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Skype promised Skype-to-Skype calls will be free forever. Forever comes September 2010 for Skype for iPhone users. Skype is defining mobile apps as a new class of service requiring a separate “mobile subscription.” From the “Details” page: Skype on 3G/Edge What does the “free Skype trial” mean? You can now make and receive Skype-to-Skype calls [...]
A short interview with Adam Kalsey (@akalsey) introducing Voxeo‘s Tropo API. Tropo makes programming for telephony easier and cheaper to build for small business and independent developers. Shot on the demo floor in Moscone West at Google I/O. Also there: Kaazing (whose definition of realtime doesn’t include voice or video), Meebo [...] @DanYork pointed me to Twitter’s banning of advertising networks as it launches its own. Platforming policy isn’t obvious or easy but it’s clear this feels wrong. The moral offense is one of platform neutrality, as in net neutrality. It would be fine for Twitter to launch its own ad service so long as others could [...] Skype’s David Gurlé, VP & GM Skype for Business, told Bloomberg News he expects the number of registered Skype accounts to be one billion by 2015. That’s a safe guess, years’ away so he won’t be held to that number. 80 to 95 million new accounts per year should get Skype there. That’s between [...] Hubert Nguyen’s detailed review of Google‘s Nexus One mobile phone includes the following passage: Can we get a complete version of Skype? Skype Lite: Skype is half-baked on Android and it’s too bad, because you could really do so much with a real version… At the moment, it’s OK for text chatting, but the voice [...] Skype’s Jonathan Christensen blogged Google’s move to open up VP8 benefits everyone. Skype uses On2‘s VPx video compression and codecs, the little software engine that lets your video look so good with so few bits. Then Google bought On2 and Skype became sensitive to external dependencies. Lawsuits from your founders will do that. Codec [...] From a Skype.com blog post: "About 34% of Skype calls are now video calls, and this rises to around 50% at peak times." This is a huge change in consumer behavior. No surprise Skype will charge for group video calling. [...] Sometimes you need an interruption. Very good news. Very bad news. Very important news. It’s the "very" that’s tough. Sifting through everything to find what’s meaningful to you right now is a monumental task. Relevance engines like those at facebook and xobni and Google Buzz consider the source, of course. Is this person [...] Wishlist from our Skype for Windows 5 beta testers (none from me)… Optional local time indicator near speaker faces and names. We’re all over the world so local times adds a useful context to calls. Let user choose to send a bigger picture at higher quality, overriding Skype’s choices. Make multiparty video programmable [...]
Some kinds of things you want sealed tight, no way to get inside and see how things work. Software as a whole isn’t like that. The practice of software development depends on learning from the shared code of others. So it’s very useful for systems to expose parts of themselves to third-party [...] After testing we have a theory. The Skype clients in a group video call coordinate who sends what to whom. We saw two configurations emerge. First, a basic "naive" arrangement, shown on the left. Each of us sent a stream directly to the other two parties and received their streams in [...] Dan York: Why I’m NOT excited about Skype 5.0 with group video calls. No Mac version. No Mac participation. "Great… wake me up when you get around to having a real cross-platform strategy, Skype." Tom Keating: Skype Group Video Arrives! "I just don’t see consumers paying for group video. Enterprises – sure – but [...] Here are screenshots and notes from a test call with Nicholas and David. That’s me at the bottom of the screen. I changed the size of my video preview and the bottom menu bar shrank and moved on top. Clicking on the blue/white IM button divides the window into a [...] "Disk full" After a Skype call. 60GB free on C. Just odd. |
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