Web Store and Firefox and Safari users as a download from the Screenleap web site.

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New Office, Performance Improvements, and Gmail Login

By Screenleap on June 6, 2012 in Screenleap

Our blog has been a little quiet the last few weeks but it doesn’t mean we haven’t been busy. We have been hard at work on several things:
1. We moved into our new office at the Founders Den in the South Park area of San Francisco (right next to the ballpark). If you are ever in the neighborhood, please stop by and say hello!
2. We have been hard at work improving the performance of Screenleap.
3. We have been working on a lot of features that we will be rolling out in the next few weeks.

Performance Improvements

We have made a number of performance improvements to our screen sharing tool over the last few weeks. Users on modern web browsers should see a significant speed improvement and a decrease in latency. Latency is the time between when you see something on your screen and when your viewers see the same thing on their screen. Because all screen sessions have to go through our servers, there is an upper limit on how much we can reduce the latency but our goals is to reduce the latency to under four seconds for people on decent Internet connections. Chrome users will notice the greatest performance improvement as we were able to take advantage of Chrome’s fast JavaScript interpreter as well as its support for the latest HTML5 features to really rev up your screen sharing speed. We have more improvements planned for this coming month so stay tuned.

Gmail Login

If you use Gmail, you can now login into Screenleap using your Gmail account login. To do so click the “Sign in with Google” link on the login page. If it is your first time logging in with your Gmail account, you will be asked to grant permission to share your email address and other basic information. You can then use the Gmail login to access to your Screenleap account. If you already have a Screenleap account that you have registered using your Gmail address, you can sign in using the Gmail login feature and your account will be linked.

Login to Screenleap with your Google account

Upcoming Feature

While it’s convenient to be able to login into Screenleap using your Gmail account, we think it would be even more convenient to be able to screen share directly from your Gmail account. Stay tuned as we will be sharing more info about this exciting new feature in the next few weeks!

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