Slides to walk you through why the DataPortability Project formalized the portability policy and created PortabilityPolicy.org, launching today. It also steps you through the scope of a portability policy and gives pointers on where to start with your own. This is a 1.0 release, but it’s still a beta. You can ask more detailed [...]
When you Skype your guest appearance on Oprah Winfrey‘s talk show, Harpo Productions overnights a "Skype Kit." It’s a briefcase with goodies. Here’s what’s inside:
Foam padding to protect the contents. A laptop with Skype pre-installed, clickable from the Windows desktop, set to start on Windows launch, and to automatically log [...]
Cameron Chapman explains How To Permanently Delete Your Account on Popular Websites. Perhaps your site’s Portability Policy should answer these questions:
How?
If you don’t allow account deletion, why? What steps do you take to prevent someone else from deleting my account? What steps do you take to prevent me from deleting my account when [...]
Skype is offering SkypeKit, a UI-free engine so you can build Skype into desktop and embedded systems. It bundles the libraries, protocols, encryption, codecs, and media you’d find underneath the Skype for Windows user experience. From the newly revamped Skype developer zone:
SkypeKit, you can build Skype conversations right into your own products. Skype [...]
Skype CEO Josh Silverman shared these with the audience at #CommunicAsia2010.
12% of the world’s international calling minutes are on Skype. That’s billions of dollars of hard currency going through Skype instead of telephone companies. Skype gives away seven to eight minutes for each minute someone buys.
34% of Skype-to-Skype calls involve video. About one [...]
Skype’s rivals and partners have been busy
Rumor: Michael Arrington suspects minority Skype owner Andreessen Horowitz is buying Foursquare. I love 4sq. Robert Scoble has 8 suggestions for building more 4sq consumer/platform value as Yelp copies 4sq features. Meanwhile, I can’t wait for an enterprise version, the better to check in with colleagues, clients, [...]
Skype CEO Josh Silverman will address the CommunicAsia Expo in Singapore this week on “The Future of Communications.” The abstract:
The speed of innovation is clearly accelerating. As we talk ‘cloud’ computing and mobile operators dig deep to find ways to increase ARPU and satellite communications makes its presence felt, it is important to [...]
With a few minutes to go before Steve Jobs takes the stage at 10AM Pacific, here are a few completely unfounded rumors.
Skype for iPad design actually inspires me to buy an iPad. iChat for iPhone 4 gives Skype a run for its money. iPhone 4 supports Bluetooth for stereo headset and mic [...]
I spoke at the first Dryburgh Emerging Communications Conference (eComm) of 2010 about the application of Augmented Reality to face-to-face conversation. Video will come online later this year. These are my notes from that six-minute presentation.
I. The reversal
Interpersonal interaction started in the real world. The software community started by modeling [...]
|
6 years, 11 months, and 17 days since Skype Journal launched as a stand-alone blog.
|
|