dimdim Launches the World's First, Free and Open Source Web Meeting Service

    SAN DIEGO, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- dimdim (http://www.dimdim.com), the
 world's first free web meeting service based on the open source platform,
 today launched at DEMOfall 07. dimdim is a browser-based web 2.0 service
 that allows anybody to share their desktop, show slides, as well as talk,
 listen, chat, and broadcast via webcam. dimdim's hosted service is
 available for free and can be easily used for small gatherings, to seminars
 with hundreds of attendees.
     With absolutely no software to download for attendees, dimdim gives
 everyone the opportunity to hold Web meetings and to customize and brand
 these meetings. dimdim is a rich internet application (RIA) that includes
 advanced collaboration features (browser-based audio conferencing,
 broadcast webcam, slides, desktop sharing, etc.) so that anyone and
 everyone can easily and instantly interact, without the hassle of having to
 download and maintain software. dimdim has integrated open source software
 applications with its own open source software. dimdim integrates, among
 other technologies, the world's most popular software for course
 management, used by universities, schools, companies and independent
 teachers around the world. dimdim also utilizes Amazon's Elastic Compute
 Cloud, providing dimdim users with the same sophisticated and scaleable
 infrastructure used by Amazon.com. Purely via word-of-mouth amongst the
 open source community, dimdim has already been downloaded more than 120,000
 times.
     "dimdim differs from first generation Web meeting solutions, as they
 were exceedingly expensive, notoriously difficult to implement and
 impossible 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 DD Ganguly, CEO and
 co-founder of dimdim. "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."
     "I always look out for practicality and the potential for social change
 in technology. dimdim's approach of bringing Web meetings, based on open
 source technology, to consumers for free, is both innovative and
 refreshing," said Chris Shipley, executive producer of the DEMO
 Conferences. dimdim has secured venture funding from the original investors
 in Skype, Hotmail, and MySQL. dimdim's investors include: Draper Richards,
 Index Ventures, and Nexus India Capital. Howard Hartenbaum, General Partner
 at Draper Richards commented: "Just as Hotmail brought free e-mail to the
 world, and Skype determined that 'the world can talk for free', dimdim is
 the first company to bring Web meetings to the world for free on an open
 platform." Suvir Sujan, Managing Director, Nexus India Capital Advisors,
 said: "dimdim's easy to use and free software is ideally suited to meet the
 underserved Web meeting needs of millions of small and medium enterprises
 and consumers."
     dimdim's founding management team has loyally collaborated for over 20
 years. dimdim is led by co-founder and CEO DD Ganguly whose experience
 includes: founder and CEO of Advanced Internet Management (acquired by
 Computer Associates), and VP of Computer Associates; and Prakash Khot, co-
 founder and CTO of dimdim who previously led CA's Radio-frequency
 identification (RFID) Group as CTO.
     About dimdim
     dimdim is the world's free, open source, web meeting company. dimdim is
 backed by the original investors in Skype, Hotmail, and MySQL. dimdim's
 global investors include: Nexus India Capital, Index Ventures and Draper
 Richards. dimdim is based in Boston, Mass., with offices in Canada, and
 India.
     About DEMO
     Produced by Network World Events and Executive Forums, the semiannual
 DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products, which are
 hand selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The
 DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying
 tomorrow's cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events
 for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring, and U.S. Robotics, helping
 them to secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships,
 and influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference features approximately
 70 new companies, products and technologies. For more information, visit
 http://www.demo.com.
 
 

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