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Refreshing new face for Skype Video add-on
October 18, 2005 03:18 AM | Bill Campbell

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“Festoon”, not vSkype”, says the new CEO Santa Cruz Networks, Itizk Cohen. “We have a new product name and a new CEO”, Itzik grinned.

“We are putting fun into video conferencing. We are creating eye candy for our video conferencing application Just like Skype adds expressive media content with its ring tones and buttons”.

Product Manager, Sam Baron walked me through Festoon’s new “Eye Candy”. “When you play with eye candy Bill, make the Festoon window big."

So I did that...

So I did that with eye candy "Inversion"

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If you are part of the pre-baby boom crowd you’ll remember Rowan & Marten’s Laugh-In which played from 1968 to 73.

If you are part of today’s generation you all ready know about Rooster Teeth Productions of Red Vs Blue

The video hat Marketing Director Max Montgomery put together reminds me of both.

Soon we will be creating great content in Festoon and delivering it to 100's of millions of Skype users.

Exciting? You bet!


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Two other things have changed in addition to the change in name and CEO...

1. ad banners in their GUI.
2. horrible install/upgrade/automatic update processes.

They are in the Beta process, I know... my complaint is that this is their second beta cycle (vSkype was their first) and things are not looking good.

Posted by: V Moranta at October 17, 2005 09:37 PM

I enjoy reading your blog. It is very informative. Thanks.

Posted by: Geoff at October 18, 2005 09:37 AM

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