asterisk | Developers | ecomm | events | sip | Skype | software | Technology

Cool demo: Google Wave + Skype + Asterisk + Ibook

He’s in a wave. Adds a gadget. Passes a Skype name to a gadget. Browser-to-Skype call starts.

They talk. As each person talks for a bit, their bit is encoded and linked-to.

So you have a play-by-play record of a call.

Inside a Google wave.

Under the covers: Jason [...]

competition | ecomm | Europe | events | Strategy

Why all telecom companies should follow Free.Fr’s example

Why all Telecom Marketing and Product management is wrong View more presentations from Raindeer.

It’s almost therapy for your phone company: be true to yourself. Find joy in simplifying your customer relationships so you can be marvelous at simply helping people talk. Rudolf van der Berg‘s talk at the Emerging Communications Conference in Amsterdam. [...]

Developers | fun | Life | Skype | SkypeExtras | Technology | wishlist

Wish For A Custom Skype App Contest

Skype developer Don Kennedy will write a Skype program for you. Free. In two weeks. Just ask for what you want in the comments below. "Dear Don, I wish Skype could…"

Don built a Skype bot that translates live Skype chats in 43 languages. An app that monitors your subscription use. A tool that [...]

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Concept Art: The FuriousTeam Skype fish

Ever have problems with your Amoi (夏新) Skypephone? Furious Team makes a Furious Gold product that claims to repair, direct unlock, disable OTP check, reset phone code and factory settings to default, fix Bluetooth address and IMN, and read phone info. Haven’t used it so I cannot say if it works or not. This [...]

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Skype Concept Art: "Free to Roam" Tee Shirt

Ashley Hutchinson created this art for a YCN 09 design competition. Her theme: "Free to Roam… It’s about more than just free calls." Ash’s flickr set, used with permission.

tags: skype, art, ashhutch, ahutchabove, conceptart, ashleyhutchinson, graphicdesign, huddersfield, illustration, [...]

Business | dialtone | Ebay | financials | Skype | spinoff | spinout

eBay 2009q3 investor results (the Skype parts)

eBay says Skype sale is on track for mid 2009q4 (November). eBay’s cash will live offshore; no immediate plans for it.

Let’s look at Skype’s performance for July, August, and September this year.

First, Skypers called for 30.8 billion minutes this quarter.

Not only did Skypers call more, more were connected [...]

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Skype Concept Art: "Free to Roam" iPhone wallpaper

Ashley Hutchinson created this art for a YCN 09 design competition. Her theme: "Free to Roam… It’s about more than just free calls." Ash’s flickr set, used with permission.

tags: skype, art, ashhutch, ahutchabove, conceptart, ashleyhutchinson, graphicdesign, huddersfield, illustration, [...]

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Research Topics in Collaboration

I wanted to follow up on my Monday post about the importance of collaboration products to Skype’s business strategy. The great thing about collaboration is that it is very hard. Collaboration is less a discipline than a catchall term. It’s peopleware more than technology, anecdotes more than evidence. Universities have no Collaboration Studies department in [...]

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Skype Concept Art: "Free to Roam" laptop skin

Ashley Hutchinson created this art for a YCN 09 design competition. Her theme: "Free to Roam… It’s about more than just free calls." Ash’s flickr set, used with permission.

tags: skype, art, ashhutch, ahutchabove, conceptart, ashleyhutchinson, graphicdesign, huddersfield, [...]

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Skype Concept Art: "Free to Roam" poster

Ashley Hutchinson created this art for a YCN 09 design competition. Her theme: "Free to Roam… It’s about more than just free calls." Ash’s flickr set, used with permission.

tags: skype, art, ashhutch, ahutchabove, conceptart, ashleyhutchinson, graphicdesign, huddersfield, illustration, typography, animation, ycn

Call me at +1-510-316-9773, Skype [...]

Business | Collaboration | facebook | Skype | Strategy | Technology

Why Collaboration is strategic for Skype

The Volpi email says Skype must increase its reach, be in more places, connect with other networks. In other words, more.

That’s an indefensible strategy. It won’t survive attack.

Talk itself is a commodity with relatively low barriers to entry. Facebook, MySpace, SecondLife, and other communities add IM and voice calling as [...]

Business | financials | JoshSilverman | restructuring | sip | Skype | spinoff | spinout | VoIP

Volpi’s Skype Business Concept: SIP, social, lite, layoffs

- buy skype, replace p2p with SIP (standard-based, open, can interwork with other VoIP systems – like the Cisco phones)

- use social graph to augment other socials via API or develop its own social

- replace heavy client with flash/html/java version – make it lightweight for embedded devices (mobile)

- clean up staff and [...]

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Where’s the value in Skype buying Gizmo5?

Michael Arrington broke a rumor that Skype is in talks to buy Michael Robertson‘s Gizmo5. I don’t see much value.

You buy a small company for five things: cash flow, IP, brand, relationships, and people.

Does the firm produce cash flow? When you make half-a-penny a minute, you must sell a gazillion minutes. When [...]

analysis | apple | AT&T | dataportability | google | iPhone | regulation | Yahoo

Balancing power: Google v. AP, Yahoo! v. Geocities users, AT&T v. Skype

We try to be good to one another. Sometimes it’s just about power.

The Associated Press newswire told search engines to pay for showing stories, or to stop showing them. [Ironic link above: AP story hosted on Google.] How quickly would AP enter bankruptcy if none of their stories showed up in Google News [...]

analysis | AT&T | Business | carriers | competition | FCC | regulation | USA

AT&T caved on Voice over Cell. 12 Attacks To Come?

AT&T loathes Skype. Skype costs them international calling money and changes consumer expectations in ways mobile carriers cannot respond. So AT&T forbid Apple to permit Skype voice calls over the wireless network. It worked for two years. Now that barrier is down, how else can they slow or stop Skype? To bring a humble Skype [...]

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

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