from the Monday inbox
Congrats to Lorne and Audra on their engagement! They Skyped the good news.
Sunday leftovers:
- Mootones: the next big business. (Cowbell Carillon! Moooon River. 99 bottles of milk on the wall.)
- Emoooticons. With sound. thanks, Martin!
- Skype and spy agencies. What if? As Spiderman's Uncle Ben said: With great power comes great responsibility.
- Apple, Google join forces for 'ultimate phone'.
- Google Writer autocompletes blog posts. With an API, could be hugely popular with the IM crowd.
- Google buys iotum for $520m. Moshe Maeir.
- Jajah buys Vonage by Pat Phelan. At what point did Vonage employee stock options go underwater?
- JAJAH Announces Quantum Calling. If you can do quantum tunneling, firewalls should be easy.
Strange But True
Skype trousers
. R$34.90, look comfortable. Not a joke.
Skype armored personnel carrier. Looks dangerous. Not a joke.
Urban Dictionary's surprising definitions and examples for skype and skyping. Red hair! Drugs!
Joost's "What's On" listings. Lots of mainstream programming now, but some are blocked in major markets. Can't watch SciFi's Alliance Atlantis channel in the United States and Canada. Can watch national Geographic only in the United States and Canada. DRM for Joost's publishers.
BenQ P51 PDA Phone launched in Singapore and Turkey. Windows Mobile, WLAN, 2.83" touch-screen display, GPS launched. "You can use VoIP services like Skype."
How to integrate Skype into Netsuite. Their trick: using their content management to add a callto: tag to the html around phone numbers. They should look at the more flexible skype: tag. documentation.
Skype Home Automation. DIY project: $100-200, 3-6 hours, intermediate difficulty. "Set up your own remote home automation system - read the temperature of your house, find out what song is playing on your home system and control the volume, all through instant message commands!" Hat tip to John S. Richards.
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Comments
Was reading the item on Netsuite integration, actually, your comment on flexible skype tag is incorrect. Netsuite is a business application and using the callto: feature allows for the triggering of additional events on making a call, like opening hte customers window etc. the Skype tags also create problems within real business applications because of it's rendering, makes the screen messy and at best becomes a 3 step process if skype selects the wrong country. Basically in order to truely get integrated calling with triggering of business specific logic (this is a business application) and ensure that the UI of the application remains visually intacted, the "flexible" approach you mention is actually less flexible.
Posted by: tom bowes | April 15, 2007 04:45 AM