AOL mass firings. How will they affect AIM?

when skype went down, people wrote me hoping i wasn't personally affected by the outage. huge milestone for skype: they've become a utility. -- Jack Dorsey via twitter

Skype wouldn't work for Guy Kawasaki when he tried to dial-in to speak to a class. (Guy's advising Jajah.)

Samsung created a new product category: VoIP displays. Microsoft's smartphone OS built into monitors. Showing Skype for Windows Mobile to demo a blend of computing, connectivity, video, and voice. Could this sneak Skype into the enterprise?

This faux ad for Skype is by gugacurado for a worth1000 vintage ads contest.

Via twitter...

The main reason for the relative calm was probably that, even for heavy users, Skype is a complement to their existing telecoms facilities rather than a replacement for old-style telephone equipment. So internet telephony is icing on the cake, rather than the cake itself. But if present trends continue, this situation will be reversed within a decade, in which case a Skype-type perfect storm would be a major catastrophe. - John Naughton [emphasis added]

New Zealand worries that a SkypeIn agent buys up too many phone numbers. We might have more on this soon.