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Phil Wolff’s 67 Reckless Predictions for 2010

In 2010…

A hot stranger will IM something inappropriate to you. Skype‘s SilverLakeification will be complete, with a very short leash on strategy and operations at first. Skype will serve 125 billion minutes of calls. Second Life will serve 20 billion minutes of calls. Oprah’s television show will end as scheduled in 2011; lots [...]

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2009: The Year even Clooney lost out to Video Communications.

Guest post by Larry Lisser, the man behind the Telephony2Market blog, instigator of the first Startup Camp Telephony Edition (21 January 2010, Miami), and an Emerging Communications Conference alum. He’s the go-to consultant for helping emerging communications startups position, package and get to market growth.

Recently, I made the obligatory trip to George [...]

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Gifts for the Skype crowd

Gear: The Better to Hear and See All Year Long

Cute 3-D Webcam from Minoru. For the friend who wants even more than Skype’s High Quality and considers 3D glasses the height of fashion. Cheerful, stereoscopic, and works wonderfully with Skype. Minoru videos on YouTube (and wear your 3D specs). Review. Amazon. $89/£50/€80.

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UK broadband miles behind its counterparts

Guest post by Shahul Hameed, broadband analyst at VAC Media. Shahul reports on UK broadband provider performance, technologies, and markets for VAC’s Broadband Suppliers site.

Will instant downloads ever happen here? Can we play online and watch videos without interruption? We have been expecting these changes with our UK broadband services a long time. [...]

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Free Speech Activists Use Skype Data Channel To Bypass Government Censorship

Skype Journal is blocked by China’s government. Millions work around censorship and monitoring with networking tools like GTunnel. The GTunnel proxy on your PC connects to GTunnel servers. The client connects directly, through the TOR network, or through the Skype network. Connecting through Skype assures your packets are encrypted from beginning to end. This [...]

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Collaboration Lego Style

Creating a shared vision, talking through it until it becomes a plan they both understand, then dividing up work between them, troubleshooting together and adjusting the plan, until it’s done. Collaboration builds relationships, not just houses.

tags: lego, collaboration, family, commercial, house

Call me at +1-510-316-9773, Skype me, [...]

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More M&A: Should Skype buy ICQ from AOL?

What would Skype pay to add 42 million active users in 2010? The $300 million AOL seems to be asking for ICQ may be steep. According to AOL, 1.1 billion messages are sent and received in the five hours per day the average 13-29 year old ICQ user is connected. ICQ is bigger than Skype [...]

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Download: Skype for Symbian S60 3rd Edition Beta

Skype and Nokia announced at the February 2009 GSM World Congress that Nokia would pre-install Skype on its S60 smart phones by 2009q3. It won’t happen this year but the limited release of Skype for Symbian shows progress.

This is a real client, not a Skype Lite thin client. It works over 3G and [...]

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Download: Skype for Windows 4.2.0.141 Beta

Download the Beta now (full install). A few new features and improvements, 35 bug fixes.

Skype Access. (Beta). Boingo brought over from the Mac version. "Pay by the minute for WiFi internet connection in public hotspots: Automatically detects accessible Wifi hotspots; Connect manually: Tools > Skype Access… Connect to the web and pay per [...]

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Niklas Zennström bores at Le Web

Niklas Zennström doesn’t speak often to large crowds. When he does, he isn’t insightful or novel or passionate. His talk at Le Web was no exception. He could have shared the personal story of clawing his way back to ownership of Skype. The fury and anger of being kicked out of Skype without the [...]

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Frontiers of Real Time Collaboration

When I think of my community, where I belong professionally, I find my peeps highly concentrated in two places: The Emerging Communications Conferences and last week’s Supernova Conference, #sn09. Collaboration and realtime communication was the topic during a panel discussion on day three. Dr. Weinberger brought the conversation through qualitative changes due to speed, brevity, [...]

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Holiday Skype calls unite families

Telephones bring families together at holidays. We make room at the dining table for a laptop, a Skype window between two homes.

Thanks to Barry Silver for the beautiful photo with the Moses family: Shankar, Manakshi, Sita Chan, and Umba. cc-by. You can see Barry’s reflection in the screen and his picture in [...]

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Tencent QQ 2009q3: 1B accounts, .4B active, 75MM online

Ahead of Skype worldwide is Tencent (HK:0700), a diversified Chinese online empire with the QQ instant messaging service at its core. Building on free IM, QQ makes money with "Online Media, Wireless Internet Value-Added Services, Interactive Entertainment Service, Internet Value-added Service, E-commerce, and Online Advertising Service." Tencent had another record quarter.

QQ now has [...]

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In-Skype advertising

A few more ads for the English language North American market within the Skype for Windows 4 client. Some are tips, like this new one for The Phone Booth Experiment.

 

Turn on Skype-provided tips, help messages, promotions and public service announcements [...]

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Chris Pirillo extols traveling with the IPEVO S0-20 Wi-Fi Skype Phone

Chris says you save on roaming and keep connected with Wi-Fi when cell coverage is spotty. The IPEVO S0-20 WiFi Phone for Skype on Amazon.

AmperorDirect has a detailed unboxing video.

This is IPEVO‘s best selling Skype phone in 2009. Be sure to upgrade the firmware for the latest version of [...]

6 years, 11 months, and 17 days since Skype Journal launched as a stand-alone blog.

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