Live from Las Vegas #017: Meet Phil Wolff (Skype Journal) [English]

Download: Movie (.mp4)

More information on the skypejournal.com.

Phil gives us his top 2 predictions for 2006 related to Skype, and his 2 dream features for the next release of Skype.

Update: taken at the CES camp with my Nokia N90.

See also a short clip of Stuart Henshall playing with his Nokia N90.

Carol for the Skype Journal Team from Skype

Play the video.

SkypeJournal the online blogsite
Its full of very techie prose (or pro’s?)
So if you’ve got a question
They’re always the ones who know

All of the other bloggers
Use to laugh and call them names.
They never let SkypeJournal
Join in any blogging games

Then the day that VOIP turned up
Skypers came to say
SkypeJournal with your brain so bright
Won’t you guide our way tonight

Then all the bloggers of them
As they shouted out in glee
SkypeJournal you’re our heroes
You’ll go down in history!

Exclusive to Skype Journal. “Festoon”, not vSkype”, says Itizk Cohen, the new CEO of Santa Cruz Networks. “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"

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 that 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!

Flash your smile around the globe. This WigiWigi is the best video application I have tested. Others agree.

"It's great... cool... this is awesome, I love it", commented Adnan Topuz President of AdoSoft INC in Toronto, Canada.

"This is amazing, this is amazing, this is great stuff". Charles Power, CEO of a web dating site Friendsation

This screenshot tells part of the story. It is my fellow tester Johnny in Denmark who was helping me test today.

last week I wrote that Wigi was not ready for prime time. Wait before downloading. Wait no more.

I wrote this User Quidebook to help you get going. Download here.

This amazing program is only 400 KB in size. That is less than half the size of Dialcom's Video4IM application. 10 seconds to download; 10 seconds to install and configure. And it works with any Instant Messaging Client from AOL to Yahoo.

The fluidity of the video is just outstanding. With speed set at 100 percent move your head back and forth like a pendulum. No tearing, no pixelation. The lip sync is perfect.

Look at this resolution of ten point type!

And look at this perfect colour!

Does it get better than this? Yup. Soon Ashod will have multi-party conferencing.