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DD Ganguly · 7 months ago

Hi Aaron,

Thanks for the post. I wonder whether Dimdim can be used for auctions. Something like a shopping channel on TV. If you have some thoughts and would like to discuss please drop me a note.

Warm regards,
ddg
CEO
Dimdim.com

Aaron Traffas · 7 months ago

Thanks for the comment. I'm truly impressed by your company and I look forward to trying it out whenever I need such a service in the future.

There are many service providers competing in the real-time bidding space in the auction industry. The difficult part is that latency is huge, as the difference between a bid being received before the auctioneer says sold can be sub-second. What kind of latency is associated with Dimdim's video abilities?

Brandon Harker · 7 months ago

Aaron, great article. I wasn't aware of this company but it sounds like they might finally be giving the established companies some competition! As you mentioned WebEx and GoToMeeting can be very pricey!

Carl Carter · 5 months ago

We just caught the tail end of the webinar, but we're using DimDim all the time (based on your original recommendation). The others were too expensive and crashed our machines, but this is easy and no-fuss. Not impressed with the whiteboard, but that's a tiny footnote. I appreciate the work you do in bringing useful products to our attention.

Aaron Traffas · 5 months ago

Thanks, Carl. I've been really impressed with Dimdim myself, more so after the weekly public training webinar yesterday. It's really and truly simple and cross-platform. I was always frustrated when I couldn't use Linux with Webex, but I can with Dimdim.

Joshanderson · 3 months ago

Those are very good tools, however, in many cases those platforms are used just to allow the team to review the same document together in real-time and "be on the same page".
The recently launched free site http://www.showdocument.com does exactly that, quickly show documents to friends and colleagues.
It allows web meeting and co-browsing on any document, user uploads a document and invites friends to view it with him live
All the participants in the session see each others' drawing, highlights, etc.

Josh