{"id":87,"date":"2011-01-11T18:55:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T16:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2011-01-11T18:55:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T16:55:06","slug":"rip-www-dimdim-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/rip-www-dimdim-com\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP www.dimdim.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

What can i say? For once I am genuinely surprised and taken aback by a news story<\/a>. DimDim<\/strong> has been one of my favourite websites for a few years…why? because it offers free web conferencing and does it really WELL, i suppose I should say ‘did<\/span> it really well’! Therefore it was with shock I read the news story that Salesforce.com had come in a paid $31 for DimDim. Nice bit of cash. Sell outs!<\/p>\n

I do all my AD and SharePoint user training via a great combination of DimDim, to share my desktop and VMs, and Skype, for voice presentation and conferencing! Now I can no longer offer the regular training sessions I ran unless I find an alternative to DimDim. You’re probably asking why am I being a cheapskate and why not just pay for a service like Webex.<\/p>\n

The reason, cos I run the courses for FREE! I don’t charge any of my students a single penny, I believe knowledge is to be shared and that’s how it should be! I run my next session tomorrow night so I have just over 24 hours to find an alternative.<\/p>\n

It seems Salesforce<\/strong> purchased DimDim<\/strong> with weird aspirations of being to the business world what Facebook is to the social world. Yeah, right! How on earth will a web conferncing acquisition to the portfolio make you anything like Facebook??? It doesn’t make sense, do you use Facebook for webconferencing with those in your friends list?!!!<\/p>\n

Also they harp on about ‘Cloud 2’ a lot, what on earth are they on about? When did we have Cloud 1? I can’t recall it.<\/p>\n

Rant over, peace out and RIP www.dimdim.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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