At Xebia, we work quite a lot with teams distributed across the globe. In the true spirit of extreme programming, that means your pair programming buddy might very well be in a completely other timezone. In my team, Mikogo is quite a popular solution in situations like these. However, it is not always the most efficient solution. Especially if you and your team mate are working together remotely on a system neither yours nor your buddy's. Which is exactly what we are doing if we are working on our EC2 based deployments. (That basically means someone from our Dutch team working with someone in our Indian team on a system in the US.)
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