Dimdim announced its open source Dimdim Eagle web meeting application yesterday, May 19, 2008. It allows anyone to share their desktop, show slides, video and documents, as well as talk, listen, chat privately, and broadcast via webcam. Those attending the Dimdim online web meeting do not need to download any software to join or participate in the meeting. The best part: it’s completely FREE!
Dimdim is a great online tool for communicating and sharing multimedia with clients, employees, colleagues, anyone, in real time– across the globe or across town. Sometimes a meeting beats emailing and a telephone conversation afterward.
Dimdim offers a free version for up to 20 attendees. Paid versions start at $99 per year (custom branding, 100 attendees). It is available for Windows and Linux.
The company is based in Boston, MA and is backed by the original investors in Skype and Hotmail.
Hosting a meeting is easy:
Here are the features you can enable:
the Options available:
Set up an account, download Dimdim Eagle and give it a try. I did and it worked great. (Note: if you want the attendees to have audio, activate the option before you invite them to the meeting. Also, when sharing the desktop, open a new tab before you navigate to a new website)
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You are always on top of new tools. I will give it a try. Lar
Thanks Lar. I would love to hear your feedback.
Are social networking sites becoming the new dating sites? Well for starters they are more socially acceptable, they have millions of users and above all they are mostly free. So RIP dating sites I think. Also, I believe that video is the next step in the natural development of the internet. Now that broadband is widely available and more importantly affordable, we will see an explosion of video enabled web 2.0 sites. Personally I cant wait!
I completely agree Larisa. YouTube provides the proof that people use and want video.