This release fixes a few bugs that might affect you including “Video was not started when making numerous video calls during one Skype session” and “Skype crashing on startup for some users.” Download the update and share your own bugs.
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Skype is hiring about 350 people this year, many for its new Palo Alto, California, offices. They’ve a SkypeCareers.com site and @skypejobs tweeted job lists. The Wall Street Journal reports Skype Won’t IPO Until Second Half This Year. Their sources speculate it is to wait for better market conditions for the IPO and/or for Skype’s new CEO, Tony Bates, to have time to make Skype even more attractive to investors. I agree with Andy Abramson that Skype [...] Most folks seem to like the new Skype for Mac 5.0 Gold release, now out of beta and charging for group video calls. Download version 5.0.0.7980. Users appreciate the slimmer screen real estate by about 20 to 1, according to an early look at Scout Labs. Tip: You can reduce Skype’s footprint [...] 37Signals looked at their data and will shut down their OpenID service. Good on you for treating OpenID‘s usability issues seriously and for designing a smooth transition path. You gave it a shot for three years and it didn’t work out. I’d love to have the 37Signals team come to the place OpenID [...] Last week 28.2 million Skype users were online at the same time, setting a record high water mark for Skype dial tone. This week’s high was 28.4 million, a 0.7% growth in seven days. If this keeps up for half a year, dial tone will rise to 33 million and active users to 200 million. [...] The number of Skype accounts concurrently logged in to the Skype network hit a new high of 28.2 million today, despite (because of?) this being a national holiday in the United States. Dial tone is a measure of Skype’s capacity: those logged in can use Skype’s services. More importantly, they increase the chances that [...] Here is Nicole Lazzaro of XEODesign presenting her Four Fun Keys. You apply them to create games’ four most important emotions: Hard Fun: Fiero – in the moment personal triumph over adversity Easy Fun: Curiosity Serious Fun: Relaxation and excitement People Fun: Amusement, hanging out with friends. As we bring game design to work design, [...] The big red line shows billions of minutes of phone calls made the traditional way: phone to phone over the pubic phone networks. 413 billion minutes this year. The big blue line shows Skype-to-Skype and SkypeOut calls, 102 billion minutes this year. Big deal? No and yes. No, since nearly all regular calls [...] I’ve loved MetroPCS for years, a breath of competitive fresh air in an oligopolic mobile industry. They innovate on pricing and contract terms to make mobile service more affordable for millions in America’s cities. Now they’re blocking Skype. Ouch. Are Skype bits more expensive than YouTube bits? Can MetroPCS hold Skype bits ransom for [...] I wish Skype communicated outages and other issues more clearly. Tell me: what’s going on, how it affects me, what I can do about it for now, that you’ll let me know about status and resolution, what happens when the event is over. Here’s a mockup of a dialog Skype desktop clients could offer. [...] I’m just asking. Skype will be reporting about $1 billion in revenue this year. Profitable every quarter for years. Spritely growth in revenue and usage. Adjacent markets for them to enter, like business conferencing, event search and scheduling, collaboration, cloudwork delivery. Platform plans for consumer electronics, mobile apps and web services. What’s cooler is [...] |
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