Cisco sells video calling and video conferencing as “collaboration.” Not true. It’s a medium for communication. Communication is not collaboration. Here’s what their pitch looks like:
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I’m looking at today’s Inbox Love Conference agenda through a filter of Skype product and ecosystem strategy. What can Skype learn from email’s long legacy? Where might they fit together? A unified inbox – with chats, social/work updates, emails, events, tasks, and calls – would be very useful; one place to check. http://mail.Skype.com? Twilio’s Jeff [...] Today is Hug an Estonian Day on Facebook via Plancast. Jaanus Tõnisson wrote: 24th of February is the Estonian Independence Day. This event was created because we feel that Estonians have a not so good image around the world. That’s mainly created by newspapers, radios and TV, which hunt the bad news for coverage, as [...] Checking just now, 29,527,474 accounts were connected to the Skype network. That will be close to today’s peak. That’s a lift of 12.8 million from 16.7 logged in last night. This suggests Skype is running at about 177 million active users. Skype’s dial tone is a measure of the value of the network to users; [...] I don’t know why I’m flabbergasted; I should know better. Maybe I’ve been swept up in pride over Tunisia’s and Egypt’s fight for Democracy over entrenched power. And then Hillicon Valley reports a GOP briefing memo lumps Skype and Google in with carriers when it comes to net neutrality. The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee [...] 3 | Business | KDDI | mobile | mobileworldcongress | partners | Skype Partner Watch | skypelandia | Verizon Skype’s newly announced Mobile Partner Program for operators continues work it has done with mobile operators Verizon (US), KDDI au (Japan) and Hutchison 3 (UK). In each case Skype offered thin clients for mobile phones that talked to the Skype cloud through gateways hosted at the operator’s data centers. This meant lighter use of 3G [...] Business | Europe | events | marketing | mobileworldcongress | Skype | Skype Access | Skype Partner Watch | skypelandia | Spain | wi-fi Skype Access is a little known feature of Skype. It lets you buy Wi-Fi access by the minute from more than five million hotspots. Access’s two selling points: pay by the minute only for what you need, and pay with Skype credits at 19 cents a minute (US$11.40/hour). Skype Access is free in Spain this [...] I broke the news Wednesday that Skype has “fair use” guidelines for group video calling. I haven’t talked to Skype’s price/policy team so I can only speculate why their Skype Premium prices are structured this way. Why would Skype cap Group Video Calls at 4 hours per call, 10 hours per calendar day (GMT), [...] Download Skype for Windows 5.2.0.102. A few minor tweaks, a bunch of bug fixes, but it is a Beta version. Beta, in this case, means early exposure to new bugs and new features, although few new features are now visible. [...] Group Video Calling Fair Usage Policy Group video calls are subject to a fair usage limit of 100 hours per month with no more than 10 hours per day and a limit of 4 hours per individual video call. Once these limits have been reached, the video will switch off and the call will [...] Download Skype for iPhone 3.0.1. “You can now make video calls to a wider selection of Skype clients and devices, such as Skype for TV.” UPDATE: Skype’s blog post reveals iSkype now supports H.264 video. Dan York explains “Skype has added the higher quality H.264 video codec to the app. As noted, this will let [...] Download the Skype for Mac 5.0.0.7994 hotfix. Release notes say this fixes bugs, including the one where Skype takes control of your webcam. Download external webcam drivers if you need them. Only for Intel Macs with Leopard or newer. [...] Skype announced Skype Premium subscriptions at CES2011 last month. Ads are showing up inside Skype clients promoting the package. The ads offer 33% off until month-end and 25% off an HD webcam. They cite group video calling and live chat customer support, both exclusive features of the Premium plan. Skype Premium’s logo is [...] Last week I published my second interview with Skype CEO Tony Bates. He shared a few of his ideas about values that will guide Skype through coming challenges and growth, the way Cisco’s guided them. Tony’s list was, roughly: Engineering will lead product innovation. Skype is a truly global company. Skype must speed bringing [...] |
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