Skype Journal: Skype Voice Messaging... the sweet and sour
June 2, 2005 11:58 AMThe new Skype Windows beta release 1.3.0.29 has two new features I like.
1. Voice Messaging.
Sweet.
As a VM subscriber I can now send a Voice Message up to 10 minutes duration to anyone in Skypeland. That will make Stuart happy. He requested this feature a few weeks ago here.
Sour.
Along with the voice message the recipient gets this "i" for information icon message and an advertisment:
So far this is tastefully done. Let's hope it stays that way.
2. The Start Menu is gone and with it some bloat. It is replaced with a Services and Events bars underneath my contacts list both of which can be minimized achieving an uncluttered look.
View the Change Log here. Lot's of positive new changes.
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Looks great - but is the new build still unstable/buggy as the first ver 1.3 was?
Sliding into something else - I wonder if and when Skype will decide to support skins for the client. I'd like to play with other skype UI flavours.
Posted by: Uri L. at June 2, 2005 6:01 PM
Hey Uri!
Welcome to Skype Journal!
The new build 1.3.0.29 is preforming quite a bit better. I had one crash and one "cannot connect" issue today. VM is better. I only had two issues of Error 2 (failure to connect correcly to the server), but I was able to remember what I said (unusual) and resend the VM. This issue will only affect users over 55. Grin
Posted by: Bill Campbell at June 2, 2005 6:37 PM
Thanks for the details, Bill :)
Actually now I'm a little hasitant about installing this ver. Will wait 'till Tuesday to see if there's a newer build. The r&d guys at Skype usually fix those errors quickly.
Btw - > following up on Phil's link to "Consumer Casting Conversation" - Franck has re-posted his idea in English -> http://www.blogperformance.com/archives/consumer_casting_conversations_in_english.html
Interesting vision.
Posted by: Uri L. at June 3, 2005 12:55 PM