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Fun
For the dyslexic: Spyke.com, Earl's Computer Art Gallery. Colorful fractal dragons. Do you think the dragons will eat all of Skype's tld cybersquatters?
telephone burbles
scrambling to find the window
finally answered!
ringing through the net
freedom to connect at will
doomed to voicemail
Mumbai to Madrid
Antarctica to Shanghai
Skypenet shakes the world
Can you hear me now?
Let me adjust this setting
Can you hear me now?
Only text me first
Mom said don't talk to strangers
Earn my attention
distance is deader
free fast clear text vid voice ping
do you speak english?
fumbled wire headphones
tangled in usb cords
call evades my grasp
hey baby skype me
on our skypenet everyone
knows you are a dog
When will it roll over to
First off, let's look at writing. The American Management Association wants writing interns to write a book on making deals online. Has Skype helped you make a deal? If not, the you may want to swing by the World Association of Newspapers conference in Seoul. 29 May - 1 June. If blogging is journalism, what is skyping? The next day another conference, TrendTag (Trend Day) in Hamburg looks like a great time for quants and futurists. 2 June. For more events I find interesting, see my list on evdb.com, including The 8th Asia Pacific IP Telephony, Singapore, the Wireless Community Conference, Monterey, California, INBOX, San Jose, California (where I want to learn more about spam over IP telephony), and SUPERCOMM Chicago.
We all want more from Skype. A million Apple fiends are all goosepimply with excitement that Spymac is adding Skype, maybe to become SkypeMac? This popular Macintosh portal adds SkypeMe to its user profiles, forums, to push realtime conversation on news and user posts. I wonder what Skype video will do to portals and online communities? Or to libraries: 26 steps for effective web presence in libraries includes Skype.
Martin Geddes is craving a long list of Skype client features. He ain't alone. Jan's Tech Blog says Skype's SkypeOut Dialing Wizard helps you sort out international numbers before you spend those SkypeOut minutes. Build it into the next release, please.
I'm fascinated by Consumer Casting Conversations (fr) who are using Skypecasting for market research. via Franck Dumesnil. Reminds me of Sparkcasts' beercasting. Gregory Narain, are you listening?
Skype's shaking people up.
Some band together: the Internet Telephony Services Providers’ Association is trying to make the world safe for Skype and Skypers and others of our ilk.
Others resort to force, as Hello Estonia sees it: Next call for Net phoning : Regulation. The idea of using Skype for emergency calls is beyond belief, per Richard Cobbett. "What wonderful, idyllic, crime-free world does he see in the morning, where technology is reliable and the internet doesn’t die on a daily basis?" Read Richard's "He’s got a gnu!" for a serious chuckle. All the fear mongering could lead to an Online Dating Patriot Act sponsored by True.
If you take comfort in your toolkit, Make your own Skype phone. Not for the faint of screwdriver.
Skype isn't yet a railroad on today's Blogpoly.
Today is the 70th anniversary of the board game Monopoly; ZF has whipped up a clever board for BLOGOPOLY, a Monopoly based on blogging. It's pretty cute! Boing Boing
For a hoot on Saturday.. SkypeOwl set to finding weird and wonderful usernames. Just proves many many Skypers must have more than one! Btw do you have your company name and variations registered?
From the obscene to the unintelligible, Skype users across the world are showing their creativity (or mental imbalance) in their choice of Skype usernames. The Skype Owl, in association with Skype-headset-reviews.com, has nominated its Top Ten Stupid Skype Usernames and is inviting readers to submit their favourites for inclusion on the list, at www.skype-headset-reviews.com/usernames Top Ten stupid Skype usernames exposed by The Skype Owl* 1: Baboonexecutioner3000 * 2: Smellybumhead * 3: Eggeggeggeggegg * 4: Thealcoholwithin * 5: Mysticalsock * 6: Spankmeimbritish * 7: Roboturkey * 8: Pricklady * 9: Motherofbeetle * 10: Squirreloncrack
What I like about Skype is it's got all ages excited and imaginative minds working on new ways of doing things. At the request of a commenter I'm sharing with you that a Skype Chat RSS reader is working, and a Skype GoogleBot similarly integrated to work in Skype Chat. Using the same methods the chat channel can also be used for blog writing and many other commands. My friend Rabbit didn't stop there. I'm just waiting now for the full SkypeBot launch.
Plus these bots can be customised just like many others. Many who read this blog may also be familiar with Joi Ito's #joiito IRC channel at irc.freenode.net. JoiBot can be entertaining. On other sites round the net there are many entertaining solutions.
continue reading.....I have a new friend who has a good idea for a telephonic service -- it really should come standard on certain cell phones -- and would be worth the price. Special voice mail left on your phone by sexy blondes saying sexy things. I think it's genius. Now what would you pay?
And a Fortune 500 company is born...
Really, what fun stuff from the world of telephony would you like to see in Skypeland?
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