Vmukti is an interesting mashup of web2.0 concepts (i.e. mashups) with open source and P2P/collaboration suite.

VMukti is a Free, multi-point total communications, collaboration and conferencing engine with built-in support for access to platform features through Personal Customizable Web Interface, Widgets for 3rd party websites, Desktops, and PSTN/ Mobile/ IP Phones.
The core Platform Features Include: Audio/ Telephony, Multipoint Video, Chat, File Search, Whiteboard, File-sharing, Presentation, Remote Monitoring & Controlling, Co-authoring, CRM, and more.

VMukti 1.x offers built in widgets for categories like

communication, collaboration (Video, Audio, Telephony, Chat and more), vertical markets (Call center, tele-education) and more. Current release offer built in RIA Web widgets for vertical market call center industry including but not limited to enterprise p2p predictive dialer, dynamic script, dynamic leads & crm, live p2p reports, p2p relational database..

VMukti’s open source nature makes it an extended platform that can be consumed in different ways:

• A Simple Distributed VOIP Unified Communication PBX Network Software
• A Rich Media Collaboration enabled Social Networking Software
• A P2P Based Video Conferencing/ Web Meeting Platform
• A Mashable Communication Platform that allows extending by development of 3rd party Widgets

Check out their sourceforge project.

VMukti is incubated in IIM -A and has raised $200K from premier UK angel firm and IIM-Ahmedabad.

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