one point four beta
forwarding, smileys, bugs fixed
the great cucumber

Skype Version 1.4.0.74 for Linux, June 14, 2007
now with animated emoticons

telco lobbyists
abhor "subsidy treatment"
for anyone else

 MoveOn and others support Skype while the telecommunications industry lines up against Skype's Wireless Carterfone petition and Frontline Wireless's 700MHz wireless commons petition, being considered by the US Federal Communications Commission. 

no social lock-in
plus enterprise misfitness
ken camp unloads skype

Ken Camp, VoIP blogger and security expert says Skype is no longer relevant for him and strips Skype from his computers.

capture the phone box
defend your territory
call and play Boxr

At Yahoo! Hack Day London, Mike Jewell and friends whipped up Boxr, "a bit like Domination, but with phone boxes." Seize the phone booth by calling a SkypeIn number and giving your code. Get a point for each minute it's yours, until someone else claims it.

in poverty: now
in middle class: the future
in wealth: history

Susan Mernit summarizes lessons about diverse class attitudes and perceptions.

skype the disrupter 
prompts telco evolution
consumer driven

Niklas Zennström, Skype co-founder and CEO, opines for BBC Online.

Indian telcos
ask government to tame VoIP
xenophobia?

Internet Service Providers' Association of India seeks Chinese-style regulation of Google, Skype, Yahoo, Vonage, MSN; an end to "indulgence".

Gartner staff use Skype
despite IT banning it
IT's adapting

"I went to a seminar about [consumerization of IT] a few weeks back. The Gartner guy was complaining that their IT department didn't let them use Skype at work"
- on a ZGeek bulletin board.

mclaughlin and friends
public policy wonkage
blogging for googlers

Google's Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs unveils his team's blog.