April Fools ideas for next year
Skype announces the return of the 1MB windows client. An end to bloat.
Skype HQ phone number auctioned on eBay.
Tencent Buys Skype, Moves HQ to Shenzhen. Now with free spyware.
AT&T and Comcast start bidding war for Skype.
Skype now translated into Na'vi, Klingon, Elvish, Ancient Greek, Latin, Babylonian Cuneiform, Esperanto.
Meg Whitman crashes Skype when friending 20 million California voters.
Skype for Cars: Speech UI. Video calls projected on windshield. Dashboard sharing. p2p augmented by car-to-car networks.
Chinese government improves filtering technology; dubs out forbidden phrases from Skype voice calls in real time. Instead of Tiananmen Square you're heard to say Toffee Square.
Iron Man 2 suit to feature Skype mobile. Problems with vertical roaming outside of Verizon 3G zones.
Skype for Musicians. Now embedded in keyboards, guitars, wind instruments. tricky dialing. MusicXML, midi. emoticon generator from music. licensing deals with record labels.
Skype mobile for futbols. In time for FIFA world cup.
Skype for IMAX. The audience speaks. (Take that, THX)
l'shanah haba'ah b'AprilFools
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2 Comments:
There are three things which I don't like about about the language joke:
1st, Esperanto ist put into a list of either fantasy languages for fictional universes (Klingon, Elvish, Na'vi) or old, in this form non-spolen languages (Ancient Greek, Latin, Babylonian Cuneiform). Esperanto is a language made for this world and for everyday life.
2nd, the joke bases on the idea that no-one will speak Esperanto using Skype. Since I registered to skype, most of my conversations (which happen on a nearly-daily basis) are in Esperanto. I have even had two work conferences in Esperanto via Skype.
3rd, it is assumed that by 2011, Esperanto will not be available as a language for Skype. However, a quick search revealed that plans in order to translate the Skype interface into date back as early as 2004 and the first version was available about 2005. I admit that it may be hard for non-Esperanto speaking person to find the language file in the internet, but there is a Yahoo group for Esperanto-speaking Skype users:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skajpanoj/
The language file may be found under the file section (last update: October 2009).
Esperanto speakers are scattered all over the world. All they share is a common language. Sounds like Skype is an ideal tool for them in order to hear and see each other more often. Why making fun of this good use?
Glad to hear Esperanto is going strong, Kunar!
I'd also like to see Skype translations for other living microculture languages, like Yiddish, Klingon and some of the Inuit languages.
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