Great news for Dimdim staff and founders, but bad news perhaps for most of Dimdim’s paid and open source users: Dimdim was acquired by Salesforce.com according to a recent announcement.
Dimdim has been available as a Moodle integration for several years and is the first conference tool that I cut my teeth on in 2007. It had been a viable open source project and relatively low cost software-as-a-service. Both aspects of it’s business were popular webinar integration tools within the Moodle community. From the official Salesforce/Dimdim notification,
Pursuant to the Dimdim Terms of Use (the “Agreement”) governing the use of Dimdim Inc.’s (“Dimdim”) Site and Services (as defined under the Agreement) by you (“You”), Dimdim is hereby exercising its right to terminate Your Dimdim Account and the Agreement in its entirety. Dimdim will continue to provide Services to you until March 15, 2011. Following March 15, 2011, neither You nor Dimdim shall have any further rights or obligations of any kind under the Agreement, including the right to access the Site, or receive or use any Services. Dimdim thanks you for your business, and wishes you success in the future.
While Dimdim will discontinue supporting the open source code at Sourceforge.net [http://sourceforge.net/projects/dimdim/] it’s possible that other developers could continue to maintain that branch or utilize that code as a foundation for a new open source webinar tool. Unfortunate for the community of users (and more so if anyone made the jump from Wimba/Elluminate to Dimdim in wake of the Blackboard acquisitions last year, there still are several growing and viable open source/low-cost webinar services available.
Two open source alternatives available are*:
Other non-open source alternatives include,
If there are other please post them in the comments.
*While I might suggest looking into each, I cannot and do not endorse either.
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If only BigBlueButton allowed for recording sessions (or have they added that yet). I’m off to see what’s new!
Although BigBlueButton is not mature, its promissing and has a very comunicative team.
Hello,
Another solution is Wormhole Web Conference (wwc)
http://www.wormholeit.com/wwc
You can ask a free trial account. It’s in Spanish and English and it also has an e-learning suite.
Thanks!
dimdim’s open source version was junk anyway and barely worked. Plus, it hadn’t been updated in what, almost 3 years?
Similar to Wiziq there is also
http://sclipo.com/
http://www.netviewer.com/en/products/netviewer-meet/?SL=1
Salu2
A new player that is also free and multilingual
http://www.mikogo.com/
MegaMeeting.com is a customer service oriented company that has been around for more than seven years. We welcome all Dim Dim clients to experience a free live demonstration of our browser-based web and video conferencing system at http://www.megameeting.com
free DimDim users will lose their conference rooms! 2011
No Worries mate!:) I’ve found a great room.
GVO-Confreneceing offers a fully interactive confrence/classroom (live video, white board, powerpoint,web acess, desktop sharing,are just a few of the features.) They offer a free trial period and if you like what you see you can upgrade to a 50 seat confrence room for just $8.97USD per month. Your room is acessable 24/7 which is great for me.try it today http://gvo-Lea2008.gvoconference.com/ Cheers Lea