Dimdim, an open source company that produces software for online meetings, has raised $6 million in a Series B funding round led by Index Ventures, Nexus India Capital, and Draper Richards. This round brings Dimdim’s total funding to about $9 million.
We originally wrote about Dimdim in Fall 2006, when the company released an alpha version of its web meeting software. Since its public launch in Fall 2007, Dimdim claims to have had 500,000 users worldwide. Earlier this year Dimdim introduced a hosted version of its web meeting software that allows companies to host meetings on Dimdim servers “in the cloud”.
Dimdim sees competition from sites that include GoToMeeting and WebEx.
how do they rise so much money ?
Nath
http://www.themostpowerfulcompany.com
Congrats to Dim Dim - well deserved.
yep…fabulous software piece they have made!!
quite amazing!!
suresh
http://applicationsdba.blogspot.com
kind of an unfortunate name, no?
how does open source companies business model work?
We have been the pioneers in Free/Online Web Meetings since 2004.
http://www.meetingflex.com
Free Online Web Meeting Solution
It’s a good idea.
Thanks for the great mention. We’re delighted to have raised this round - especially during tough economic conditions. This really underscores the value of free, open alternatives to traditional meetings and we’re super excited about the future of this space and Dimdim. Don’t forget, you can sign up here and begin hosting your own Dimdim Web Meetings - with up to 20 people at a time - absolutely free. No download required for attendees or Mac users.
“Dimdim Plug-in is required to share desktop screen. (Currently Windows only)”
Lame. Super lame. I’ll stick with http://www.yuuguu.com
zm, the tiny plug-in is required ONLY to share desktop. You can do everything else, including multi-way audio/video broadcast, PPT/PDF sharing, chat, whiteboard etc with no plug-in at all. And our next release will add Mac screensharing, recording, multiple presenters, private meetings and more…
BTW, Yuuguu requires a desktop app…
Somebody suggest them to make the plugin using a signed java applet…then they can work on all platforms..and not just windows..
inspite of such a huge drawback..the vcs are pumping money into them…amazing.
where has common-sense gone..
http://www.meetingflex.com
Free Web Meeting
This is going to be a sweet discussion. I look forward to watching it live on the web, if its offered. Whoever wins this mobile platform war will be the next Microsoft as they were to the desktop OS, but for the mobile phone. Mobile will become the most valuable internet entity within the next 5-6 years, surpassing desktop based computing and surfing…. http://www.readtheanswer.com/index.php?RTA=web2
@Steve: Yuuguu does require a desktop app to broadcast, but thats not much different than a browser plugin. As a presenter, I’m totally fine with downloading an app, as long as it works seamlessly for my attendees.
I look forward to your next release. But in the mac world, I think Yuuguu has you beat at the moment.
Actually zm, a browser plugin doesn’t require me to login as Admin, while an exe does. Big difference in an office setting.
zm, let me know if you are interested in beta testing Dimdim 4.0 for Mac. We’re almost ready to release but we could use good testers. Just read this http://dimdim.typepad.com/dimd.....c-use.html
This is a very good service. I was surprised in a good way with Dimdim’s features. And yes, the name sounds strange but it is really catchy.
Kudos for their product and good luck with using the money
They might think about using Red5 instead of Adobe Flash Server.
What a bloody design rip-off of the Apple website? Didn’t anyone else spot that?
Hi ZM, Steve,
It’ Neil here (Online support Manager - Yuuguu)
Steve: Well done on raising all that money as it will be great to see what you guys do with it.
ZM; Thanks for the support of the Yuuguu service. We aim to make it as simple as possible to hold online meetings, share your screen and work collaboratively on documents over the web. The great thing about Yuuguu is that although you download a tiny app to run on your desktop, your participants in your meeting do not have to. You can simply share your screen which is seen through a browser window. We call this “web share” at the moment.
We would be really interested to hear from people who have ideas on what they would really like from Yuuguu. Visit the help section of our site and log your ideas in our people powered customer service area provided by http://www.getsatisfaction.com
I look forward to hearing from you all, kind regards,
Neil
If you specifically have a question about Yuuguu then you can visit our help service here…
http://www.yuuguu.com/help
Regards,
Neil
Online support Manager - Yuuguu
They have a dodgy reputation about their openess.
@Steve Chazin: Can you give a rough prediction on when you will be ready for Mac? We might be interested in using Dimdim with our company.
Kind regards,
Jurjan
Hi Dodgy,
Do you mean Dimdim or Yuuguu when you say dodgy reputation regarding openess?
I would be very interested in which statements you are regarding to as dodgy or rather false and i guess so would the people taking part in this post.
Please reply with some clarification as to what it is that is dodgy.
Look forward to hearing from you,
Neil
Online Support Manager - Yuuguu
Would be nice if you could tell us what this means in the world of WebEx and NetMeeting!
Jurjan, Dimdim works great on Mac today (I do all my Dimdim webinars on my MacBook Pro) The only feature that is missing today is Mac Desktop Sharing and that feature is coming for Mac in less than 2 weeks!
Steve, Thanks for your reply.
I am using spreed.com. It works great on my Mac. OS X screen sharing is supported and it has built-in telephone conferencing. It’s free too! Try it out on http://www.spreed.com
Congratulations to Dim Dim for raising the money, and they seem to have a nice product. However, there are quite a few other products which are free, based on open source and EASIER to use. Check out http://showmypc.com for example. Works on PCs and Mac (and viewer for Linux too).
For platform independent meetings on PC (including Linux) and Macs, spreed is simply the best system on the market. I have been testing a number of web meeting services. The only free web meeting service which I can recommend is spreed (http://www.spreed.com). spreed works on Linux (which I use), OS X and Windows with video, audio and screen sharing. spreed supports as the only web meeting service I have been working with, the open document formats PDF and OpenOffice.org. The more advanced features (which I have not seen with other offerings) are scalable vector presentation and loss-less screen sharing which is great if not essential for architects and builders. As a pro user you may miss telephone conferencing with the free services. Not with spreed. spreed has integrated telephone conferencing (I think they call it “Unified Conferencing”). I got a free US$ 5 telephone voucher when I created the account which is good for 8 hours phone calls in most countries of the world (1ct per minute). I can really recommend to check the service out online on http://www.spreed.com
Well, DimDim still requires Flash for basic meeting features. For a true Web 2.0 solution, check out http://www.iomeeting.com. IOMeeting supports chat, document sharing (ppt, doc, pdf, etc.) without requiring Flash, Java or browser plugin…