Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Dim Dim - ain't capitalism great!

Even though this is in beta, it's a great example of why we all need to be nimble and ready to move with any of the technologies that we hope to apply to online learning or communication. I'm not sure this is the answer for an enterprise or that it would adequately support online learning for an institution, but it certainly puts pressure on commercial providers to continue improving their product and to be sensitive to price.

"Dimdim is the world´s first free web meeting service based on the open source platform. 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."

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