Guys
Better check the url for the SkypeCasting link in the article. It refers to "http://http//www.henshall.com/blog/archives/001056.html".

Strangely enough, when clicked I get forwarded to Microsft.com ...

Although a cool proof of Skype's ability, all of this can be achieved:

a) Without a Skype plugin.
and b) Without Skype.

I don't disagree with the project, I just think the idea of Pod/TeleCasting for Skype is getting milked alot, way too fast. IMHO, there would be a very small commercial market for something like this.

-rabbit

Hi Rabbit,
Others like the ORB example are already speculating on the commercial opportunities which this could enable for free. There's a growing model and demand for being able to access your own information. Increasingly I don't want to carry round years of info that could all be lost or the only "music" or DVD collection. Having access to it for nothing just bandwidth may be appealing. If you could do this with Skype, it will make the ORB business models very hard to make a profit from.

yes, all these skype features/ideas/newly added stuff seems heavy on the nerd attraction meter.

where's the real people feature attration stuart?

think out of the box (real world) and get out of your box (segregated minimalistic viewpoints)

P.S. i know the post wont make it...no matter

its reached it's intended audience.

you

I had to think about “you know who” (I have no idea who!) comment for a few minutes. I hope this post was well intentioned. If you have ideas for the real people feature attractions please share. I find playing games with unknown names can be a fool’s game. Sometimes privacy is important and I respect that too.

Still your point hit home; perhaps not the target you intended, and prodding often generates some thought takes something further. You are right I took a pretty geeky approach to the wow you could do this without providing the story of why it could be interesting. Sometimes that’s just the case flag something, let it roll around and maybe we can find a good use for it. I agree it just “neat” doesn’t make it a possibility.

I’m not sure where the out of the box answer is yet. Put this live TV type offering together with 3 others in a conference call and you could create some form of newscast, or commentary. Particularly if this was in an iChat like Tiger format. This would also enable me to watch a Crewe soccer match with my father while we are both a long way from the UK. The leap is probably not connecting Skype to the TV, rather the capability to watch it together in real time, even while being mobile.

When 9/11 happened my brother was in Tokyo airport watching CNN, I was the only one he knew in a time zone with which he could share the news. He woke me up early, and as a result I have an image I will never forget. I watched the second plane hit the second tower in real time. That image could have been part of a SkypeTV call. He was lucky.. all he had to say was.. Turn on CNN. For many other events we can’t see it or participate like this.

The SkypeTiVo and TV approaches represent potential for “unintended” consequences. I’m sure the Skype team set out with the design request to provide web cam functionality and bring the “picture phone to the masses. I wanted to suggest that it may be put to other uses. That’s not wrong, just look for unexpected surprises.

och...Crewe Alexandra...no premiership favs Stuart ? :)

I'd rather find the SkypeTivo an exciting concept, simply because it ties TV content with Skype's social framework, and that alone can spawn some cool types of experience.

You probably have heard about the PARC group that works on Social TV models -> http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/00000084.htm