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September 25, 2007
dimdim Announces Free Web Meeting Service
By Tim Gray TMCnet Web Editor
Web meeting company dimdim has launched the world’s first free Web meeting service based on an open source platform at the DEMOfall 07.
The San Diego-based company’s dimdim browser-based web 2.0 service allows users to share their desktop, show slides, talk, listen, chat, and broadcast via webcam.
Dimdim is a hosted service available for free and can be used in any number of settings ranging from small gatherings to seminars with hundreds of attendees.
DD Ganguly, CEO and co-founder of dimdim, said the service differs from first generation Web meeting solutions that were initially expensive, difficult to implement and hard to customize.
”dimdim provides a business-class quality Web meeting service that is free to consumers and extremely easy to use, as there is no software to download or maintain," said Ganguly. "We founded dimdim to enable anyone with a browser the opportunity to create their own Web meeting experience and collaborate freely and easily on a completely open platform."
The browser-based hosted service can accommodate meetings of any size, said Ganguly, and features include audio conferencing, broadcast webcam, slides, desktop sharing, and chat — with no client-side software requirement.
Dimdim has integrated the open source software applications with its own open source software, according to the company. IT has also integrateed, among other technologies, software for course management, used by universities, schools, companies and independent teachers around the world.
dimdim utilizes Amazon's Elastic ComputeCloud, providing dimdim users with the same sophisticated and scaleable infrastructure used by Amazon.com (News - Alert). Purely via word-of-mouth amongst the open source community, dimdim has already been downloaded more than 120,000 times.
Tim Gray is a Web Editor for TMCnet, covering news in the IP
communications, call center and customer relationship management industries. To see more of his articles, please visit Tim Gray’s columnist page.
The San Diego-based company’s dimdim browser-based web 2.0 service allows users to share their desktop, show slides, talk, listen, chat, and broadcast via webcam.
Dimdim is a hosted service available for free and can be used in any number of settings ranging from small gatherings to seminars with hundreds of attendees.
DD Ganguly, CEO and co-founder of dimdim, said the service differs from first generation Web meeting solutions that were initially expensive, difficult to implement and hard to customize.
”dimdim provides a business-class quality Web meeting service that is free to consumers and extremely easy to use, as there is no software to download or maintain," said Ganguly. "We founded dimdim to enable anyone with a browser the opportunity to create their own Web meeting experience and collaborate freely and easily on a completely open platform."
The browser-based hosted service can accommodate meetings of any size, said Ganguly, and features include audio conferencing, broadcast webcam, slides, desktop sharing, and chat — with no client-side software requirement.
Dimdim has integrated the open source software applications with its own open source software, according to the company. IT has also integrateed, among other technologies, software for course management, used by universities, schools, companies and independent teachers around the world.
dimdim utilizes Amazon's Elastic ComputeCloud, providing dimdim users with the same sophisticated and scaleable infrastructure used by Amazon.com (News - Alert). Purely via word-of-mouth amongst the open source community, dimdim has already been downloaded more than 120,000 times.
Tim Gray is a Web Editor for TMCnet, covering news in the IP
communications, call center and customer relationship management industries. To see more of his articles, please visit Tim Gray’s columnist page.
