Entries Tagged as 'Web 2.0 Application'

Dimdim Unleashes the “Eagle”

Dimdim LogoI’ve always been anticipating every major release of Dimdim. In my view, Dimdim is one of the coolest open source project around. Its promise of a rich media collaboration for all is something I’d really love to see happen. Dimdim is the world’s free open source web meeting company whose mission is to become the leading provider of open source web meeting software. Since launch, it has been used in 165 countries by over 350,000 people.


Dimdim is marching on. After starting on private beta, it is now open on public beta and just recently released the Open Source Community Edition Version 3.5, codenamed “Eagle”. The “Eagle” release includes the following new and improved features:

BeeHive: The New FaceBook for the Cubicle Warriors

Just like in the movies, Social Networking is COMING SOON to the office near you.

There is much anticipation in the business world regarding IBM’s social networking software, BEEHIVE. Much like FaceBook, users can post pictures, video and one-sentence updates about themselves. Employees can describe their expertise, talk about themselves and learn about their colleagues from the other side of the world. Certainly a great tool that empowers employees to socialize with each other, especially amongst co-workers scattered across the different offices of today’s enterprises.

DimDim: A Rebel to Democratize Rich Media Collaboration!

There was this story that there were a group of individuals scattered all across the globe who constantly kept in touch with each other using different communication mediums and tools. They realized that keeping up with these communication tools are quite expensive and unreliable. What they thought of was that there was an opportunity with the predicament that they encountered and came up with a plan to create an integrated, easy-to-use communication and collaboration free service tool to address needs of people who were geographically dispersed but have a constant need for communications and collaborations.

Promt 7.8 Online Translation That Works!

It is quite difficult to get into business when we are trying to communicate with major languages being used now in the West. Hard to accept but not all who are into business are capable of speaking the Universal Language which is the English language. That is why many businesses who have clients from the other parts of the Globe wherein a different language is being used needs a translator to help them in understanding languages not commonly shared by everyone.

Right now, a new technology had arised. This is Promt 7.8 - an online translation tool that would make one easily translate phrases and words to and from various major languages from the West. Whether it be French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Russian to English. It is a major assistance to most of us who are into business. Right now, most meetings are being done online and some are through chat or private messaging through chat conferences. This tool is a very usable software that could easily assist anyone who would be talking to another businessman from another part of the Globe. Language would no longer be a barrier when it comes to that.

Basecamp the iPOD of Project Collaboration

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Basecamp - It is an online project management, collaboration and task software. As a Business week author mentioned,

“Basecamp is so simple you can’t do anything wrong. It’s addictively easy-to-use.”

-Robert Hof, BusinessWeek.

VoIP for SME’s - Would it Work?

Much have been written about VoIP, its advantages have been highlighted specially for home users who are already using it as their primary tool for communications. However, is VoIP the ideal communication tool for business? VoIP means Voice Over Internet Protocol or IP telephony which started to be used in 1973 and evolved as the VoIP we have at present.

VoIP used to be an unknown segment of the communication industry wherein PSTN lines for landline phones and GSM for mobile phones are dominant majorities. VoIP for a common layman could often be hard to comprehend. Until the time that Skype through the integration of its framework in VoIP that most common people were able to have a solid grasp on what VoIP is all about.