Tips & Tricks

Use your Skype profile for the next Tsunami

After the 2004 Tsunami, people rushed to help. Skypers should be a part of this the next time. Four steps:

Put Skype callto: links on the disaster web site, both in the directory of contacts and with each post/update. As important as phone numbers, especially when bridging long distances. This lets volunteers forage for the [...]

Tips & Tricks

Use your Skype profile for the next Tsunami

After the 2004 Tsunami, people rushed to help. Skypers should be a part of this the next time. Four steps:

Put Skype callto: links on the disaster web site, both in the directory of contacts and with each post/update. As important as phone numbers, especially when bridging long distances. This lets volunteers forage for the [...]

Skype News

Niklas VON Canada

I have plenty of material to absorb. Some new learnings and no radical announcements. I sat through Niklas’s pre lunch presentation and have just finished making notes from his hour long press conference. He’s been the draw card here this morning although Tom Evlin injected some new thinking for many in the audience. See his [...]

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Scoble Loses One to Skype

Just caught this clip from Scoble on losing his boss to Skype. It’s going to make life more interesting.

I’m saddened to see my boss, Lenn Pryor, leave Microsoft and go to Skype. He’s one of the best bosses I’ve ever had the pleasure of working for. Lenn is one of a few people in [...]

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Jeff Pulver VON Canada

Jeff Pulver “From Telephony to IP: Shift Happens” is about to kick off the second VON Canada. He speaks of the communcations gap, the need for freedoms to choose and provides his questions for Skype. I’ve paraphrased many of his comments. Shift does happen. Reference to TV programs, Radar on Mash and the Jetsons, and [...]

events

Skype Journal at VON Canada

Despite my continued attempts to do so, I can’t be everywhere at once. (I was so counting on Skype to solve that problem.) So Stuart Henshall and Bill Campbell are in Toronto this week, at one of the biggest gatherings of the VoIP faithful this year. Questions for other VON Canada attendees:

How will mobile [...]

stories

Air Skype

Loic Le Meur used Skype on a transatlantic flight. via Scoble. As planes plug in to the Internet, Skype comes calling. Cheaper, richer and more flexible than those handsets built into the seat. Bonus: your SkypeIn numbers and Skype ID travel with you. Next stop: the International Space Station. No joke. Students in the Amateur [...]

Developer Zone | Developers | software | support

Skype Journal Guide : Learning Skype’s Plug-In Architecture

Skype Journal presents this guide to help developers learn Skype’s Plug-in Architecture. [...]

Developer Zone | Developers | software | support

Skype Journal Guide : Learning Skype’s Plug-In Architecture

Skype Journal presents this guide to help developers learn Skype’s Plug-in Architecture. [...]

Developer Zone | Developers | software | support

Skype Journal Guide : Learning Skype’s Plug-In Architecture

Skype Journal presents this guide to help developers learn Skype’s Plug-in Architecture. [...]

observations

SkypeIn “Lock-in” Strategy

Strategically Skype is almost silently slipping SkypeIn into the market, obtaining numbers slowly but surely country by country. Strategically, going into “stealth mode” with SkypeIn is a good move. Telecoms appear not to be worried, and afterall Skype is just another VoIP upstart. And that friends is a result of blind foolishness. Concurrently AOL announced [...]

observations

My Skype Business Model: The $50 Cuban Cigar

On the trip back from our Skype Journal meeting in Seattle the fellow I sat beside asked me a difficult question, “What do you do Bill? Retired?” The word “Skype” returned a glazed look. So I asked the question, “Tell me Ken, about your business?” Ken (CEO) told me about the international nature of his [...]

observations

My Skype Business Model: The $50 Cuban Cigar

On the trip back from our Skype Journal meeting in Seattle the fellow I sat beside asked me a difficult question, “What do you do Bill? Retired?” The word “Skype” returned a glazed look. So I asked the question, “Tell me Ken, about your business?” Ken (CEO) told me about the international nature of his [...]

stories

Conference Call Power

What’s the easiest way to get your new friends hooked on Skype? It’s conference call power. It’s almost impossible for a normal human being to make a conference call. In business someone always arranges it and at home we don’t have the equipment or it’s just plain expensive. I’ve been on Skype so long you [...]

observations

Skype Dentist?

As Bill told me a story tonight I realized that we still have a long way to go with the buddylist. In my paper and outlook address books I have my mechanic, barber, doctor, lawyer, dentist, local school numbers, etc. Some I just call once in a year, others more often. When will I know [...]

7 years and 1 day since Skype Journal launched as a stand-alone blog.

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