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Google Wave opens up to more developers today. Ribbit‘s voice conference gadget is a featured bot. Here’s the demo. Q. What technology does BT/Ribbit have, making this possible, that Skype doesn’t? Q. Does this scale if Ribbit has to pay for each minute? Q. What advantages does decoupling chat from IM bring to users? [...] Tencent‘s QQ all-time peak concurrent users is 75 million; four times Skype’s. Live stats. By contrast, Skype dialtone reached 18 million concurrent users earlier this month. QQIM is expanding from its Chinese base with its 990 million user accounts and 448 million monthly active IM users. IMQQ.com is QQ’s new "global" portal for English [...] Killing Skype’s developer program was an exercise in business discipline. You prune your tree of small, weak, sickly branches so nutrients and sunlight let the whole tree flourish. Skype’s developer program (SDP) has been bloodless for years. By every measure. Growth in programmers. Number of ecosystem products. Value contributed. What devalued Skype’s [...] Deutsche Welle‘s Michael Altenhenne interviewed Skype‘s Sten Tamkivi (with remarks by Jean-Jacques Sahel) for a "Made In Germany" television news segment. Posted 2 September 2009, it takes the theme of Skype against big mobile phone companies like Deutsche Telekom. While the positions are old news by now, the Skype Tallinn headquarters tour is fairly [...]
Chris from Vancouver suffers from Skype Syndrome. No word yet on treatment or a cure. tags: skype, syndrome, humor, fun, addiction, boisestate, toothbrush, psychotherapy, skypesyndrome, youtube Call me at +1-510-316-9773, Skype me, follow @skypejournal and @Phil Wolff. Visit our Skype Journal private roundtable, one of the longest running public Skype [...] This week’s episode of CW‘s new nighttime soap, The Beautiful Life, includes Skype in its opening dialog… Sonya No, Mom. Do not come to New York. That’s a terrible idea. [Unintelligible voice on the phone] Because, I don’t want my baby anywhere near this snake pit. [voice] [...] Guest post by Jon Arnold of the Analyst 2.0 Blog from the VON conference in Palm Beach, Florida. Yesterday was a transition day here, with VON running ’til early afternoon, and then the focus shifted to the Channel Partners event. It was a bit strange seeing all the signage, etc. for VON in the morning, [...] Congratulations to Skype Stockholm’s Koen Vos, Soeren Jensen, and Karsten Soerensen on their submission of the SILK Speech Codec to the Internet Engineering Task Force as an Internet-Draft, the first step on the way to becoming an IETF standard. Thanks to Skype’s Jin Kim and Jason Fischl for helping it start the process. This [...] Guest post by Mark Poole, member of the Skype 5.X Discussion Skype CEO Josh Silverman joined FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, Free Press’s Ben Scott and Verizon government affairs VP David Young for two hours at the Brookings Institute today. These are Mark Poole’s notes from that panel. This webcast spotlighted the issue of access. [...] Would love to have Skype Nights in California, but that’s just me. Here are some snapshots from 10 September in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Mr. Shinichi Iwata, general manager of Skype Japan spoke. He concluded "Skype is expanding, it’s going viral, I hope to introduce it more and more." London video called in to [...] Ronald A. Katz may be one of the most successful patent trolls, bringing in about one billion dollars in license fees. His counsel? Hennigan, Bennet & Dorman, a Los Angeles law firm. HBD is the same firm that filed for Joltid Limited in the US District court against Skype Technologies S.A.; Skype Inc, [...] With billions at stake (dollars, minutes, users) you can see why a few Skype co-founders and Joltid owners are suing Skype. Again. If they can spoil the deal for a few million in legal fees, maybe eBay puts Skype back on the market. Clint Boulton gets it. tags: skype [...] Ella: "Yesterday I took a building-wide poll after the murder and we all agreed we’d feel a lot safer in the courtyard if there was some sort of security camera. So with Jonah being the building’s resident film school grad slash A/V geek, we figured you could hook us up." Jonah: [...] Ella: "Yesterday I took a building-wide poll after the murder and we all agreed we’d feel a lot safer in the courtyard if there was some sort of security camera. So with Jonah being the building’s resident film school grad slash A/V geek, we figured you could hook us up." Jonah: [...] Download Skype for Mac 2.8.0.722. 44 MB. Skype’s announcement, release notes, and where you can report new bugs. Hotfix 1 improves stability across OS X. Skype reports this fixes issues: Calling: Platform specific: OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard – Call Phones and Send SMS window “Type number” text field is too dark Chat: Chat window [...] |
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