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Amazon (AMZN), I have often pointed out, is a harbinger of technology trends that eventually gain mainstream acceptance. Contextual matching of information and community-powered feedback and ratings systems are two such examples.
Dimdim, a Burlington, MA.-based web meeting services startup, wants to take on Cisco Systems' (CSCO) WebEx and Microsoft's (MSFT) Placeware by emphasizing simplicity and ease of use. The company, which is backed by investors including Draper Richards, Index Ventures and Nexus Capital India, launches its service today at DEMOfall 2007.
Call it Second Life on the web, call it an MMO markup language, call it the most powerful open-standards, web-driven game platform ever made public - however you end up describing it, we finally have the main details to go on. After a year of rumorsοΎ around Raph Koster's newstartup, Areae, his stealth Internet project is finally public.
Azureus beat Bram Cohen's Bittorrent venture to the punch when they soft-launched a Torrent-powered content platform in December. Zudeo.com features film trailers next to semi-professional HD content and has since seen 1 million visitors. All these folks will soon have to learn a new moniker, because Azureus is about to pull a Venice Project on us.
According to Alec Saunders, who apparently never sleeps and was awake to see an early press release, Adtran COO Danny Windham is moving over to Digium to be CEO of the open source IP PBX vendor.
Open-source IP PBXs were supposed to target the incumbent telephony world's lunch. But right now the Asterisk community finds itself in a food fight over the free, small-installation market, between upstart Fonality and the house of Asterisk itself, Digium.
Mark Cuban has somewhat of a mixed record predicting BitTorrent's future, having once suggested that nobody would ever download HD content over peer-to-peer networks. Obviously, he got that one wrong. But he does have a point when it comes to a growing obstacle to P2P becoming mainstream:
