Salesforce.com officially announced today its acquisition of Indian web conferencing company Dimdim for approximately $31 million in cash. It is anticipated that Salesforce.com will integrate DimDim’s features into their SaaS Chatter product.
The
DimDim website now allows only existing customers to login, with a note that new registrations are not being accepted. The open source community edition is still available for download from
Sourceforge but will no longer be maintained by Salesforce.com. All free accounts are being shut down.
DimDim was (is) a component of the
Knowledge Hub (a project I’m deeply involved with) and would have provided a free-to-use conferencing facility for Gov/Local Gov users of theThe Knowledge Hub when it is launched later this year. The full implications to the Knowledge Hub project are being assessed.
I’m a life-long learner with an insatiable curiosity about life. I love travel, good food, and good company. I’m happy to share what I know with others….even the interesting stuff! My outlook on life is pretty well captured in this quote from a book about the legend of King Arthur:
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
So much to learn, so little time!
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Have you looked at BigBlueButton as an alternative? Heard it compared to #dimdim on @FLOSSweekly: http://twit.tv/floss147 Looks like the publicity has scuppered bigbluebutton.org for the moment but you can check them out at https://github.com/bigbluebutton and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigBlueButton.
Many thanks for the BigBlueButton prompt. haven’t come across it before….looks promising. I’ll discuss with our developers.