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I bought the Logitech headphones, keyed in a user name and password and entered the voucher number that came with the headphones. Once I heard a guy trying to talk to me but he could not hear me. Now I hear the musical tomes when I try to test but the womans voice comes out over the computer and my voicemail is silent when played back. The blue light is on, the plus sign has been clicked a lot and the in and out volume on my system preferences is set for the logitech headset and the volume is set in the middle. I keep e-mailing Skipe but never hear back from them. Any suggestons?

There is another service that does P2P streaming as well - Peer Impact. www.peerimpact.com They do streaming using TV shows and movies such as Firefly and V for Vendetta.

I just found something strange, that's not exactly an emoticon, but... well, his hidden, up to my knowledge :)

Try to send to someone the following text (without quotes): "B)"
...and see that it will become "omg, bug!".
Well, at least in Skype 1.3.0.53_API for Linux.
Would it be a bug alert for developers? Who knows?

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Hello everybody,
i would like know from some of you the Skype structure and break down like standalone business...because i'm doing a research for a postgraduate but i can't find interesting stuff on internet .. can you give me some info???
thanks

Yet another re-org at Skype? That's at least the 3rd since eBay took over.

Also (call) gets you a smiley

Annoyingly Gizmo Project got there first, perhaps that's why there is no direct skype input. I tried that once last year and it worked very well with gizmo, but I dont want to clutter my desktop with one client per occasion ;-(

hey! does Sony Mylo has sim card??i'm from VN can i call my friends without simscard

They must be taking lessons from Microsoft. You've been Skyped!

Testing comments after upgrade to comments.

I am registered at the sightspeed with my email address triner@terra.com.br BUT I HAVE FORGOTTEN MY PASSWORD. How can I recover it or make a change?

Thank you.

Dear Etisalat Marketing. You have been blocking skype much earlier that TRA decided to ban it. More over your competitor "du" (former DIC) had never blocked it. Now they started to ban it but fortunately it is not so easy!

Jim - Thanks for your candid feedback about Skype's PR and how we could better work with the blogging community. Our number one goal at Skype is always to create the best possible product for our users. We understand your desire to have more advance notice on product and a thorough briefing -- which I agree is an ideal PR strategy. Given the circumstances of product roll-outs sometimes facing schedule delays, it is difficult for us to go out with a significant advance notice. That said, we will definitely take your feedback into consideration moving forward, and as always, appreciate your support of Skype.

Regards,
Jennifer Caukin,
director of PR
Skype North America

I have tried to transfer money to my Skype account both from positive Master Card and VISA, but I receive a message via mail from Skype "we have cancelled your order". >Now for 6 times. This is a nonsens system when you are not given an alternative to pay- or an explanation you can use. Hvat can I do???
Regards
Barsoe

sudmaker :)

so
1. who is paying for the cellular call?
2. if there a differnce between circuit-switched and IP coverage for mobile handsets?

Wow! This is great news for mobile users, a flat fee for Bandwith finally no per minute voice plans on your mobile, cant wait to see this happen in America!

Well, hate is such a strong word. I have have had my N80 since july and yes the signal is week and the Battery life time is almost not existing... If you really use some of the features that makes phone "fun"... you will only have some hours... Don't buy this phone...

I understand the technology for this is provided by VoIP, Inc. the same company who has been providing Google's Click to Call service since December 2005. This company also provided the technology behind a promotional campaign for the new season of "America's Next Top Model" on the CW Network which allowed allows fans to send and receive personalized phone messages from Trya Banks, the show's star. he company also worked lk on the successful "Snakes on a Plane" phone campaign that featured the voice of Samuel L. Jackson.

And, in October, VoIP, Inc. began powering what could be the largest Click to Call promotional campaigns ever developed, for the NFL Network.

It's all on their website, www.voipinc.com. Check out TMC's Rich Tehrani's blog about this too: link.

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Not bad, not bad...
Can better? ;)

"It also shows that TalkPlus has engineered a server without Skype components that talks to the Skype network as if it were a Skype client using Skype's own language" - Please explain how you reached this conclusion - sounds like they are just running skype clients on a server. Have Talkplus actually confirmed that they have reversed engineered Skypes protocols or is this just fantasy journalism?

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I just instal skype beta 3 and the new feature is really great. please visit www.skype-china.net for detail if you are Chinese

Have a Jabra BT205 and have a logitech MX900 wireless mouse connected to my laptop, thourhg its bluetooth receiver which detects my phone and various other bluetooth devices, but fails to detetc my jabra headset. Please advise. thanks.

Per Dean Bubley:

"... contrary to various reports, the Skype service is NOT wVoIP - it's a circuit-switched call from the phone into a Skype VoIP gateway in 3's network. I suspect this is because of both radio resource inefficiency of VoIPo3G, and the limitations on indoor coverage. The Skype client on the phone uses IP-based presence, which works over 3G or 2G."

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The only benefit I can see is for international calling from your mobile phone. All other calls would just eat up your mobile minutes anyways, right?

To be honest, i was too fast and too busy to dig into the new client. And the change log (the only thing i looked at before posting in my blog) isn't of any help when you want really to say "oooh, fantastic!".

And i really fooled myself, thinking it would be a renamed 2.6, so again: "mea culpa".

no pirat flag??

Ed,
If you little specific about the data Entry work, I could help you in India to get it done.
Thanks!
-Dave (email)

Very true gunjan, but this product if free. And although I love what the Call Center offers this has more exciting implications for non-technophiles.

Om - our product, the VoSKY Call Center, has enabled mobile callers to make (and receive) Skype calls for almost a year.

When setting up name and password both got rolled into one long user name. They require seperating and re insertion.
Please tell me me how to do this !!! Ihave never sent any previous requests for assistance

Thanks John Brookie.

anybody know how many clients can talk in one conference?

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There won't be any Skype for nokia 9300 or 9500. A guy from Skype was interviewed here in Spain not long ago, and I asked him about my nokia 9500. He said there will be just one version for symbian 60 exclusively, cos apparently its the most spread. Skype for symbian is a nightmare to develop, according to his words, so they ar enot going to pay plenty of attention.

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I would love a program like this. I no longer have any sort of 'normal' phone service; I used to use a fax-by-phone program to send faxes via my landline from my computer, but can no longer do that. If there were a fax program that would dial via Skype, that would be a marvelous solution. I don't need to send faxes often, but it would be great for when email doesn't work but snailmail is too slow.

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You know i agree with your analysis (and explanation), but i don't agree that the 8 million is meaningless!

It is visible, strong, unique and as such doesn't tell us anything more than "record number of concurrent users online" ... and that is anyway aninteresting number ;-)

Simply restart Skype every day or so and you'll never become a super-node, with no side affects.



Of course, if everyone was this selfish, the entire Skype network would fall apart, because it needs super-nodes to run.

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I suggest to the problem existing regarding to the voip problem.
If you want to use skype try to use httptunnel. Or proxy server. or maybe port forwarding from other country. so that you can access any site that has been block by your ISP.

if this information is helpful pls email me if workable or the status of your testing. by the way im from philippines. alexisgacia@yahoo.com

3. Lock out the supernode.

I'm still looking for a reliable method of preventing Supernode mode while still allowing fast file transfers. Anyone?

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I know it's not exactly a solution to this problem, but it's a workaround that works very well. I use a voipvoice uConnect (http://www.voipvoice.com/uconnect.html) to connect a standard ptsn telephone to my skype (I like cordless). When connected you can use the telephone keypad to generate the DTMF tones, and it works perfectly. I was having real trouble ringing my girlfirend's university extension number untill I got this.
James

Oh that Lady Godiva Memorial Bnad (sic); what a handsome bunch of individuals.

Another question: What is the impact of knowing that your IM text messaging dialogue is being recorded for storage on your local PC for later recall? This could be more important in businesses where other parties may have to right to review the content on your PC.
Do you limit what your say knowing it can be recalled?
If the conversation becomes to "confidential", is this a trigger to escalate to a (non-recorded) voice conversation?

I purchased seven of these phones for the office. Within two months, two have had the keypad failure problem. They're not locked (not using the keypad lock feature); they're busted.. I've tried everything.

Is there a 'reset to factory defaults' option somewhere in the basestation/software?

they only way how this will properly work is when you make a skype version for ebyay, specifically fit to the needs of the ebay auctioneer and the way how they currently operate.

i guess these people will use ultraVPN like they do in the UAE and and we will be back at the beginning...
cat and mouse game isn't it?

I'm waiting for skype symbian version, but the Skype is too slow to give a symbian version of the program.

what quality and latency?

I am experiencing so many dropped calls it is rediculous. It isn't just with skype either. I was so frustrated that I got yahoo messanger too, but it drops them too. I can't go 18 seconds without the call failing. Could this just be some program error? A horribly weak signal? Why at 18 seconds? It's like someone is doing it on purpose. Talk to me goose before I go crazy!!!

Downloaded Skype for Mac 2.0.0.6 onto my iMac G5 desktop. Generally pleased with new look and with X-platform interaction. However, my interlocutors report that in the midst of the conversation, my voice suddenly slows down and sounds as if it goes through molasses. No change occurs with their voices.
Nothing seems to be wrong either with my Mac or with the Internet connection. All apps run normally. Any ideas? Thanks.

What is this skype all about?

Hi,

Wow... we are now in November 2006... and Canada is out for Skype.
Cannot believe it... I've only been waiting for the good news since 2 years approx.

What is happening with SkypeIn in Canada? A CRTC problem? Or is it the provisioning by Bell or Telus or whatever that is too expensive?
These companies should be scared... That is so true...

But if I were Skype, I'd go ahead... and show them... and satisfy "thousands" of new Canadian customers who are really tired of these old antiquated companies.

This a btw a great media story about the still "hidden" continuous Canadian Telecom monopoly. It is really silly... It is easier to get a phone number in Europe or in the US than in Canada. And Canada is supposedly a world leader in telecom?

In fact I think the CRTC is no big problem but these old companies are... since Skype would need to be somehow provisioned by them.
By the way, I am very happy about Ottawa's surprise decision this week to start taxing income trusts. Who were those income trusts that did not pay tax dollars in Canada: Bell and Telus... surprise surprise!

In the meantime, as recommended, sorry I already took a number with vbuzzer.

Skype, please let us know as soon as you can when you will be able to fully satisfy us Canadians.

Thanks a lot,
John

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I would like to comment, that skype allows you to send a chat message onto a computer, which - in my opinion - is quite a good way to "ring silently". It seemed to work well for me sometimes. It is a silent and polite way to invite someone for a talk. You could even suggest a time when you would call and ask for confirmation.

On the receivers end You can costumize the sound of a skype message to let the baby sleep when such message arrives... What do you think, would this solve this specific problem?

"Yet another reason to recommend Skype to your parents." Parents?? I think it is to a bigger concern for youngsters unless you want another brother or sister in the family.... :-)

More serious though is the fact that nicotine and alcohol also have an impact on the quality of sperm. So if you are a smoking drinker who spends hours on his mobile, the days of your descendanats are counted.

From BELIZE. BTL have the monopol on the Internet and they cut all the comunication ports. It was a trial and the BTL loose the trial. They supose to not cut it down again but... seems like the law is not the same for all.

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new emoticon on 2.6 beta :) (bow), I wonder if there something more :)

My recommendation is that eBay rid themselves of Skype, as it is a toy rather than a professional tool. People can't enter post-dialing DTMF without holding their microphones up to the speakers? You have to be kidding! I have a worldwide team of professionals who purchased this solution mainly for conference calls that don't work without entering a PIN (which it NEVER does). And the rub is... we are about 50/50 Windows and Mac.
Run away from Skype until this is fixed!!! I would also recommend applying pressure on eBay to return any money invested until rectified. This is sophomoric for entities that profess to be professional. I think that the result speaks for itself (again, run away!!!).

witopia 39$ ? I found something cheaper there: http://ultravpn.lynanda.com . it's 4.90$!
I guess everyone already uses it...
Sorry if you already paid for this witopia!!

U need at least skype 2.6 to use (bow)

The trick we're trying to solve here is to record your Mic mixed with Skype's Wave Out without feeding your Mic into your headphones.

The trick we're trying to solve here is to record your Mic mixed with Skype's Wave Out without feeding your Mic into your headphones

Hi,
I have a t43 IBM with built in bluetooth. My Sony Ericsson HBH 610a is recognized by the built in bluetooth software. However, when I go into Skype to tools/options/sound devices I can't select 'bluetooth' under audio in. I downloaded the most recent version of skype. What else can i try? the other threads are a little confusing. Thanks!

The study of choices in the allocation of scarce resources resources has a name -- "economics".

If there's one thing that the computing age should have taught us it's that scarcity is temporary. Although I'll grant that we make up for that by adding complexity every time we switch from scarcity to abundance. What's really irritating about the Net Neutrality debate is that it's framed as a response to scarcity when the scarcity is being artificially created. Switch from scarcity to abundance and the problem disappears. Or in the terms above, QOS becomes irrelevant if the pipes are big and fast enough.

We should be push, push, pushing for faster broadband at the same price, because comms storage and switching hardware are all dropping in price and increasing in capacity every day.

AnyRoadUp the USA problem is a government mandated and controlled Duopoly. And the solution is a government mandated and controlled marketplace. But clearly that's not going to happen.

Hi Martin !

First of all : taxes and rebates are all but a wise solution for two reasons :
1. they will generate overhead because you need at least some infrastructure to manage these transactions.
2. the overhead will increase with cheaters. There will be coalitions etc.. and this will induce another overhead = the control structure.

Second point is : how do you find the right price for this ? After years of having been milked by Telco Operators behaving more or less like cartels (no defamation here : at least in France the 3 mobile operators were already condemened by justice for illegal secret agreement on prices) we will end up with the same kind of issues with your system. And then will come more State to attenuate the excessive strength of ISPs position.

The main issue behind all this is that the relationship between individual customers and service providers is biased from the very begining : the access to information about the reality of the market is clearly in favor of the corporation (It is not an ideological problem.. but simply a resources' one).

Since your grey celles are working well, and fast (I really like to read your posts, even if I do not agree with all of them) I am really looking forward to read the original idea you will have to solve this ;-)

what's this software name? looks very cool

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when i signed my infinitum contract i read a clause that says "it is forbiden to use infinitum for voip applications" of course i dont care and i use skype all the time, so if they catch me and want to break the contract i will subcribe to cableacces....

One thing that's troubled me with this latest Pocket PC release, through beta, and now into production, is that my Windows Mobile based Treo has been abandoned.The new release requires a 400Mhz processor, which the Treo lacks.

And it sounds like a small thing, but it means the end of SkypeIn, SkypeOut, Skype on the PC and Skype on the mobile for me. I'll shift completely and move to something that I can actually use. And my home office number, a SkypeIn number, will slowly die and be replaced with something I can use on my mobile.

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4th Open source zealots. (That's not a term of abuse. I'm one as well!) who don't like proprietary protocols because it limits what hackery they can do to extend the system.

Skype could win some favours with these people by providing stub code that can interact with the protocol and that is easily callable from common dvelopment environments on multiple platforms and especially open platforms such as Linux. The so called "Naked Skype". There's plenty of precedent for closed proprietary drivers on open systems to simultaneously protect the vendor and open access. And it can be done in such a way that none of the open licenses are violated.

can someone tell me how to use a Plantronics P590 with skype?

By listing only such "evil-doers" as the only people opposed to Skype, you misrepresent some valid Skype criticisms, IMHO.

Not all those that have some concerns with Skype should be characterized in black hats. There are other reasons besides those you list. And the fact that you do not acknowledge some of the less than "white-hat" aspects of Skype, puts into question your neutrality on the subject.

If Skype were the white-hats you purport them to be, they would open the protocol.

Folks, thanks for all of the comments above. THey helped me get started with taping a Skype conversation.
Can you help me level a taped Skype conversation? The voice of my party is about 2 times less strong then mine. What is the command in Audacity to equalize both voices?
Thanks much!
Plamen

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Skype had been blocked by the TRC because of legitimate security concerns relating to its codes and protocols.

So what does that mean? Strong encryption?

The nokia e61 has wlan to talk to sip and many servers needs s60 3rd ed. Will the codec be available before pocket pc.

"VoIP has heavy demand on the volume of data required":
Yes and no, it is not the traffic for voice calls that require most data, but the traffic to maintain the presence of your contact list that is the heaviest. And of course we are working on improving that :)

(I'm working in the Skype embedded team)

I checked every one of the phone rang sites, and most were Chinese sites.

This is Jeff Kastner, producer of the Simple Green U.S. Open of Handball production. Recently, a number of my video projects have involved getting the sport of handball more visible in the media, and I have to say the NFT has been a HUGE blessing. This was our fouth live streaming event this year (second with NFT) and the savings over unicast streaming are enormous, not to mention getting a really cool video player! And the customer service from NFT and CDN partner, StreamGuys, has been first-rate.

For the U.S. Open, we had a $30k filming budget and I was able to hire a great crew and use the best HD cameras for a TV production. But we knew there are handball fans all over the world, with a big population in Ireland and we wen't going to reach them with conventional TV, and especially not live TV...unless it was on the web. We ended up having viewers on almost every continent, all watching the event live, as it happened in Orange County.

Prettty amazing technology! Remember NFT...you'll be hearing a lot more from them in the future.

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I remember well the general reaction to answering machines upon their introduction. It went like this: how dare [the called party] expect me to talk to a machine?

And it was awkward learning to talk to a machine. And humiliating if there was someone in the room with you while you were "leaving a message" for the called party. It was, like, "Dude, you got fobbed off to a machine."

Today, of course, we're somewhat resentful when we *can't* leave a message on the machine ("What, don't they have a machine?") How times change.

I bought my first answering machine in 1991, and I remember precisely why: to ensure I would not miss information left by callers on apartments I wanted to rent.

Skype Journal, That first comment by "PhoneRanger" should be deleted. It is obviously spam for the Chinese company Gridfold. Why do I say that?
It is pretty simple as all the systems of these companies mentioned by this spammer are just filler so he can promote his company at the end of his post.

Let me explain the above mentioned fall into two categories; number 1 the Chinese (which steal bandwidth by using "unrestricted supernodes", take your bandwidth when you are not watching, and do not respect copywrite). Obviously these Chinese solutions will be blocked by both IT professionals for the "unrestricted supernode" approach and bandwidth stealing, and will be fought by broadcasters/content owners because they steal copy written material. And stealing is what they are built to do.

And number 2, the others like Rawflow and Zatoo which do not have a working product for video (the majority have no product at all and are little more than a website). For example RawFlow are only doing AUDIO, and if you follow the current links on their site (as of this posting) one of their quote un quote "partners" links takes you to the "partner" CDN site where you can only find information about the company Phil originally wrote about NFT. As a second example PhoneRanger mentioned Zatto which has only ever been a website and a press release. In May they posted (New York and San Francisco, May 24, 2006) on their site claiming they were going to stream the World Cup. Did they stream the World Cup (I think we would have heard about that)? Has their site even been updated since then? The answer is "no" on both.

So back to the point, Phil is correct in that NFT is the only company out their with a working, copywrite respecting, "non supernode", non bandwidth stealing, solution........ that is until The Venice project is unveiled (and I can not wait for that). Enjoy

"This is a market that fundamentally picks up a handset, "dials" a number (or looks it up in an embedded directory to dial) and makes contact with the called party. Unless it can perform this basic simple algorithm for establishing a voice connection,"

I think if you looked at our service you would find that this is exactly what we do. Although we have been lumped in with some of the more complex callback solutions, our user experience after registration and set up is very simple and very straight forward. The whole process is about to get even more so.

Once you set up your local number, all you do to call that contact is just dial the number. It's that easy. Any phone can use it, no downloads, no software.

Please feel free to give the service a test, we would welcome any feedback. We are a small company with a very loyal and fast growing user base our product which is pretty cool already (if I do say so myself) is about to get a lot cooler. And one thing we always do, is listen to our customers.

Kindest Regards,
Ryan Gallagher.

With this company NFT, and what the Skype/Venice guys are promising, sounds like we are finally going to get real "TV" over the internet! Its about time!

I got some concerns about skype contact list. Is it possible to show or embed contact list in a webpage? or for example i have alrady installed skype toolbar, can i automalically load or show the contact list as the page loads, using some scripts?

People looking to integrate Asterisk - the open source PBX - and Skype, should take a look at ChanSkype, the first 100% Asterisk channel driver for the Skype network.

Don't forget the other players in the P2P Streaming space. qqlive, pplive, zattoo, MySee, Mediazone, TVU, Roxbeam/Coolstreaming, TVKOO, UUsee, RawFlow, Vidoo and of course www.gridfold.com. I think Gridfold is the best but then I'm biased.

"SJ is a widely-read blog (typically in the top 1% of all blogs on the Internet) and we draw an enormous amount of comment spam. Our spam filters clean out about a thousand a day but a dozen still get through for each human comment. So I moderate .... [snip]. I'm working on technical means to improve this but I'm not there yet."

Phil,
I'd like to see where those statistics on Internet blogs come from.

I of course empathize with your dilemma, but the signal to noise ratio, as it were, keeps going down. To encourage good comments and make the blog interesting, you have to have a strict posting policy. I'd much rather see no comments at all than trivial comments.

I note also that the Skypejournal website is very flat. You have some editor "personalities" and their postings, plus a "river" of comments (flowing who knows where). That's it. The site design does not reflect the multiple markets that Skype serves (potentially at least), nor the layers of functionality in the software itself.

aaytch

I do not feel missing video. I have dial-up connection. But soon I hope to have ADSL, so... I want video too flykoo

to make the compatibility possible they reduced video resolution on powerpc. now it's really bad even with faster systems. i had to go back to the older version. bad move.

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I'm not sure if this is a dead link or not, but clicking on it just directs me to the Skype Extras page.
I'm trying start the Skype Cert process for out company's software and would really like to see what Mr. Hammink has to say.
Is there an active link for this video elswhere?
If so, it's much appreciated.

Jeff

Please email me a copy of the instructions to operate Skype. I am a old age pensioner and am not a expert computer user (iMac Mini OSX).
I have great difficulty linking up with calls to and from my family. I am sure others like me have the same problem.
Thank you.
Len Scarff

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Do you think anyone reads all this?

I use both Skype and Gizmo. I also host a podcast so recording calls is absolutely vital. Gizmo works right out of the box, just hit the record button and do your show. Skype does not and needs "third" party plugins. As with everything in life, use what works best for your personal requirements.

I tried and could not get Gizmo to even work on my PC. I tried, I think at least 20 times to create a password and username and it choked every time. I never even got to see the main interface. I prefer Skype - easy.

Now if Skype would just get that RECORD button it would make it a lot easier for us podcasters! Then it would be the killer app for me and the only thing holding it back.

aaytch, please accept my apologies for the slowdown in post moderation. Your concerns are valid so let me clarify.

SJ is a widely-read blog (typically in the top 1% of all blogs on the Internet) and we draw an enormous amount of comment spam. Our spam filters clean out about a thousand a day but a dozen still get through for each human comment. So I moderate the comments, which means that, for now, they are slow to flow through the system. They are slower when I'm on the road for business (last week in San Diego for the Internet Telephony conference) or for family (this week). I'm working on technical means to improve this but I'm not there yet.

I do filter for content, a little. Since we started in February 2005 (21 months ago), I've stopped about three or four comments that were hand written spam, two more featuring racial slurs, a few where the same comment was reposted by accident, and a handful that appeared to be randomly generated words. Since I launched the comment river on the front page, I sometimes edit a comment so it fits in the narrow column, but not to change a comment's meaning.

If you Google for "Naked Conversations", you'll find an online conversation about blogging and online community. Authenticity and transparency are core values of the blogosphere. As people take up online writing, especially on behalf of an enterprise, those values and the practices which embody them need to be taught; the Israel/Scoble book is a fine place to start. We aspire to live up to that ethic.

Thanks for keeping us honest. Your thoughtful and heartfelt observations are always welcome.

I don't know what your definition of "naked conversations" is (your link explained precisely nothing), but my definition does not include having a gatekeeper. Skypejournal is the one of the few Internet blogs I know of where a gatekeeper, a.k.a an editor, prevents free critique of editors' postings. So, if you're going to talk about "naked conversations" being at the core of Skypejournal, and if you're going to edit (even moderately) or slow down the pace of readers' responses, there might be a credibility issue.

This is a test as I have had some reports that "Comments are not allowed". As a disciple of Shel Israel's and Robert Scoble's Naked Convertsations we want and appreciate your comments and feedback.

Update: In the Comments Preview I notice there are some (excellent) comments getting through.

If there continue to be any "Comments" access problems let us know and Phil (who manages the technical side of Skype Journal) will look into it.

1-I am running Skype on an Apple Powerbook and attempting to use an H500 Motorola Bluetooth headset/earpiece, but it locks up my computer. What am I doing wrong?
2-Or, can you suggest another bluetooth earpiece that works with Apple/Skype setup?

thanks, Vic

Thanks for the numbers. The user numbers are very impressive, though I'm not sure if we really know what they represent.

The revenue growth is a bit slower than anticipated, but in the long-term it isn't of dire consequence yet. What is of consequence, it Skype's business model. I suppose much has to be considered with regards to the EBay mash-up, which is difficult to measure. Though, I don't think it's particularly beautiful.

Do we know how Skype will generate significant revenues in the future? Will advertising ever play into the picture? Will enterprise systems be a source of major revenue? Will Skype open up their network and protocols to enlarge their ecosystem? What will change to enhance the business model? These are the big questions.

Mobile phone royalites are going to be extremely competitive soon. The devices are limited in use today and in the forseeable future. Other IM's will soon compete with more familiar brand, albeit Skype is more advanced in features. Carriers will begin deploying their own UMA and dual-mode devices soon. Many factors to consider for Skype's financial future.

If we take the number of 136 million reported and divide it by 24 hours we get 5.67 million online at any one time. That is very close to the number actually being reported online by the Skype RSS feed (average at any one time). So, the average daily usage for the typical Skype user is about an hour .

Now imagine will happen when those 136 million registered users increase their average daily online time to 2 hours.... or more. This will surely happen as mobile wireless networks become more widespread and as the various Skype features become more and more essential to users' daily tasks.

Its important to remember that a slowdown in Q2 and Q3 were entirely expected due to the highly seasonal nature of Skype. We will see growth materially increase this quarter back to around 40% Q/Q which would imply Q4 Revenue of about $70 million to reach total 2006 revenue of $200 million. I am confident Skype will reach this milestone.

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After two attempts to get skype to work, I have given up. Attempts to contact skype have only ended in frustration. Wish I had checked out their customer service before I tried to subscribe. Since I cannot contact them, I plan to cancel payment with my credit card co. Apparantly, the latest thing in phone tech. don't have phones themselves.

is skype present on this fair. if not, that is maybe why nobody talks about skype as a viable business solution (yet).

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The Skype is also closed in UAE. Officially i think the explanation was that the VOIP has no regulations yet in UAE and therefore it will be closed until the regulations will be sent by government. As most of the people here in UAE are expatrians who do international calls to home then local telecom Etisalat (monopoly) is interested that the regulations will be issued as late as possible.

guys but (bow) work with which skype??? i have 2.5 skype and (bow) doesnt work what i need download??

There are a lot of Skype Recorders around.
The poorly named PowerGrammo integrates with skype and can even be downloaded from the Skype website. (It's a plugin) or direct from
www.powergramo.com
It's the one I use and it's fine. Record quality is OK with ogg compression, just fine as a wav file if you have a big hard disk

Nice article.

I think Gizmo Project is what I see "Skype-Equivalent" which you mentioned as Level-4.

Only problem for me, is yet to find any friends of mine who uses SIP. While some are as advanced as skype, a couple on Vonage, most are stuck with AIM/MSN/Yahoo IM & POTS/Cell phones. Too sad.

I love it when people make comparisons to historical events such as "20 years from now the Internet will suffer the same fate as Network television". Unfortunately if your conclusion is that television now looks like an overpriced inefficient monopoly, you aren't observing the real world. So-called "network" television has been superceded by cable television. I now have literally hundreds of channels I can watch while the "networks" have not expanded and are still offering essentially the same few tired programs as 20 years ago. Already, cable tv is coming under tremendous pressure from IP based technologies (aka the Internet). Surely you have observed the growth of bloggers, iTunes, and now YouTube. It's only the beginning.

NONE of this profusion of choice has come about from regulation. It has ALL come because of the elimination of regulation. Regulation will reduce our choice. Nothing in history teaches a different lesson.

Part with $39.99 for personalvpn from WiTopia, http://www.witopia.net. The setup takes about 10 minutes and I have to say I'm very impressed. Skype now working fine and all "restricted" pages are now available.

Just I want to inform you that Skype work now on jordan

What would be a fair rate in US dollars for a student or part time professional to input data online for a small us company. I am attempting to outsource data entry processing and what websites would I advertise on.

Thank in advance
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My testing of Freeconferencecall.com suggests that MOST of time the VOIP callers DTMF (touch tones) are not properly recognized by their bridge so problems are encountered. Works perfect from PSTN lines (regular Bell phone lines).
I've failed trying to put a conference bridge up with SKYPE (I wanted to use there recording capability for the project).

It takes a very long time to starting Outlook application after installing Skype Toolbar for Outlook on my computer.

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Well, That fax confirm that Skype service are officially blocked in Jordan now.

but it seems Batelco Jordan were the first to block the site and the login server and that might be because they have their own International calls solution so it's very healthy to act quickly

Hi,

I have a sonyericssone P990i phone. When is skype for symbian available?? I can't wait to lay my hands on it...

you forgot to mention :

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Just this week a VOIP operator here in Brazil (Vono - www.vono.net.br) has revealed a beta function via their softphone client that allows phone conversations between their network (Vono) and Skype users. Vono users dial skypeusername#skype and reach the Skype user.

If Skype won't do Naked Skype for developers, maybe somebody else will.

telmex is a powerfull company owned by man eaters in mexico.. these creatures appeared almost a decade ago when their lider salinas de gortari got the presidency, he sold the state companies to his flock of demons, and now, these creatures are just bleeding poor people in mexico, bleeding them to death.Because of this people flee away for their lives, leaving everything behind. when these creatures attack, they destroy smash and devour everything on their path, this is the main cause why people migrate... i mean scape to other countries; some, like me, get lucky and find a good place to live, although not as a citizen yes as a human being. we people need to get together, and smash the heads of these beasts, 'till then, we'll have peace and see mexico flourish, one more time.

Lets face it net neutrality is going bye bye. 20 years from now the Internet will suffer the same fate as Network television. Full ownership of all websites by only a few interests - extreme price barrier to broadcast, PG-13 cencorship... You dont' think Ed Whitacre quietly handed all those phone records over to Homeland Security without being sure he would get something in return?!?! Him buying back AT&T + Bell South is just the beginning. It's like a competition with people like him to see who can sodomize the citizenry and national resources the most profanely.

From Russia with love... Did Russian Hackers overtake in effect Chinese Hackers in the race to reverse engineer the Skype.exe ? This time it's not a hoax or an unfulfilled promise. Here is the QtSkype4.exe. see www.skype-watch.com or link.

Of course the story is not over. It's never over. Only until the fat lady sings...

From Russia with love... Did Russian Hackers overtake in effect Chinese Hackers in the race to reverse engineer the Skype.exe ? This time it's not a hoax or an unfulfilled promise. Here is the QtSkype4.exe. see www.skype-watch.com or link.

Where are the Skype Bots? This puzzled me and I wondered why Skype Dev didn't run a Skype Bot competition. (Like what Microsoft did for MSN).

And after trying to work out how I would run one, I think you've hit it on the head. A Skype Bot needs to run 24-7 so it needs to be on a server somewhere in a datacentre. Which probably means Linux. But definitely means minimal UI.

nakedSkype++

Ditto on Canada. I have been searching for information about Skypein for Canada but nothing, other than vague comments about how they are working on other countries. Why the delay? Voip is not a big deal in Canada so why the mystery?

There is a much better solution alternative to Skype and its called Damaka (www.damaka.com). They advertise that they can do all that Skype can do and even more like H.264 video and desktop sharing strictly peer to peer WITHOUT any servers in the middle and without any SUPERNODES in the middle.

It seems like it can do IM, email, audio calls, audio conference, H.263 and H.264 video, video conference, multiple lines, music on hold, voice mail, file sharing and now DESKTOP SHARING all end to end encrypted using TLS and sRTP and strictly using peer to peer via SIP.

Check it out: www.damaka.com

think like an IT-manager or security person. think about privacy. then think about this

skylook can import and find skype names based on e-mail addresses or names listed in your ms outlook contact list (therefore endless).

imagine that spammers and other worse vermin start to compile list and search for profiles based on names, email-addresses, telefoonnumber, cellphones numbers publically available on the skype cloud.

i find that a serious problem.

You can sign up for the beta by visiting the home page of the Venice Project. But before doing so, I would read the privacy policy. Kazaa was notorious for installing spyware on users' computers and it looks like The Venice Project will be making great efforts to do data collection on users. This is just the boilerplate from the web site on what the software will collect:

When you register to become a user of a TVP website, service or software, TVP collects certain information such as your first and last name, e-mail address, location, and birth date, as well as information about your use of TVP features and contributions of content. link.

I love the idea of doing interesting things with mood messages. They have become very important in the social lives of many young (and not so young) people. No offense intended, but this idea seems like the Internet equivalent of tattooing your forhead with a Nike logo.

How can I use my compaq nx6110's bluetooth with my Nokia N70 to make handfree calls on Skype?

Wouldn't the Telcos in general be against having Skype on their mobile devices, which will eventually lead to VOIP usage. I've heard that using VOIP over the data networks on cellular services is prohibited, which would make sense, because they are trying to stop VOIP not spread it. Is this all true?

Do you have one of the more later clients? If you go to Help and Buy Skype Credit, then that will likely still work.

The same goes for United Arab Emirates. The local telecom (Etisalat) has been blocked all VOIP options in the country. Check out www.gulfnews.com and type in the search box "skype". You will find the reaction of locals about this. I may write to you more when i will get there in the beginning of next week.

But you still have to be connected to your PC via USB, right ? So unfortunate that it is not a stand-alone device.... Leo

This thing is so big i would never ever use it!!!

See you there Jim. Doug Petty, PIKA's VP of Technology is moderating the session on "New voice applications - Mashups" I'll be giving a demo on our Skype/Asterisk mashup. The overall conference should very thought provoking.

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I actually think there is a purpose to these "Skype phones". Initiating communication via SkypeIN/OUT is easy and transparent. The called person just "picks up the phone". Getting my Skype friends to put on their headsets is not easy and it wouldn't work at all if not for the ability to initiate a call as chat. Once the conversation is started, Skype is of course a far richer environment because voice, video, chat, and file exchange are all the same communications channel.

I certainly agree with you that imitating PSTN is a stupid objective but (SkypeIN/OUT) is a reasonable transitional technology. The current generation of "Skype phones" will evolve in the direction of more capable devices.... and today's fully capable devices (computers) will evolve in the direction of compactness, mobility, and portability. Broadband wireless networks are largely responsible for leading us in this direction.

I personally am not going to buy a "Skype phone", but I'm glad that others are. While their transition path will be to get more and more capable handheld devices, my transition path will be to get more and more compact computers with wireless capability.

Interesting comments on damaka. Have you tried the software recently? You can do call outs to a regular phone line, file transfers, IP Radio, RSS Reader and even desktop sharing. I don't know any other software that can do all of that! And it's all direct peer-to-peer which means you don't have to deal with a supernode. I would strongly encourage you to check out the latest features. The company has gone a long way in the past few months! I am a frequent user and has been getting all my friends to use it. No problem at all.

It all depends on what you want. I've been to similiar "hackfests" in my time, and the output is what? A fun time, lots of interesting t-shirt logos and very little ROI. In other words, a great way to give your engineers a mini-break, but arguably little real business.

Can't comment on the ebay DevCon, but for me it's all about getting business done. Personally I hate the stereotype of developers being perpetual college dormers. Many developers out there are very business-savvy.

So the cosmetics (sleeping bags, 24 hour codeathons etc don't bother me. What really matters is 1. Do I get good info when I attend 2. Does it help me make money?

Anything else is side orders...

Irish

anybody thought about making a plugin (remember www.inventeering.com, the video still image plugin) that would show some advertising the people who download that plugin... I would not mind that... anyways. even if there is nothing mentioned in the EULA does not mean there might not be mentioned someting in the future. the whole problem with the current skype version (there is only one right?) is that it is being used for too many purposes. time to split up the development in different skypes. are there enough developers for that purpose ?

Paul, that is one of the points I am trying to make. There is a reason I quoted Ted's comments re WiFi. Stay tuned.

The ads would have to be relevant! I wouldn't want an ad for haemorrhoids appearing next to my name! ;)
It would have to be a '????? recommends Stormhoek, cos he wouldn't know a good wine if it bit him!'

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Your second point about Skype being acceptable over a WiFi connection on your Axim, begs a question. Why is Skype wasting time trying to use the mobile operators network to implement their VoIP? If, indeed they are?
They should just stick to getting it to run on Symbian using WiFi. Don't even try to use the mobile data network - it will be marginalised soon enough anyway.
They may still have trouble with lack of processing power, but latency and bandwidth problems...who needs them!

Hi, Alan.

First off, thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. That's always appreciated, especially since I can be wrong.

I had a nice time at the eBay DevCon. It just fell well below my expectations. This post didn't say I disliked the DevCon, just thought it was so different from the Hack Day.

Maybe it was a cultural divide? Or that the event design felt so much like "relationship management" vs. relationships. Or maybe it was generational, full of geezers who made me feel young (and I'm in my 40's) who hadn't touched code in decades. Or the artificiality of Vegas. Or the dearth of hands-on facilities and activities.

I know the eBay DevCon had many returning attendees. If your business depends on eBay, either as a powerseller or an IT shop, you can't afford to stay away. That's why the owners and managers of eBay-affiliated ISVs and VARS attended. At the same time, the financial barriers to attendance are steep, keeping out people who'd attend if the event was free and the lodging was cheap. There's a great blog of three developers from Canada packing into a van and driving down for Hack Day, for example, who'd never done anything with Yahoo! APIs before. Your event design has barriers to folks like that.

There were no sessions on minimizing eBay fees, although I'm sure they would have been packed. It was just the talk of every table, every powerseller, each developer. These were people already invested in the system, or supporting those who are. So they were focused on incremental optimization vs. creating entirely new kinds of businesses and solutions, more interested in business models than breakthrough technologies or making new technologies.

"VAR" is short for value added reseller, sometimes called a systems integrator. Lots of your devcon attendees fall into this category, blending software services with gear or other services. Check out VARbusiness magazine for an example of a trade publication they might read.

Want to measure the difference between the events? Count the photos posted by attendees to flickr for each event. Or look at the number of sessions showing up on podcast and video sites. Or the Google juice of each event. And look at the audience in photos of the sessions; the HackDay crowds are mostly people with open laptops during the sessions, researching, surfing, blogging, chatting in backchannels.

And Yahoo's developers weren't cordoned off by PR people to prevent frank and open conversations. Yahoo trusts their staff to work without chaperones at these events, a distinct difference in approach. One has a culture of transparency and openness, and the other a culture of communication filtered by legal and marketing and publicity departments.

Looking for analogies, it's an approach to style and engagement that reminds me of the big movie studios vs. independent/underground films; of Clearchannel vs. satellite radio; of the big, rapacious record labels vs. early Napster; attendees vs. participants; of Monkees nostalgia vs. Beck.

Not saying I have it right. It's just my own experience.

I was the Mobile app demo eBay Research Labs person at eBay devcon, and a better summary would be something like: New web based and mobile relevant search alogorithm, preview of highly animated flash based eBay deal finder and shopping network applications. New XML API's to allow developers to build their own variations.

Phil - I was at Hack Day with a bunch of my eBay co-workers -- sorry I didn't see you there, and sorry to hear that you had seem to have had such an awful time at eBay DevCon. Everyone that I talked to at this years eBay DevCon had a great time, and we a large number of repeat attendees. I didn't run into any "VAR managers" at DevCon, whatever those are, and I there were no talks that I remember about "minimizing eBay fees." There were over 40 technical sessions on eBay, PayPal, Skype, and Shopping.com, which were led both by eBay folks and by external developers. We also had an "unconference" day that was filled with user-led sessions. Sorry if none of those did it for you. Also - sorry that you missed the other research labs projects that were on display such as a new relevence-based search prototype, as well as all the innovation from third-parties that was shown to over 10,000 eBay community members on the show floor at eBay Live. Also, I guess you missed out on the musical entertainment and parties throughout the event, such as the pre-party at the House of Blues. Sure - we'd love to have had Beck, and he is welcome to come perform at our next DevCon. I'll ask Chad and Bradley at Yahoo if they can help hook us up.

Phil - we appreciate everyone's constructive feedback, and we were at Hack Day along with everyone else to hand out and see what worked and what didn't, so that we can help to create better and better events for our developers. Hope to see you at next year's DevCon in Boston, June '07.

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Ha, ha - that ebay DevCon event certainly isn't my speed...I mean Davy Jones, really?!

Awesome comparison! The eBay event sounds like torture. I was at the Yahoo Hack Day last night and it was great fun.

Nice contrasts... Yahoo Hack Day, still going on, really seems to be the happening spot right now.

Yahoo's Hackday is much better, because it is all about Networking and fun. It's much more affordable for me too.

Thank you for sharing this story with me !

if this file-sending feature is great why is it so slow ?

i started to use www.pando.com due to the slow speed of skype.

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Skype has a problem.

Skype has a serious problem trying to get into the cellular voip business. Why? Because the cellular internet environment (not to be confused with Wifi) is completely different than the landline internet market. Your home DSL or cable connection is freely available to the owner (pending net neutrality issue aside), but the cellular connection and mobile phones for your cellular data plans are controlled by the carrier and phone makers. Skype cannot simply ride on the back of their network like they do a wifi or DSL line. It will take negotiation and marketing saavy to get the right-of-way to use a cellular operator's network. And Skype will have to cut these kind of deals all over the world to get broad coverage.

Does Skype need to build a new business model? They can't split advertising revenue currently, because they don't have any. My opinion says that operators would favor a Yahoo, Google, AOL, or Microsoft over Skype due to deeper pockets from advertising business models. The carrier has much more to gain and YMAG have much more to offer.

Woe to Skype! Woe woe to EBay!!

businessweek artcle.

Ayas,

When we go back (and we will!) please make sure YOU stay here, we don't want narrow minded bigots like you loose in the big, free world. After all, without your censorship and control you wouldn't be unable to make up your own minds about anything, right? Oooohhh what shall I do Etisalat, what shall I think Etisalat, what can I see Etislalat ??

Phil,
This may be true for voice, however I see no reason why Skype couldn't have delivered a mobile Chat app ages ago. It's based on Jabber anyways. Of course I can get GoogleTalk chat on my mobile etc.

I wish someone could explain the logic for waiting till the "whole" mobile client is complete. It makes no sense to me.

Furthermore, launching a chat only mobile app for Nokia Symbian 60 phones would give them a very useful piece of research and a ready base to provide what many of us want.

And yet, I have had a SIP softphone happily calling through an Asterisk gateway on my Symbian mobile for a while now.

There's something weird about when Skype relays file transfers. My PC is normally in the DMZ of my linksys router so I run the risk of being a supernode[1], but I also get fast transfers. But then I did one a day ago and it was relayed. Really not sure if this was a bug in beta 2.6 or I'd changed something and forgotten about it.

This is one situation where a centralised relay could help. Or where there was something we could do to the firewall to speed up just file tranfers. P2P apps like Bittorrent or Soulseek manage much faster file transfers direct between PCs but you usually have to mess with firewall or router settings to get it.

For a while there I thought supernodes were just handling call setup, switching and NAT busting, but once the connection was established they stepped out of the way. But relayed file transfers suggests they still participate in the conversation.

Given all the FUD about Supernodes it would be good if we could get some definitive information about where they sit and what they do in all situations.

[1]I can tell when my laptop is a supernode and being used for a call because the fan kicks in. ;-)

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MobileVoIP ... it's pretty complicate one.
Even Skype should try new approach in this carrier-centric maeket. In South Korea, MobileVoIP is one step closer to users by imFONE.
For more... check gizmodo article

What I'm looking for is basically the equivalent of E-fax (sending) but via SkypeOut...

Presently we convert documents to PDF files as attachments which we send (via E-mail) to Efax.

What I'd like to find would be a similar thing which we send the PDF files (probably by E-mail but FTP might work too, or for that matter even by interface to the local Skype client) to a SkypeOut gateway at the destination end which would then convert send the PDF file out as a fax.

We generate these batches of faxes for one of our consulting clients... they send maybe three or four hundred such faxes per day which are automatically generated by their invoicing, credits, EFT drafting and price quotations applications.

Part of the goal of course is reducing long distance costs, but it's also to speed up transmissions (using their higher-speed internet bandwidth) so they can burst out more faxes within a shorter period of time.

(And no, this isn't for spamming!) For example, they send several hundred price quotations at the end of the afternoon for the next day's orders, and previously using two fax machines, at a minute a page, takes several hours. Using Efax they can send everything in about 15-25 minutes, and we'd like to now do this via Skype instead to reduce costs.

And it needs to be something that we can submit the outgoing faxes easily in an automated way, ideally by batch files or similar scripting, and where we can get some kind of program-readable status reports back that we can use to manage automatcd retries, management reporting, and fault recovery.

It IS relatively important that we can use PDF files, since that gives us very good control over the page format we're sending... that's how all our outgoing faxes are generated at present.

I'd sure love to find a good Skype-based solution for this... (personally, we have little or no need for Skype-based incoming faxes... we handle those fine with the existing fax lines and machines).

(BTW, in case I don't get back here to check this, you can reach me directly at gep2 at terabites.com, please copy me there on any replies).

Coming from New Zealand I would have to say that i have noticed a totally different trend. Here texting is virtually free (compared to calling) and so while it has stolen a small amount from IM, what really has suffered is mobile calling. Looking at the usage of all of my friends (around the 18-22 age group) all of us would send over 300 SMS per month, (recieving is not charged so i dont know how many that is) with many people exceeding 1000. Few would make more than a single call, if that, and then only for really long (eg >5min) conversations, everything shorter is just txted. Basically SMS has become a universal mobile IM service, and has become a requirement for almost all communication. A person without a cell phone really is an island in this modern world

Check out the free new tool of SoliCall (www.solicall.com), it will do the trick.

(bow) is one more :)

It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it... (Faith, No More)

...or perhaps I'm just a cynic

You are spot on with your review and comments. However, I differ on the issue of adding GSM or EDGE networks. While the device may have connectivity limits by only supporting WiFi, once you add GSM or EDGE, you now have a smartphone. You need a SIM card. You need to pay for this service. You will get killed on data charges. Who wants to buy an extra SIM card and pay for another account - you may as well use a converged device like a smartphone.

For the price, I think it can do better in content creation - like having a camera and music mixer. It should have POP3 and/or IMAP email. It could have better support for IM.

Firstly, thanks for all your kind words.
Secondly, we did NOT block VoIP sites or ports in the U.A.E. but were asked to block them on behalf of the TRA (Telecom. Regulatory Auth.)www.tra.ae.

In the future; please ask those in the know or do your homework before bad mouthing others.

For VoIP site &/or service block/unblock email the tra: info@tra.ae or call them up on the following:
T: 02 621 2222 F: 02 621 2227
T: 04 362 6666 F: 04 362 6677

Good Luck!

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Hi, I dont know the above one is a good news or bad news...below I type some info about QQ wat ever I knew.
QQ exist only in China! I am using it for the past 2 and half yrs. Until now no proper english version. I am not Chinese, i really dont know how to type or read Chinese!
Comparing skype,yahoo and MSN, QQ have lot of simple options which is most useful in daily chats! Good video, but still the voice not clear as skype. File tranfers were very very faster!...etc. I am confused if skype merge with QQ.

I like Miranda IM very much, too. You should really have a look at it.

But of course Skype ist better :D

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I think it possible to make a fully anonymous call using skype.
1) Buy a phone card (prepaid) ones.
2) Register for skype using hotmail address
3) Go to a cyber cafe
4) Call up the 1800 number in the call card.
5) Call up the number you want to dial as you would do it from the phone card

Can anybody advise me, to use skype in UAE? The skype was so clear.

i want to make free local calls from my pc to landline phone only in india and within 70 kms range is there any way?some one plz help me
what shoul i do ?i have skype msgr in my pc

thanks to all in advance

It's a shame that some universities (such as The University of Bath) in the UK explicitly ban using Skype on the network...

A skype app is already out for symbian! You can also use it for VOIP over Google Talk.

Stuart, great to have you back, your insight has been sorely missed.
As cooli said, once you put IM on a mobile device, pre-installed and integrated with the phonebook features, then SMS would cease to be at an advantage.
The key point is that it is used with a close circle of friends, because those are the people who we have 'conversations' with. In that close circle, presence indeed does have limited value. Certainly less than mobility.
Right now, it is still a trade-off and mobile wins because it is of primary importance. The interface and functionality (160 chars) matter less than the ability to access it anywhere.
The future has to be IM on mobile devices, though, as SMS was not even designed as a retail messaging system!
Handset/device manufacturers will be the ones who decide who will win (Text vs IM), and I think the new devices on the market say a lot about where to place the bets! aaytch has the same view...

The points rised here are completelly true. However there is one thing that do not apply in some countries which have very strong telecom monopolies. I live in Poland where the local telecom feels really safe and does almost nothing to lower the prices. The result is that investing around 80 euro in the ATA box gives profit already after 5 months of use! I'm actually fond of ATA-type of solutions where one can still use his ordinary handset, like DECT in my case, still normally dial numbers and receive calls and, the best of all, enjoy much lower prices.
The prices for voip services are falling faster then the telecom prices becouse there are many competitors here and the change of the operator takes only 5 minutes, wheras with the telecom it takes at least one month (this might be typically polish invention thou :-))

To summarise: the more stubborn the telecom is, the better the penetration of voip services. Just look at the size of polish skype community!
Greetings,
Christopher

Phil, you could use Skype's Groups/Small Business function to manage this for all of them. Groups enables you to set this up. Separtely, Call Forwarding in the US is currently free for US residents. Not sure how long that will last.

My Son has a SkypeIn account at college and uses the call forwarding function. I obviously am using one in India. Thus they call all call me for free from their mobile phones.

To FARES.. that one u were talking about that can be "replaced by 100,000" and that one u are asking to leave the country.. will rule u one day .. don't think that few dirts (like u)that don't even make 7%of total population of the country (UAE locals that is) will keep holding the country on its feets...so u better stop your greed and let the rest of 90% of the country (immigrants and foreigners)live in peace.. and give them at least their basic rights and freedom.. screw u and etisalat.

Ganesh, There is no voip service till date which offers free cals to indian land lines or mobiles. The only free call I have ever made to India was using globe7 and that too was a special offer sort of thing cant remember how many mins they gave free.
Indian telcom ministry is a long way from letting voip flow freely.

Down with the govt of India :(

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aaytch,

The US market is nowhere near as open as it could or even should be.
The problem lies in the fact, that a lot of people are spread out over large portions of land, which makes for a lot of 'last miles' per district.
The only way to make money off setting up all those 'termination points' is if you're the only company in the village and you -and you alone- can set the price.
It has worked that way in the US for a long time and is only slowly starting to change.

If you've ever visited the 'south end' of the US, you'd be amazed at how much you have to choose from:
A: ADSL from BellSouth (where available)
B: Cable from Mediacom (where available)
C: Dial-up (usually available, but dependant on phone line quality).

For ADSL to work, you need a phone line so clean, that your modem connects at 56K each time without fail.
A lot of cities and villages in the US don't share that privilege.

As the price of copper keep rising and hardware becomes ever cheaper, comanies are starting to realize, that it's actually cheaper -in the long run- to lay down fiber.
Especially out to places where you'll need to reach a lot of 'last miles'.

In the Netherlands, a aDSL revolution has come to another solution:
The phone lines can be 'bought' from the national phone system for $10 a month.
A new ISP can then route that phone line to its own equipment and provide you with Internet Access at a fair price.

These days, we don't even need to have a phone subscription anymore.

Sweden has gone the Fiber way and it seems to work rather well for them.
Amsterdam puts a fiber connection in all new homes by default.
(brand-new 'small' fiber rigs are easy to set up and maintain)

This may sound advanced, but Europe is still quite a few years behind on Japan, where the modern world's innovators live.
(They just released UDHTV, 4x the resolution of 'regular' HDTV (HDTV is actually 40 years old)) )

I'm not a skype user myself (yet!), but here's a story on a blog I keep about a new Welsh skype group

Because Skype is closed and proprietary, and the EULA stipulates you handing over the keys to your network for use.

A big factor here is the Supernode Myth that lots of Skype users behind NAT or a firewall will share bandwidth and cause the network administrator problems. Why is this myth so prevalent and so deep seated?

Having a hard time trying to get the ADS-870 to work. Anyone has a new driver?

Hi,
This is Jack Richards from ladenstream.I was just reading the above posts and comments and come to know that after all our effort to unblock the voip in the blocked areas and after all successful tests which our system has passed, still there are some fellows who think that our system is not working or it is a fake one, I read that somebody was in doubt if the www.ladenstream.com is a dangerous spy site.
I want to ask this fellow don't you think making a spy code and injecting it to a voip based site is a stupid thought?!!!!
seems that you are not familiar with voip technology or even I may say you are not familiar with internet at all. if we wanted to do so we would have written such code and put it in an adult site, to get better result.
just let me ask you one question. can you tell me who are the target visitors of a VOIP provider site? If you don't know the answer I will tell you. we have 2 kinds of visitors.fisrt are other voip providers who are mostly IT professionals and are aware of the technology and the second one are the normal people who at least know what is internet telephony and what is voip , otherwise they you couldn't search and find a voip site.
so now don't you thonk it would be a stupid thought to insert a spy code in a voip site!!!!!!! to spy who and what??????
we are very happy to say that we have implemented a new way for our services and it is working perfectly in all areas , specially in blocked areas. our users are increasing day by day. we really respect the people who helped us by paying attention to our services and to our effort and had supported us in order to gain this success.
Jack Richards
support department
www.ladenstream.com

i am the most happy man on earth the day i used skpe to talk it was like a drea m i am very greatfull for taht opportunity thank u

Texting is cannibalizing other IM services more than Skype's IM service. There are several reasons. First, you can IM someone in Skype even when they are offline. Presence with Skype is a feature but it is not required. Inbound IM's (from another Skyper) very much like SMS, and much more like SMS than other IM services. Second, you actually can SMS someone with Skype (outbound), so SMS becomes an adjunct to Skype's IM/Voice/Video/Fileshare services.

In general, I feel that SMS will lose out to the more advanced services patterned after IM. Devices like the new Sony Mylo really are "in the palm of your hand" just like a cellphone, so that will make IM just as convenient as SMS assuming there is WIFI available. Also, as cellular/mobile networks add data services with EV-DO, HSDPA, WIMAX etc., IM will have the same mobility as SMS.

Have the Racketeering and Patenting lawsuits against Skype been settled ? It would be interesting to know what is the status of this.

what if skype would bring value to those countries by making deals with the telecoms ?

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Cooli, Yep, we are on the same page. I use AgileMessenger on my phone (a Nokia N80 - with wifi). If my whole phone and all my contacts... everyone was really on it and I could make a chat call too... then I'd be a lot closer to what I want.

I know very few people that have data connections. I won't buy them for my kids etc. Pricing and control issues is basically holding back something mobile users want.

I've used Yahoo's Hutch mobile solution in India. It works very effectively over SMS. However it costs more than SMS. Thus the only real reason to use it... is the desire for an alias and thus to hide your real number. Jangl is creating something similar for voice.

I think I'll work on another post. We can take this track in a few more directions. Ultimately the key is the cost of data plans. As you know a flat rate dataplan and agile provides a great solution.

We also need to look at how one can merge all your IM accounts with your mobile address book for one seamless experience.

It is clear, if Skype remains closed and proprietary they will be left in the dust. Simple.

Hi, good points but I think we miss the key point:
- SMS is IMHO a poor implementation of mobile IM (no blame, its usage was not even intended ;).
- Why SMS is still king on mobile is because:
- it is working out of the box and always on with your phone number/subscription
- ubiquous reach (thanks now to proper sms interconnections between operators)

Now you take the implementation of IM in the PC world and its features (real-time chat, smileys, ...) and you put it on par with sms:
- pre-installed (and pre-launched) in your phone, works out of box, integrated in phone UI and functions (e.g. phonebook)
- all IM islands (MSN, Yahoo, ...) can talk to each other or you have multi-IM-account support a la Agile messenger
- always-on flat-rate data plan i.e. illimited texting.

And then it is quite clear that SMS does not stand a chance anymore.

I use a lot mobile IM thanks to the very good Agile messenger (if only all my friends had it also on their phones). I can say that it is killer application for me and that services/features like picture messaging (MMS), PTT/POC are only used by me as part of the IM user interface of Agile messenger.

So all in all, we just need to wait a bit more to see a real SMS 2.0 or decent mobile IM for everybody.

Cheers - cooli.

PS: great to have you back Stuart, I was deeply missing your hindsight and thorough articles.

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Audio Vampire is a full-fledged audio editor. It can record any sound played on a PC, including VoIP calls. Skype, MSN messenger and Windows Live Messenger are supported. The sound quality of VoIP call recording is superior to other programs. It does not use the Skype API. The maximum recording length for VoIP calls is 3 hours and 20 minutes. Other audio sources can be recorded until disk space runs out. Also, Audio Vampire has an extensive range of sound editing/effect capabilities. It can even rip CDs. Check it out.

Audio Vampire is a shareware program, made by TechnoCraft.
">Download the trial version.

Good post and observations but i think in Europe it could be different. SMS has always been a big market in here and still is. Although i notice that here in the Netherlands MSN is very popular. But you are right with mobiles. Around a age of 14 most kids have a mobile in here i believe and that mobile only has SMS. Although pricing is still a little bit high it is easy for most kids. Another advantage is that lots of kids use a computer managed by a parent to send IM messages, on a mobile they don´t have that problem.

It would be good to have a device with flatfee data, GPRS or UMTS, and a chat client or even Skype. T Mobile has a flatfee EUR 10 a month in here for data and that is cheap. But most phones don´t support IM yet.

GPRS or even UMTS with Skype sucks mostly. HSDPA will be better but starts around EUR 50 a month.

Flatfee HSDPA for around EUR 10 per month and a device like the Mylo would be something for kids!

Ramaki, Great comments and additions. Thank you. I agree with your points one and two although I'd note that the less chatty texting format is being used like IM. IM exchanges tend to be longer, and I'd agree that emoticons, audibles etc. add something extra to it.

Like your summary, I think the time is ripe for something new. There is learning to be had from both camps for the next generation product.

I would add few points here ,apart from what has been detailed in the article.

1.IM chat is one continous experience .It is required where you have a conversation.Say ,Im in US and my fiancee in INDIA ,IM chat plays the cupid !SMS-Better Luck Next Time :)

2.Secondly IM has these themes ,audibles etc to make the experience quite different.But the question is -How many need it ? SMS is for u know ,short messages ,short conversations..but you may do multiple 'short' conversations .

3.SMS VS IM is like a battle between Always ON Vs PLanned Conversation.Like, my mobile is always ON,but my laptop where my yahoo is running is'nt always ON.

4.It would be intresting to note that both IM and SMS offer you the facility of hiding behind the bits -meaning your feelings ,emotions ,fears can be disguised in the text (IM or SMS).WOuld it not be better if you chat with your BOSS rather than talk with him ?

Summing it up,i would say SMS has created new demands and they would eat up some specified percentage of IM market ,considering the fact that people want to connect as quick as possible.WHen you meet somebody new,u don't ask their yahoo-id-Do You ?
IM will still remain for few selected usages.

Take note Skype developers. Read the message. Skype doesn't really care about you after you feed them.

"Skype can ensure they maintain the voice quality for which Skype has become reknown

hmmm, did GIPS ever figure into that equation?

Hi, Great Post!
Just wanted to say that now you can send text messages to your Skype client... however, you can't receive them in the form of text! You will actually hear them being read to you...

Aydin.

Needs a cure doesn't it! It's coming!

I have the m2500 and bought it to use with skype on

1. home pc
2. hp rx3715 pda

with my pc the bluetooth will connect however the 'connection' noise which you get when you connect to a device with the m2500 just keeps sounding.

With my pda the two wont even pair :(

Thought provoking. Could also be useful in computer speech recognition; I put some ideas in the VOIPSA blog.

Congratulations on a great web site. I am a new computer user and finding you was like coming home. Continued success.

I am in the U.S. and having problems using Freeconferenceall via Skype. THe touchtone dial pad also does not work properly. I hope this gets to be fixed ASAP!

Hi Phil, I agree with many of your sentiments and will be surprised if some of these or similar suggestions are not adopted. The mood in the developer support team is good and I'm looking forward to more good things ahead. However, as one that was fortunate to be at Tallinn we must remember, these events are more than just information sharing.

Skype talk about building and enhancing conversations and that they do very well. As a company that develops business solutions on their platform I'm excited but what they have to say.

Events such as Tallinn are much more than conversations, they are also about relationships. Relationships between Wispa and Skype, between Wispa and the other partners present, between Wispa and the beta testers but more importantly between me and the people present.

I learnt a lot at the developer sessions. I meet a lot of good people, both working for Skype and importantly those working in their ecosystem. I built relationships that help build the conversations of the future and this is something you don't get from remote, mass conversations.

I believe Tallinn is a good use of my time and resources and I hope to meet more good people next time - I'll be there and I hope you will too.

Regards
Graeme
PS If offered a drink which is described as like drinking jellyfish, in a bar described as dating back to the 60's under Soviet rule then respond with caution but drink it anyway, it's all part of the relationship ;-)

Hi Jim,
I was wondering what your opion is around : "How can GIPS achieve some finacial leverage on the Skype deal and are they doing this ? Or to put it more generally : How can you achieve recurrent business in a sector that is focussed on free service."
See also my comment above. In order to have a technological future you need to have a financial stable present, I think. Financial gain, strategic partnerships and technological excellence goes hand in hand. I "feel" that this is ok @ GIPS but why are they so vague around the financial part ?
Txs
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Well great site but also consider those calling from subcontinent to Gulf. Anyhow thanks for sharing.

www.ladenstream.com isn't that a dangerous spy site???

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Very interesting point of view! Only related to Skype!
That is what Skype Journal should focus on. The last months a lot of other topics are entered in Skype Journal that are almost not related to Skype.
Back to basics please.

Good blog Steve! :-)

Check the new free beta - SoliCall - it works great with all softphones. In addition it reduces background noise thus making the call more relaxed.

Try to type:
/me stinks or /me cool
Nice:)

Jim:

I am eagerly waiting to read additional details on the bloggers' session, especially about "how legacy carrier can make money in a Web 2.0 net neutrality world."

Thanks

Hi guys
As I know that all of us who are working in UAE, are having hard times to get 1 dhs more income, I have put this article to help those fellows who were using the cheap internet calls and it's got blocked these days.

I know that many of us have spent large amount of money calling home so we were using some internet cheap calls so that we pay less, but it s got blocked now, I started searching for a new solution cause I didn't want to pay almost half of my salary for my telephone bills and at last I found a new solution which still works, so any body who needs to call any place in Pakistan can use this website www.ladenstream.com
I have used it for 3,4 times , and it is working fine.

thanks and regards
sumit

As to your statement that "Everyone said cable companies would knock down the phone companies"....

Let's firstly stipulate that phone companies were monopolistic precisely because they were in fact regulated as "phone utilities". Let's secondly stipulate that the monopoly ended because of competition and not because of some benevolent regulator. Let's thirdly stipulate that the phone company (AT&T) was knocked down long before the cable companies came along and that they lost the battle because they were overcharging monopolistically for long-distance.... not "the last mile".

Again, pricing and levels of service were fully regulated, which is precisely why we never saw any innovation in the telephone business until deregulation started to take hold. It's just amazing to me how short everyone's memory is.

I'm always amused when you folks say rhetorically "Will you accept filtered access the next time your ISP offers you an upgrade? " I have to ask: where's the historical evidence for this? It seems to me just hypothetical fear-mongering. And when you talk about monopolies and duopolies in "the last mile", I can't help wondering why you're missing all the other pipes. The hardwires now coming into my home include a cable company, a phone company, and an electric company (whose pipe could in theory carry data). In addition, I could subscribe to satellite services. In the near future I expect to have access to multiple cellular data services. To that we'll add, next year probably, a regional WIFI network, and the year after that a WIMAX network (or maybe several competing WIMAX networks), and that doesn't count certain alternative wireless schemes in unregulated spectrum such as XG Technology that may or may not achieve commercial success . Meanwhile, all the competitors continue to improve their services. With almost every passing day, they offer more bandwidth, accessibility, and reliability. Never once have they offered an "upgrade" where a particular kind of data packet would be stopped or slowed down. So I ask you, what's the point of regulation? Can any politician keep up with this march of technology, or they capable of "serving the public" only as effectively as their ridiculous efforts to deregulate the phone companies... of which you seem so proud.

Everyone tells me this is impossible in the USA. But here goes again, anyway.

First ask yourself the question. How will the *next* last mile inrastructure get built? In the last 150 years we've rolled out electricity, water, sewage, telephones, cable. So how do we get Fibre, wireless, internet over power lines, rolled out?

Second, ask yourself what should be done about regulating the natural monopoly of infrastructure providers? It's not a free market and can't be because there are a limited number of pipes laid to each home. So it has to be regulated. Which means what we have now with the Telcos/Cablecos is a government mandated and controlled duopoly. We can leave this in place and control what they do, which is the net neutrality approach. Or we can force them to open up and sell wholesale bandwidth and access to switching rooms (Local Loop Unbundling: LLU). This creates a free market layer on top of the basic service duopoly. It creates a free market of 3rd party ISPs that compete with each other to provide the best internet access at the best price. Which then completely removes the Net Neutrality debate because abuse of Net Neutrality could not survive.

My American friends tell me that a) it's socialist and b) It couldn't happen because the Duopoly has too much power and is too good at lobbying. How ironic that layering a free market on top of a government mandated duopoly is seen as against the American way!

This approach is working in other western markets; notably the UK. It would do well for the Net Neutrality debaters to at least investigate how the rest of the world copes with the same basic problem.

Aaytch, I may hang out in Berkeley and go to meetings with Trotsky on the wall, but those folks think I'm a Republican conservate. I really like you, Aaytch, so it's harsh knowing you're just a reactionary puppet of the corporate vested interests, and have so little faith in the power of democratic governments, of, by and for their people, to do good in the world.

As for your perception that the incumbents will inevitably be toppled, that's blind and unwarranted faith on your part. Everyone said cable companies would knock down the phone companies, or that lots of local competitors would enter the market to drive rates down, or that everyone would switch to mobiles, and that the vonages kick ass. Well, the phone companies are lining up to distribute video, they are buying mobile carriers and setting up mvnos, they are partnering with internet companies like yahoo and setting up their own voip services. so the big telcos have proven resistant to nearly every attempt to dethrone, and nearly every attempt to curb their power.

So, yeah, the trends are continuing unabated, including those where power keeps consolidating. And I ask again, if not for regulatory power and authority, what will you do right now to defend the Internet from these predators? Will you accept filtered access the next time your ISP offers you an upgrade? Or do you have such an abundance of alternatives at work and home that you are already free of AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and their cousins?

Let's face it, Phil..... you're a socialist. By the time you figure out how to regulate the feared "concentrated powers", they will have been overturned by any one of a dozen new technologies and a hundred real and potential implementers..... Oh, and while you and your politicians who presume to serve my interests are figuring it all out, the trends already in place will continue unabated.... lower cost, higher speed, and extension into every nook and cranny of our lives.

I bought a us robotics turbo card. Doesn't work!
Does anybody know the customer service # for these people?

Only yesturday Skype Blocked in JORDAN ,, i called my ISP and asked about this and they sent me the fax they got from Telecommunications Regulatory Commission to block skype Date : Sep. 13 , if there is any way to use my skype please help :'(

Now I use PrettyMay to record Skype,It's very easy to use.
It's Great!

Hi John,
Ryan here from the Skype for Mac team. I'm confused how you cannot find the chat capability? Chat works fine for 1.5 Gold, we use it every day here at Skype and I have plenty of reports of users who also have used it fine, maybe you should contact me directly on how to get it working on your system?

Cheers,
Ryan.

This is a great debate. I'll throw in my $0.02. I work from a virtual office. I have a cell phone and Vonage, for my office number. I added Skype when my trips went international. At first, it was just to call my girls, back at home. Now, I find myself skyping out from my office to my international contacts, when arranging the trips.

I go back and forth on canceling Vonage and going full-time Skype for the office. I do have a Bluetooth Skype phone, but the drivers only work on Windows and I'm transitioning to Linux. This WIFI phone might finally push me over the edge, as I could carry it with me on my trips and make my office, even more virtual. I also already have portable mini Wifi Router, for use in the training room. The cordless phones, requiring a base station seem too cumbersome for a road warrior, like me. Besides I have a POTS cordless hooked to my Vonage adapter...I could carry all that with me, now...but I don't.

I'll still wait a little while for some more reviews and hopefully a price reduction.

Thx,
Jim

Funny how the gold 1.5 for Mac doesn't have chat capability any longer. Believe me, I've tried all the tricks I know to solve it. Wish I had put aside the beta but luckily I still have a copy of 1.4

Skype for symbian is now available through www.fring.com
only for 2nd edition but still work great.

Great article...I'm looking forward for the next phase about social connectivity in VR instead of in the "Real World". Older people prefer physical contact, whereas younger people are more used to virtual contact...

i noticed that this was near the top of google results for skype dtmf issues.

i had the version listed above (2.0.x.xxx) and i experienced those same dial problems for about 6 months. i downloaded skype 2.5 today -- skype doesn't autodownload or find this new update, you have to go to skype.com to get it -- and the problem went away.

if you still have problems, use the dialpad on this site, while you are in a skype call, while holding your microphone up to your speakers:

tone generator

Why oh why oh why have Skype not targeted Canada for a _single_ area code? This makes no sense to me. I would bet the farm that even a single area code available for Skype-In Canada would receive a blitz of responses!

SKYPE!...

HELLO?
...SKYPE? ARE YOU THERE SKYPE?
.....HELLO!!!

After using Voipbuster the latest AdAware finds 5 Trojans on my WinXp. Anybody know if they are real or false positives?

Using SIP sever, you can do HUGE SIP calls.
The PC Clients only need to install Skypetosip SW.
Every agents in the Call Center can easily use skype to connect to SIP server and make any SIP call.
To accept SIP calls, Asterisk+SIP server can handle all call-management.
I think the architecture is much better and easier.

I wish it were that simple. Our IT dept doesn't like the P2P resource sharing of the SkyPE EULA and architecture, and I can't say I blame them -- until bandwidth is free they do need to worry about taking on extra bandwidth loads (just like Usenet news used to drown UUCP connections 20 years ago).

I was quite happy with SkyPE but given their policy I'll be looking at the alternatives, and migrating friends elsewhere over to these systems.

free on the web is something we are used to, but aren't the govt's figuring out a way to tax this stuff?

My blogging company asked me to get a SKYPE account, but now there is a need for wireless headphone with mic or you find yourself tied to the PC.

Martin,

I'm curious.

When you call "Skype Test Call", how many relays do you get?

When your corporate client in California calles echo123, how many relays do they get?

Just curious.

Steve

@transtech: This software solution is not so reliable as it says. Have you tried it ? I can't see any call center integration possible through this soft... as only one call at a time can be forwarded.
Maybe with virtualization, but will be money consuming

Also try PrettyMay which offers more features such as call recording,answering machine,share music in a conversation

aslo PrettyMay offers call recording function for Skype,easy to use.

I think giving away products (pens, t-shirts, caps, mugs, etc.) with your company's logo on it is a fantastic way to market your brand. Everyone loves freebies and will definitely use the products, provided they are of decent quality. This will give your brand even more exposure for the lifetime of the product. That's a lot of bang for your marketing buck!

Ted, there's a balance, a symbiosis, between press and promoters. Nuance, finesse, and courtesy is more of what I'm asking. Professionalism would be lovely too.

You are right - it is Pulvermedia's fault. The solution -- don't pre-register for the show. By pre-registering you are giving your contact info to Pulver so that they can sell it to the flacks. Solution -- just show up at the convention. Will they really turn you away? I don't think so.

Etisalat have scored an almighty own goal by blocking Skype. When Skype is back up and running, which it will be one way or another, everyone will know about the benefits of using it thanks to all this publicity! Genius! Well done Etisalat. Thank you for bringing this wonderful service to our attention!

The last point in Google's FAQ is interesting. In the UK, a non-roaming phone normally doesn't incurr any charges on the phone's owner when the receive a call. Have Google managed to change this somehow to save them the costs of phoning a mobile, or is this FAQ entry just a remnant of the US FAQ?

thank you.

A related question. Why does every convention and conference have to re-invent their own web site? It's time for an Open Source package (perhaps Drupal with custom extensions) that provides all the features we want to see as participants and speakers.

We use to do consulting work for BT. They had this nickname in IT that the net inside the BT firewall was the Green Zone (good, safe) and everything outside was the Red Zone (bad, dangerous). When this was first explained to us, all three of us in the meeting mis heard and had to have it explained. We all thought the outside interweb was the green zone (go) and inside BT was Red (Stop, Don't go there, Don't do that).

They may still have this rule but at that time, it was illegal (and a disciplinary offence) to connect a BT owned laptop to a Non-BT network. Needless to say everyone (right up to board level) ignored the rule.

I agree with you 110% that the IT policys in big corporates suck big time. It is pitty that they cannot figure out that they could put wifi routers in their meeting rooms which are not connected with their LAN in order partners, clients and consultants could get their things done better. I am happy that my company (not Big Company) uses that cheap and helpful solution.

Hey Marina Skype User...

Y dont yu share the simple trick with others?

I installed the Skype Toolbar for Outlook, and like other users here, had to uninstall it immediately since it made Outlook *unbelievably* ssslowwww. I have a 3 GHz Pentium 4 with 1Gb of RAM and a fast SATA hard drive; 336 Outlook contacts.

that's all i get

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to ashwin, yeah blocking Skype is bad. However, if u don;t lke that or u r in UAE or ur friends or relatives there, then GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE. We have 100,000 people that can replace u.

I think Skype-to-SIP is much attractive.

http://www.nch.com.au/skypetosip/index.html
+
SIP server
or
Asterisk/SIP server

These combination would be easier.

Should I pay anything?
I do not think so.

Looking forward to see this technology arriving in South-East-Asia via the right distribution and added value resellers.

gr. www.skype-watch.com

Come on, this is so last year. Where have you been?

"Real 3G network" - what is a not real one?

Shall I guess you've been using CDMA EV-DO?

And what is so great in Europe with 3G? It is a flop! At least in the States you can travel with a datacard long distance without crossing "border" then getting MASS roaming charges like 10 euros/meg.

And as the other poster points out, Asia is leading.

I am in Bur Dubai and I am using Mobiboo successfully with their Mobiboo Dashboard ssoftware. It occassionaly reboots itself by generally excellent and I can call back to Australia for a couple of pence - and IM the kidz as well. I recommend it 5 stars *****

What nonsense! Those freaking illetrate UAE nationals have nothin better to do or what!?? But they are like this, I was born in Dubai, so it doesn't totally surprise me.

I think no other country acept for these handful of Mid-east countries would have VOIP banned. But u know what, people will find a way, they always do.

I am now looking for an easier alternative for people who are not that savvy w/computers. I hope I get one soon. Please inform me if anyone can specify an alternative to having a private network, changing IP etc.

I try to email their 'sales@pikatechnologies.com' for more details and I get:

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This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

removedtoprotectprivacy@ottawa.kanatek.ca
retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------
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They really know communications!!! While awesome at Asterisk stuff, email seems to escape them...

Can people who use Skype or SkypeIn see to which
number your call is forwarded ?

Very good skype recorder - PrettyMay.
It is really easy to use and reliable.

http://www.prettymay.net

I bought that phone and it is a piece of not working crap. Sendinf that back :) At least they will pay for shipping :) 2 hours wasted ;[

Allowing applications like IOTUM's is a smart move for AIM Phoneline. It's likely that at some point someone will write a killer app, but it's likely that the killer app is going to be free, and it's highly unlikely it's IOTUM's. AIM users are notorious for only wanting free things, and IOTUM is a very niche service at best. It'll be a huge surprise if they hit 500 customers by the end of '07, and I'd hate to be the VC counting on AOL to drive a ton of customers. Much more interesting would be if they (and others) could figure out ad supported ways to deliver their service and make it free.

Obviously You can trace a skype call back to where it's sent with a subpoena... That being said... If you use skype out on a pda/smartphone, setup an acount from an "Unsecured Network" they would be tracking it back to the bogus place you sent it from...
and for anyone that says good luck finding a "unsecured network" I took the bus the other day and found 9 in about 20 minutes...
Enough Said...

Could somebody tell me if this skype version can also be used for the sony erricson p990i

Thanks for your answer

Rene

I refuse to believe the "news" about China becoming "the largest" Internet anything in the near future. It's simply not true. I don't see any evidence for it, and I'm surprised actually that you would republish such unverified hype.

Hi. How do I turn off the internal microphone on my ibook g4? I don't want any microphone at all but i cant seem to do that.

Simple. Just type Skype in your "notes" of e61

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Това е от мен, EvilDemon, кефете се означава owned!
This is from me, EvilDemon, have fun. It means owned!

The 'babes of VoIP? Didn't learn much at BlogHer, did you?

Congratulations on downplaying this whole 'gender metathread' thing and focusing on what's really important: yet another Silicon Valley conference. Lord knows, there's so few.

Eric and Lore sounds more like the perfect advertising couple Skype invented to promote its product. Still, it reveals what you can do with skype. Though I wouldn't trust to judge how my spouse is painting the wall only seeing it on the louzy quality image a video conference would provide :-)

I'm both a Skype fan and a cordless phone user.
I'm disabled and confined to a wheelchair.
A cordless phone has obvious advantages for me.
I take it with me around the house and and outside within radio range where I can instantly make and receive calls.
For my Skype activities I must sit in front of my PC at present.
I welcome the forthcoming combination of Skype and cordless and look forward to the new experience.

Hi Jim, txs for this excellent article. I saw an extract of this post on a discussion board on Yahoo! and I'm glad I could read the whole text.
I completely agree with your vision. I see the added value of Skype more in the relationship with end-users and the strategic position in the market( wimax, handheld). For the technological added value you have to look at the partnerships of Skype, meaning you have to look under the skin of Skype, 1 level deeper. GIPS is a good (maybe the best) example in this. It is the secret sauce of Skype.
Having said this I'm a bit surprised that this knowlegde is only known to technical people. If you read financial forums or business blogs everybody is talking about the hugh opportunity of Click to call or Skype wireless. The interest of financial people seems to stop at the surface. Nobody is talking about the real leverage that can be obtained by investing f.ex. in GIPS.
Or do I see it to simple now ? Maybe there is only a limited financial gain for GIPS in Skype alike deals. This could explain the lack of interest in GIPS from the business community.
My question to you is. How can GIPS achieve some finacial leverage on the Skype deal and are they doing this ? How can you achieve recurrent business in a sector that is focussed on free service.
txs
I

Hy add another cool link i have just stored my mobile contacts at
ZYB it looks kinda cool

Show can you introduce me how to do this (link or examaple). I have a lot of customer ... I'll appreciate much if I'm able integrating 'Click-to-Call deal' of Skype into my web/win application.
Best regard.

it's only a phone. stop the hype. a phone is something with 9 numbers and a zero. most of the time there is a * and a #.

for most people that is the only thing it will ever be, wether you can carry it or wether it is a box attached to a wire in the wall.

and about the free stuff, well nobody wants to sell something that is free... ask how much money you made with free stuff to the sales department. right : 0.

don't count on them and the world to understand the more complicated in-direct revenue-streams, if the are use to pay for service and products.

don't expect people to associate quality with free.

expect them to think : what's the catch.

expect them to be suspicious. at all levels.

Take the time to fill out this and pass it on to your friends, a petition on SKYPE in the UAE

http://www.petitiononline.com/uaevoip/

Hey Phill, speak Mónica Spear Mootz for me, PLEASE !

Ok e-mail the she, too !
Gracias :)

Euroland? 3G is all over Asia dude :-)

The recent acquisition of Userplane by AOL is a harbinger of things to come. We'll see how Userplane's presence on Myspace and 100,000 other sites expands the AOL community and vice versa. That's much more interesting to watch than adoption of free phone numbers or yet another social networking site IMHO.

Netscape as Digg clone is a nice try, we'll see how open AOL gets once they start losing people because nobody is going to come to AOL from other ecosystems it's like letting air out of a bag.

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talk about the google add-sense revenue and the market-share value of Skypejournal instead of only virtual value of blog-clicks and stuff like that.

it's good to be on the top of the charts, but how many side-business can you develop and how many people will in effect start buying this and that ...

how can you "live" from a free blog if the readers are not paying for the magazines (they could be collectibles if you ask me... ) or the advertising is only addsense of google.

why not put paid extra adds... and create some local flavours of the skype journal.

there is only 5 guys or something blogging on your platform. there should have been 500 by now.

Eric and Lore sound like such a cute information superhighway couple.

try (flag:lt) or (flag:us) just change ''lt'' to the country short name. Like lithuania - lt

Keep up the great work on your blog. Best wishes WaltDe

Hi,

I'm about to get a macbook and I'm wondering if/how I'll be able to hook it up to my Nokia bluetooth earpiece using its in-built bluetooth capability. What I've read so far is a good indication that it should all come together.


What I'd like to know is if the accept/end call buttons will work, or will I have a permanently open audio connection to the earpiece. I've seen third party software that will enable the buttons, etc, but I'd rather not fork out for it just yet...



Thanks,
Ross

Hi!Do you Know some USB Phones thant work with VoipBuster? I need models that someone had tested.
Thankx.Pedro

oh baloney, mahoney, how I love a good debate. Do continue with this.

Skype works fine for me, i live in the Marina and I use Skype all day long.. its a simple trick on the computer that will solve all the problems.. Good Luck

please send me the bill to pay the skipe extension

To Bill and Phil,

I see my post on your "independency" has provoked some kind of a storm in Skype Journal! Wasn't my intention. I hope it stays a storm in a glass of water!

To Phil,
It WAS NOT the visit of Jaanus to Oakland that triggered my suspicion!!!!!! I don't therefore understand why you didn't explain the "wrong?" statement of Jim Courtney, the one that made me think that you had an agreement!

Concerning the information of how to become a Skype Journal author ... too late for me. You could have proposed this months ago.

But as said before, you may copy-paste my posts of my blog in Skype Journal with reference to my blog.

Well, Bill, since we do have a corrections policy, would you be more specific about my errors? And what the correct information should be?

Sometimes Phil you say things that are just simply stupidly wrong.

Please check your facts before you blog. The world is already fillled with bullshit. We need less; not more.

Regards, Bill

why ? why they are cutting and blocking every thing? why we should all live in acave and only see the light that they allow to view?
we ask them why they invent all these technologies ? just to write it in a books to be eat by dust over the years...... we need the technology, i need to talk to my family,to see them .... we are in the 21 th century...we are civilized!!!! is it becouse there is " SEX " things which is forbiddin !!! i ask them what about the millions of people that make sex daily in UAE even in the streets......

come on ....Bullshit
mike

I hope one day U.A.E. frees itself from the bondage it is in at the moment. Its such a shame,it is trying to develop itself from a third world,even though it has ran out of oil.Business relies only on expats an tourism. Robbing people from basic rights not only certifies them incompetent,greedy but also gives people the sad feeling of not being able to call their loved ones because they cannot afford the prices Etisalat the robber company charges. I hope other countries recognises Dubai an its backward policies, and people keep cursing U.A.E. because of this small basic right to speak to their loved ones.One day Dubai will pay with all their greed.

You state "Wall Street frowns on the eBay/Skype side of the partnership according to the New York Times." I read the article you linked ... it makes absolutely NO mention of the market's (i.e. Wall Street's) view of the Google/eBay/Skype collaboration.

The share prices are "factually" listed at the end of the article (without comment) ... as is customary. As for "doing the math," Google shares rose 2.0% and eBay shares rose 1.9%. The difference is statistically insignificant.

There may be a story here, but this article, and yesterday's share movement for Google and eBay, isn't it.

I think you should ask ivan, ivandunord@free.fr
he gives free settings and proxys to have skype working. It's rather simple...

Hi

We are back to stone age, Skype is blocked again from
today.

Look what Google is talking about... interop and open standards with Skype:

http://googletalk.blogspot.com/

Re Google-eBay etxt advertising, eBay really should sell the ability to advertise to people running auctions.

"Click to call is US only" Why? Dammit!

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Here is all the flag i found:

(flag:AF) Afghanistan

(flag:AL) Albania, People's Socialist Republic of

(flag:DZ) Algeria, People's Democratic Republic of

(flag:AS) American Samoa

(flag:AD) Andorra, Principality of

(flag:AO) Angola, Republic of

(flag:AI) Anguilla

(flag:AQ) Antarctica (the territory South of 60 deg S)

(flag:AG) Antigua and Barbuda

(flag:AR) Argentina, Argentine Republic

(flag:AM) Armenia

(flag:AW) Aruba

(flag:AU) Australia, Commonwealth of

(flag:AT) Austria, Republic of

(flag:AZ) Azerbaijan, Republic of

(flag:BS) Bahamas, Commonwealth of the

(flag:BH) Bahrain, Kingdom of

(flag:BD) Bangladesh, People's Republic of

(flag:BB) Barbados

(flag:BY) Belarus

(flag:BE) Belgium, Kingdom of

(flag:BZ) Belize

(flag:BJ) Benin (was Dahomey), People's Republic of

(flag:BM) Bermuda

(flag:BT) Bhutan, Kingdom of

(flag:BO) Bolivia, Republic of

(flag:BA) Bosnia and Herzegovina

(flag:BW) Botswana, Republic of

(flag:BR) Brazil, Federative Republic of

(flag:IO) British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago)

(flag:VG) British Virgin Islands

(flag:BN) Brunei Darussalam

(flag:BG) Bulgaria, People's Republic of

(flag:BF) Burkina Faso (was Upper Volta)

(flag:BI) Burundi, Republic of

(flag:KH) Cambodia, Kingdom of (was Khmer Republic/Kampuchea, Democratic)

(flag:CM) Cameroon, United Republic of

(flag:CA) Canada

(flag:CV) Cape Verde, Republic of

(flag:KY) Cayman Islands

(flag:CF) Central African Republic

(flag:TD) Chad, Republic of

(flag:CL) Chile, Republic of

(flag:CN) China, People's Republic of

(flag:CX) Christmas Island

(flag:CC) Cocos (Keeling) Islands

(flag:CO) Colombia, Republic of

(flag:KM) Comoros, Union of the

(flag:CD) Congo, Democratic Republic of (was Zaire)

(flag:CG) Congo, People's Republic of

(flag:CK) Cook Islands

(flag:CR) Costa Rica, Republic of

(flag:CI) Cote D'Ivoire, Ivory Coast, Republic of the

(flag:CU) Cuba, Republic of

(flag:CY) Cyprus, Republic of

(flag:CZ) Czech Republic

(flag:DK) Denmark, Kingdom of

(flag:DJ) Djibouti, Republic of (was French Afars and Issas)

(flag:DM) Dominica, Commonwealth of

(flag:DO) Dominican Republic

(flag:EC) Ecuador, Republic of

(flag:EG) Egypt, Arab Republic of

(flag:SV) El Salvador, Republic of

(flag:GQ) Equatorial Guinea, Republic of

(flag:ER) Eritrea

(flag:EE) Estonia

(flag:ET) Ethiopia

(flag:FO) Faeroe Islands

(flag:FK) Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

(flag:FJ) Fiji, Republic of the Fiji Islands

(flag:FI) Finland, Republic of

(flag:FR) France, French Republic

(flag:GF) French Guiana

(flag:PF) French Polynesia

(flag:TF) French Southern Territories

(flag:GA) Gabon, Gabonese Republic

(flag:GM) Gambia, Republic of the

(flag:GE) Georgia

(flag:DE) Germany

(flag:GH) Ghana, Republic of

(flag:GI) Gibraltar

(flag:GR) Greece, Hellenic Republic

(flag:GL) Greenland

(flag:GD) Grenada

(flag:GP) Guadaloupe

(flag:GU) Guam

(flag:GT) Guatemala, Republic of

(flag:GN) Guinea, Revolutionary People's Rep'c of

(flag:GW) Guinea-Bissau, Republic of (was Portuguese Guinea)

(flag:GY) Guyana, Republic of

(flag:HT) Haiti, Republic of

(flag:HM) Heard and McDonald Islands

(flag:VA) Holy See (Vatican City State)

(flag:HN) Honduras, Republic of

(flag:HK) Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of China

(flag:HR) Hrvatska (Croatia)

(flag:HU) Hungary, Hungarian People's Republic

(flag:IS) Iceland, Republic of

(flag:IN) India, Republic of

(flag:ID) Indonesia, Republic of

(flag:IR) Iran, Islamic Republic of

(flag:IQ) Iraq, Republic of

(flag:IE) Ireland

(flag:IL) Israel, State of

(flag:IT) Italy, Italian Republic

(flag:JM) Jamaica

(flag:JP) apan

(flag:JO) Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of

(flag:KZ) Kazakhstan, Republic of

(flag:KE) Kenya, Republic of

(flag:KI) Kiribati, Republic of (was Gilbert Islands)

(flag:KP) Korea, Democratic People's Republic of

(flag:KR) Korea, Republic of

(flag:KW) uwait, State of

(flag:KG) Kyrgyz Republic

(flag:LA) Lao People's Democratic Republic

(flag:LV) Latvia

(flag:LB) Lebanon, Lebanese Republic

(flag:LS) Lesotho, Kingdom of

(flag:LR) Liberia, Republic of

(flag:LY) Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

(flag:LI) Liechtenstein, Principality of

(flag:LT) Lithuania

(flag:LU) Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of

(flag:MO) Macao, Special Administrative Region of China

(flag:MK) Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of

(flag:MG) Madagascar, Republic of

(flag:MW) Malawi, Republic of

(flag:MY) Malaysia

(flag:MV) Maldives, Republic of

(flag:ML) Mali, Republic of

(flag:MT) Malta, Republic of

(flag:MH) Marshall Islands

(flag:MQ) Martinique

(flag:MR) Mauritania, Islamic Republic of

(flag:MU) Mauritius

(flag:YT) Mayotte

(flag:MX) Mexico, United Mexican States

(flag:FM) Micronesia, Federated States of

(flag:MD) Moldova, Republic of

(flag:MC) Monaco, Principality of

(flag:MN) Mongolia, Mongolian People's Republic

(flag:MS) Montserrat

(flag:MA) Morocco, Kingdom of

(flag:MZ) Mozambique, People's Republic of

(flag:MM) Myanmar (was Burma)

(flag:NA) Namibia

(flag:NR) Nauru, Republic of

(flag:NP) Nepal, Kingdom of

(flag:AN) Netherlands Antilles

(flag:NL) Netherlands, Kingdom of the

(flag:NC) New Caledonia

(flag:NZ) New Zealand

(flag:NI) Nicaragua, Republic of

(flag:NE) Niger, Republic of the

(flag:NG) Nigeria, Federal Republic of

(flag:NU) Niue, Republic of

(flag:NF) Norfolk Island

(flag:MP) Northern Mariana Islands

(flag:NO) Norway, Kingdom of

(flag:OM) Oman, Sultanate of (was Muscat and Oman)

(flag:PK) Pakistan, Islamic Republic of

(flag:PW) Palau

(flag:PS) Palestinian Territory, Occupied

(flag:PA) Panama, Republic of

(flag:PG) Papua New Guinea

(flag:PY) Paraguay, Republic of

(flag:PE) Peru, Republic of

(flag:PH) Philippines, Republic of the

(flag:PN) Pitcairn Island

(flag:PL) Poland, Polish People's Republic

(flag:PT) Portugal, Portuguese Republic

(flag:PR) Puerto Rico

(flag:QA) Qatar, State of

(flag:RE) Reunion

(flag:RO) Romania, Socialist Republic of

(flag:RU) Russian Federation

(flag:RW) Rwanda, Rwandese Republic

(flag:SH) St. Helena

(flag:KN) St. Kitts and Nevis

(flag:LC) St. Lucia

(flag:PM) St. Pierre and Miquelon

(flag:VC) St. Vincent and the Grenadines

(flag:WS) Samoa, Independent State of (was Western Samoa)

(flag:SM) San Marino, Republic of

(flag:ST) Sao Tome and Principe, Democratic Republic of

(flag:SA) Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of

(flag:SN) Senegal, Republic of

(flag:CS) Serbia and Montenegro

(flag:SC) Seychelles, Republic of

(flag:SL) Sierra Leone, Republic of

(flag:SG) Singapore, Republic of

(flag:SK) Slovakia (Slovak Republic)

(flag:SI) Slovenia

(flag:SB) Solomon Islands (was British Solomon Islands)

(flag:SO) Somalia, Somali Republic

(flag:ZA) South Africa, Republic of

(flag:GS) South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

(flag:ES) Spain, Spanish State

(flag:LK) Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of (was Ceylon)

(flag:SD) Sudan, Democratic Republic of the

(flag:SR) Suriname, Republic of

(flag:SZ) Swaziland, Kingdom of

(flag:SE) Sweden, Kingdom of

(flag:CH) Switzerland, Swiss Confederation

(flag:SY) Syrian Arab Republic

(flag:TW) Taiwan, Province of China

(flag:TJ) Tajikistan

(flag:TZ) Tanzania, United Republic of

(flag:TH) Thailand, Kingdom of

(flag:TL) Timor-Leste, Democratic Republic of

(flag:TG) Togo, Togolese Republic

(flag:TK) Tokelau (Tokelau Islands)

(flag:TO) Tonga, Kingdom of

(flag:TT) Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of

(flag:TN) Tunisia, Republic of

(flag:TR) Turkey, Republic of

(flag:TM) Turkmenistan

(flag:TC) Turks and Caicos Islands

(flag:TV) Tuvalu (was part of Gilbert & Ellice Islands)

(flag:VI) US Virgin Islands

(flag:UG) Uganda, Republic of

(flag:UA) Ukraine

(flag:AE) United Arab Emirates (was Trucial States)

(flag:GB) United Kingdom of Great Britain & N. Ireland

(flag:UM) United States Minor Outlying Islands

(flag:US) United States of America

(flag:UY) Uruguay, Eastern Republic of

(flag:UZ) Uzbekistan

(flag:VU) Vanuatu (was New Hebrides)

(flag:VE) Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of

(flag:VN) Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of (was Democratic Republic of & Republic of)

(flag:WF) Wallis and Futuna Islands

(flag:EH) Western Sahara (was Spanish Sahara)

(flag:YE) Yemen

(flag:ZM) Zambia, Republic of

(flag:ZW) Zimbabwe (was Southern Rhodesia)



for "ExcluSive": Zaire is no more, viva el Democratic Republic of Congo...



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