Web meeting startup Dimdim goes big with Dimdim Webinar
Dimdim, the startup taking on established web meeting providers with its low cost, open source meeting service, said today that it’s adding a service for webinars, big online events that could end up being quite lucrative for both the event host and Dimdim.
The Boston, Mass., company will allow customers to host online events with up to 1,000 attendees. Dimdim chief executive DD Ganguly has said the company is “democratizing” web meetings by making them available… Continue Reading
Free online meeting tool Mikogo launches for Mac
Mikogo, maker of the online meeting tool of same name, announced today the release of a free, public version that works across platforms, now including Mac. The software lets up to 10 meeting participants share a screen over the web during a presentation.
A group of colleagues can virtually huddle around one screen to edit a project collaboratively from their separate desks, or a single user can conduct a product demonstration as the rest of the… Continue Reading
Scheduling startup TimeBridge adds cheap web meetings
The established players in web conferencing better look out — scheduling startup TimeBridge is launching a new conferencing service that it says can save companies around 80 percent of what they would have paid for established products like Cisco’s WebEx and Citrix’s GoToMeeting.
The Berkeley, Calif. startup already has 300,000 users for its service, which is particularly useful because it integrates with existing calendar products like Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar and Apple iCal. Chief executive Yori… Continue Reading
Zimbra co-founder invests in Dimdim’s open source web meetings
Satish Dharmaraj, the co-founder and chief executive of Yahoo-owned communication company Zimbra, has made a personal investment in web meeting startup Dimdim.
Dharmaraj says he put his money into Dimdim because its technology complements Zimbra’s. Both offer open source software for different aspects of collaboration. Zimbra — which Dharmaraj sold to Yahoo for $350 million last year, and which he continues to lead from within Yahoo — offers a desktop client that incorporates email, documents, task… Continue Reading
Telepresence takes off for Cisco — could there be a bigger trend in video?
High oil prices have resonated through the economy at every level, and business travel is no exception. Realizing as much, I recently checked in with Cisco to see how well their telepresence product is selling.
Telepresence, for those who haven’t encountered it, is “a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present … at a location other than their true location,” at least according to Wikipedia. For Cisco, which took… Continue Reading
Dimdim raises $6M for free web meetings
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Dimdim, the free, open-source web meeting company, has raised $6 million in a second round of funding.
The concept is pretty simple — like WebEx, but free. Dimdim offers all the basic tools that you’d expect from a web meeting service, including a collaborative whiteboard, desktop sharing, audio and video. It doesn’t have too many bells and whistles, and some of the technical kinks still need to be worked out; I’ve run into a few display… Continue Reading
Dimdim launches free online meeting services
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Dimdim, the (mostly) free, open source competitor to online meeting companies WebEx and GoToMeeting, is launching its service in public testing mode today.
Chief Marketing Officer Steve Chazin gave me a demonstration of Dimdim’s free service, and it has the basic functions that you’d want for an online meeting: a collaborative whiteboard, desktop sharing, slideshows and audio and video. The video and audio quality aren’t top-notch, but they work. The selling point, of course, isn’t the… Continue Reading
DEMO mentions: 360Desktop, MuseStorm, DimDim, YourTrumanShow, Shoutlet
Yesterday, we reported the hightlights of the latest DEMO conference, writing stories about the most significant technologies being announced.
They included ThePudding.com (our coverage), MyQuire (our coverage), Tubes (our coverage), Glam’s Digg feature (our coverage), Fluid Innovation (our coverage), CashView (our coverage), Vyro-Games (our coverage), LiveMocha (our coverage) and MetaRadar (our coverage) and more (our coverage).
Here’s a review of a few other companies and technologies that we didn’t get to, but which are worth a mention:… Continue Reading
The new video players: Kyte, DimDim
There are a ton of “video player” companies out there, and they’re starting to blur.
It takes a lot to impress these days. A video player in 2007 should be able to upload any video file — from your desktop or from the Web — and then have it run from any Website from a widget.
Just when we thought innovation was running out, we hear about Kyte, a video player that allows live video and… Continue Reading