SalesForce.com buys dimdim: Online meeting accounts to close

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January 6th, 2011 - Posted by Kent

SalesForce.com, one of the biggest names in cloud computing and CRM, has bought dimdim, one of our favorite online meeting providers. For current dimdim customers, this means their accounts will be active until March 15th, 2011. Current customers are advised to download any documents they may have uploaded to the service, as well as retrieve any recorded meetings, contact lists, or records they may need for the future. We're sad to see dimdim go, but we're sure we'll see it resurface in a different form as SalesForce.com seeks to take on competitors like WebEx. SalesForce sites the growth of Facebook as a primary driver behind the need to expand its offerings, which makes sense as dimdim really excelled at leveraging social networking in its online meeting platform.

If you're a current dimdim customer, you can check out their FAQ to see how the product termination will affect your account. Also, be sure to check out our online meeting reviews for help in finding a replacement service. We're leaving it in our comparison chart for the time being, so you can find a service that offers comparable features.

Adobe Black Friday coupon: $50.00 off

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November 22nd, 2010 - Posted by Kent

Want to save $50.00 on a yearly subscription to Adobe Acrobat Connect, or any other Adobe product of $500.00 or more? The Adobe Black Friday coupon is here early. Simply enter the code BLKMON50 at the Adobe store to receive the discount. The offer ends November 30th, 2011.

What web hosting provider would you recommend for a website that has a lot of video uploading/downloading or something similar to video conferencing?

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February 22nd, 2010 - Posted by Kent

The following post in our Reader Question series is an actual user submitted question:

Q: What web hosting provider would you recommend for a website that has a lot of video uploading/downloading or something similar to video conferencing?

For a media intensive site, we would probably recommend Lunarpages. As our web hosting report card shows, Lunarpages has exhibited very fast download times as well as consistently speedy server response times. Bluehost and Hostmonster are also very good, and a bit cheaper, though their server response time is not quite as high (though when you're talking about fractions of a second, it's not that significant). Those should be fine for video uploading and downloading, provided that you're not running a massive video distribution service.

We never tested any sort of web-enabled video conferencing with web hosting, so it's hard to give you advice on that. We did test several video conferencing solutions when we tested online meeting software, but these are not made to run from a website.