TimeBridge wants to make web meetings less frustrating
A startup called TimeBridge may have named itself after its scheduling tool, but this year it has focused a lot of energy on web meetings. TimeBridge unveiled a cheap meeting service in March, and now it’s releasing new features that should make the process more efficient and less frustrating.
Now, web meetings are definitely useful — I often do several a day with companies I intend to cover at VentureBeat. But those meetings also have their… Continue Reading
TimeBridge raises $5M to make scheduling business meetings easier
TimeBridge, a startup that helps coordinate business meetings, announced it has raised $5 million in a second round of funding.
The company’s key idea is that it doesn’t want to replace the calendar you already use; instead it wants to connect your calendar with everyone else’s schedule, regardless of what software they’re using. TimeBridge integrates with products like Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, and Apple iCal. That should mean more schedule sharing and automatic calendar updates, with… 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
TimeBridge takes the headache out of group meetings
TimeBridge, one of the many startups that wants to help you schedule meetings, is now making it even easier to coordinate those meetings within a company, team, or other group. In fact, TimeBridge says it’s the first web scheduling service to add a “group” feature.
Chief executive Yori Nelken says the new feature was based on user activity and demand. People were trying to form groups anyway, so TimeBridge decided “to just build it into the… Continue Reading
Timebridge launches scheduling tool for professionals
Two-and-a-half year old startup TimeBridge is launching its flagship scheduling product today, and it’s a product that shines with simplicity.
Plenty of internet startups have made a business out of saving time for busy professionals. TimeBridge’s niche is cutting down the time it takes to schedule meetings. It’s product, Personal Scheduling Manager, works on reaching consensus through a straightforward visual interface, a clear improvement over the process of emailing back and forth between all a meeting’s… Continue Reading
Renkoo launches event service — in time to schedule holiday cocktails
Renkoo, a Redwood City start-up that has worked in secrecy for a year on a more interactive version of Evite’s event service, has launched.
Evite is the big player in this industry. Renkoo pitches itself as “Evite done right,” seeking to incorporate Web 2.0 features. It has been testing its product with a select group of users for months. Several other start-ups are in the invitation/event management race, including the trio in San Francisco: Skobee, Socializr… Continue Reading
Timebridge raises $6M for calendar-scheduling product
Mayfield and Norwest are the backers of Timebridge.
See our story on Timebridge here.
MySpace founders shortchanged, Yahoo’s binge over, Timebridge, Mashery, FON, Workday
The round-up of crucial stuff in Silicon Valley:
Did MySpace’s Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson get shortchanged? — VentureBeat has heard that MySpace, the biggest success of the Web 2.0 wave so far, in terms of users, wasn’t such a great a hit for the co-founders. Word is, Chris DeWolfe ended up with a mere $5 million, even though the company was sold as part of Intermix for $580 million. We haven’t been able to confirm this… Continue Reading