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Taking A Dim Dim View

Wow... Robin Good over at MasterNewMedia is pissed! Apparently he had done a lot of work to have a big in-depth review ready when DimDim officially released their new open source web conferencing product. From context, I would guess that he worked with the company to get interviews and demos and he obviously spent a lot of time putting together a big article on the subject. Then the company missed their announced release date. Unfortunately, they didn't manage to update Robin, who was left with a major blog entry about vaporware. So he updated the first paragraph to inform people of the situation. And he did it in such a way as to leave no doubts that he is angry with the company and its management.

I can dig it. I'm sitting on a pre-release story myself with the cooperation of a company planning to do an announcement next week. I hope they come through!

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The Fantasy World of Web Conferencing

I saw a press release this weekend from True Conferencing. They have found a clever marketing hook for what is now an industry-standard offer of a free trial period to test out web conferencing software. They are tying the offer to the Fantasy Football craze that many of my friends and coworkers seem to go nuts for (I am immune for some strange reason). True Conferencing built a really nice landing page for their offer with good graphics related to the football theme and some brief but compelling ideas on how audio/web conferencing can improve the Fantasy Football experience for participants.

You can do a live action "Draft Day" in real-time with other Fantasy team owners. You can hold owners' meetings. You can use private chat to work out negotiations and deals. I haven't heard of anybody promoting web conferencing for this purpose before. I like it.

I salute True Conferencing for finding a clever new application for the technology that should offer a clear value proposition for many people who otherwise might not try the software. We need more thinking outside the box like this!

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