A method permitting collaboration between a plurality of users of incompatible
hardware and/or operating system, includes steps for selectively generating predetermined
objects, text objects, active hyperlink objects, active track objects, and freehand
drawing objects, which are displayable at user-selected locations on the White
Board screen of one of the users, transmitting all generated ones of the predetermined,
the active hyperlink, the text, the active track, and the freehand drawing objects
for selective distributions to each of the other users, accumulating the predetermined,
the active hyperlink, the text, the active track, and the freehand drawing objects,
and filtering the predetermined, the active hyperlink, the text, the active track,
and the freehand drawing objects to thereby permit selective transmission of the
predetermined, the active hyperlink, the text, the active track, and the freehand
drawing objects to respective ones the other users.