Refreshing new face for Skype Video add-on
Exclusive to Skype Journal. “Festoon”, not vSkype”, says Itizk Cohen, the new CEO of Santa Cruz Networks. “We have a new product name and a new CEO”, Itzik grinned.
“We are putting fun into video conferencing. We are creating eye candy for our video conferencing application Just like Skype adds expressive media content with its ring tones and buttons”.
Product Manager, Sam Baron walked me through Festoon’s new “Eye Candy”. “When you play with eye candy, Bill, make the Festoon window big."
So I did that...
So I did that with eye candy "Inversion"
If you are part of the pre-baby boom crowd you’ll remember Rowan & Marten’s Laugh-In which played from 1968 to 73. If you are part of today’s generation you all ready know about Rooster Teeth Productions of Red Vs Blue. The video that Marketing Director Max Montgomery put together reminds me of both.
Soon we will be creating great content in Festoon and delivering it to 100's of millions of Skype users.
Exciting? You bet!
Comments
Two other things have changed in addition to the change in name and CEO...
1. ad banners in their GUI.
2. horrible install/upgrade/automatic update processes.
They are in the Beta process, I know... my complaint is that this is their second beta cycle (vSkype was their first) and things are not looking good.
Posted by: V Moranta | October 17, 2005 09:37 PM
I enjoy reading your blog. It is very informative. Thanks.
Posted by: Geoff | October 18, 2005 09:37 AM