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Barack tethered

Have you noticed President Obama is never photographed using a mobile anymore? Here are some pics from The Official White House Photostream on flickr by Pete Souza. 

Given how many hours the President must spend on a phone, is a Bluetooth or other wireless headset out of the question? [...]

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Why Oprah’s Skype day was ineffective: tone and Skype

Skype earned market acceptance when Oprah said "I love Skype" in 2008. Skype started to become a household name as Oprah brought guests to her her weekday show.

Thursday, a year later, she spent an hour in Skype’s honor. Nothing happened; Skype’s download rate didn’t budge.

The "Where the Skype Are You?" show [...]

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eBay puts distance between Skype and Markets

You knew it was coming. Now eBay is weaning its markets sites from Skype influence. No longer is Skype among "More eBay Sites."

Meanwhile, eBay forbids Skype links/buttons in listings.

Skype voice and chat buttons in listings are being discontinued

eBay is discontinuing Skype voice and chat buttons in listings as of [...]

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Tune in to the Revolution. Live.

Anything with Susan Crawford has my attention. Tune in now.

hashtag: #fpdc

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News release:

Michael Copps, Vivian Schiller, Susan Crawford to Keynote Free Press Summit Event to highlight public interest policies on Internet, journalism and public media

WASHINGTON — The Free Press Summit: Changing Media [...]

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Why a Skype platform can lead to happiness

Here’s a 2004 TED talk by Malcolm Gladwell about the importance of variability in product design.

He concludes with four points.

There’s a disconnect between what people say they want when you ask them (in focus groups, for example) and what they really want and do. We all say we [...]

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Q. What are the Skype TechPolicy issues?

I’m heading out to a technology public policy conference today. Tuning my ear to listen for new issues. Some already on the Skype plate…

Mobile Carterfone – freedom to use the device of your choice on a mobile network Mobile Net Neutrality – US mobile carriers are blocking Skype voice calls from data services. [...]

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Skype for iPhone demo at the Apple store

Here’s Justin, Captain Computer, demonstrating Skype for iPhone, at the Southpoint Apple Store in Durham, North Carolina, USA.

tags: skype, apple, iphone, demo, video, usa, durham

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Weekend Reading

Nokia and Verizon set up JoinStarfleetAcademy.com. Nokia bought some nice product placement in the first 15 minutes of the film.

Skyping doctors on Good Morning America television show. Return of the house call?

Wiley publishing Skype’s authors into bookstores for video readings. From home in New Jersey to an in-store audience in Cincinnati. [...]

architecture | dataportability | design | Technology

Open Arms: a data portability approach

Caveat Lector: this is a rough draft of my thinking on what a Portability EULA /TOS should say/do/include. Please comment. – Phil

We’ve discussed Graceful Exit, the ability for people to control their departure from a site or service.

Open Arms starts at the beginning of your relationship with a service. Let’s [...]

analysis | design | Skype

Optimizing Skype.com for growth and sales

UPDATE: A Skype executive asked Omniture to ask Skype Journal to take down this post, said Kristi Knight, Omniture senior director of corporate communications. "It was information that wasn’t meant to be made available to the general public" said Brian Watkins, Omniture’s public relations manager. Omniture removed the Skype part of the webinar from the [...]

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Skype Domination: Platform Agnostic Style

Guest post by Andy Yang, who blogs with The Mobile Experience team.

I never realized this but Skype is everywhere! Regardless if you are a PC, Mac or Linux user, you can grab a version at your convenience. In the smartphone world, Windows Mobile, iPhone/iPod Touch, and Android have their versions of Skype [...]

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Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone 1.1 adds a landscape keyboard

Yahoo! announced an update to Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone. download on iTunes or update from the App Store. Some bug fixes, the landscape QWERTY keyboard, and a new feedback form.

There’s still room to grow: no voice or video chat, no making or taking phone calls, no chat rooms or multichat, no gateway [...]

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Skype 1.0.3 for iPhone – hotfix

Download the update. Three bugs fixed. Discuss in the Skype for iPhone forum.

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When Skype Goes Mobile: INQ1

Guest post by Martyn Davies, News Editor at VoIP User,  Principal Consultant at Dialogic, Podcaster at Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast, and contributor to the Voice of VOIPSA blog. @martyndavies on twitter.

The INQ¹ is the third generation of phones from the “3” network (Hutchison 3G) that has Skype integrated into it. The INQ1 [...]

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Can digital pipes handle swine flu epidemic spikes?

Pandemics change human behavior for millions of people. Our networks may not be ready for those changes.

Just stay home. Wash your hands. Advice from the US CDC for people at risk of the 2009 swine flu. Mexican authorities urge avoiding face-to-face contact in many-to-many places like hospitals, museums, theaters, cinemas (releases of [...]

7 years and 12 days since Skype Journal launched as a stand-alone blog.

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