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Dimdim Webconferencing, Thriving in an Uncertain Economy

March 31, 2009 – 11:41 pm

Dimdim, the low-priced webconferencing service has made some big strides and gained competitive ground in a market filled with deep-pocket competition like Cisco and WebEx in the one and a half years. The MA-based startup seems to be thriving in not only a market that has lots of competition, but in an economy that has many startups struggling to stay alive.

Dimdim has all of the basic features required for successful webconferencing, including document sharing, screensharing, whiteboards, and voice and video chat. The system is entirely web-based, and does not require any downloads, allowing people to quickly connect and collaborate on any computer with a browser and internet connection.

The company now claims to have over 2 million active users and hosts about 1 million minutes of web conferencing services each week. Their platform is entirely open source and large organizations like Drupal and Moodle are designing projects on their platform. Other companies are using components of the Dimdim system, such as the chat and document sharing modules.

This week, Dimdim is set to release version 5.0 of its services that will supposedly include a host of new, as-of-yet unannounced features.

www.dimdim.com