Posted by Steve Chazin on Wed, Apr 16, 2008 @ 08:25 AM
Just back from LA and our launch event with TechCrunch. Prakash and I spoke about Dimdim to what seemed like every one of the 2000 people there and we had a great time in the process. Almost everyone who came to see us had already heard about Dimdim via the TechCrunch post earlier in the day. We demoed non-stop for 5 hours between Mac and Windows, using Safari, Firefox and IE (sometimes running multiple browsers and meetings simultaneously!) and it just worked. It was a testament to the hard work the entire development team has put in to making Dimdim easy, open and affordable.
We'd like to thank everyone we met and the entire TechCrunch team including Heather, Michael and Jeanne for the great event.
Here is Michael Arrington's quick interview of Prakash and me right before they started letting people into the Vanguard (about 5 hours before we lost our voices)
TrackBack: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/15/2100-people-party-in-la-with-popsugar-and-techcrunch/
Posted by D D Ganguly on Wed, Apr 09, 2008 @ 11:50 PM
Since we launched our private beta program in September, Dimdim has been used in 165 countries by over 350,000 people. And thanks to the feedback from our private beta testers we have upgraded our service to provide better screen sharing, dramatically enhanced our video and audio chat and introduced the MyDimdim meeting portal where you can host, schedule and search your meetings.
And today we opened our public beta to the rest of the world. Now anyone will be able to host their own Dimdim Web Meetings for free. We hope you will tell everyone you know that Dimdim - the easy, open, and affordable web meeting - is now available for free at Dimdim.com.
To thank you for helping us achieve this milestone, every private beta tester who signed up before March 23 will have their account upgraded to host meetings with up to 20 people, customize your meeting room with your own logo and more. This is just our way of thanking you for helping us make Dimdim even better.
We have many more exciting features coming, including recording and archiving, Mac and Linux screen sharing, and cool meeting widgets. So stay tuned and thank you again for supporting Dimdim.
Sincerely,
Steve
Posted by D D Ganguly on Wed, Apr 02, 2008 @ 09:40 PM
Okay, time to spill the beans. In less than 2 weeks we'll open up for Dimdim's first public beta!
To all our existing private beta testers, I just want to say thank you! And to all the new public beta testers who will surely arrive in droves I can only say welcome.
Welcome to the world's first free, open source web meeting.
Welcome to Simple. Open. Affordable.
There are some great people doing amazing things with Dimdim and I can't wait to see what you'll do when you get the chance.
Okay, back to getting ready for your arrival.
Steve
p.s. We have a very special surprise for all our private beta testers. Keep watching this blog for more.