Web meeting startup Dimdim goes big with Dimdim Webinar

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.,… Continue Reading

Free online meeting tool Mikogo launches for Mac

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… Continue Reading

Scheduling startup TimeBridge adds cheap web meetings

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.

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Zimbra co-founder invests in Dimdim’s open source web meetings

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… Continue Reading

Telepresence takes off for Cisco — could there be a bigger trend in video?

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… Continue Reading

Dimdim raises $6M for free web meetings

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… Continue Reading

Dimdim launches free online meeting services

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… Continue Reading

DEMO mentions: 360Desktop, MuseStorm, DimDim, YourTrumanShow, Shoutlet

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… Continue Reading

The new video players: Kyte, DimDim

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 —… Continue Reading