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Ars Technica has a much better and detailed explanation for what’s going on between Level 3 and Comcast. In short, ISPs move data over the internet in two ways: directly to their destination (termination) and through other networks before they get to their destination (transit). US oligopolist cable company Comcast does both. [...] Verizon Wireless preloads the Skype mobile app available for the Pantech Crux (a music phone without a keyboard), LG Octane (a messaging phone), and Samsung Zeal, all sub-$100 consumer handsets. This is routine. I’m just passing along the data point that VZW continues to extend Skype’s US brand. Skype users call billions of minutes yearly. That customer behavior is stolen from phone companies. Skype accounts for more than 12% of long distance and international minutes after seven years. Those phone companies can’t fight back using their PSTN phone system: 40% of Skype calls have video, and your local phone company can’t offer [...] I spent the Thanksgiving holiday with family in the frozen Northwest United States. I’ve been surrounded by people I love who are late adopters of information technology. None use Macs. Two use BlackBerries and SMS. One couple shares one basic mobile phone, for emergencies only. They all Skype, but only by appointment and sometimes with [...] When oDesk customers tell contractors to install surveillance software on their computer, how does a contractor say no? When a vWork client wrongly ruins a designer’s reputation, who speaks for the worker? When a Hindi language coach for a US educator isn’t paid a Mumbai living wage, where do seek redress? Workers have been struggling [...] Skype saw 25 million users connected to the network on Monday. This is a new high watermark in the history of Skype’s dialtone. Contrast this with Tencent‘s QQ: "118.7 million peak simultaneous online IM user accounts" as of 30 Sep 2010, more than 400% of Skype’s dialtone. Let’s look at Skype’s dialtone over time. [...] This 2008 presentation was pretty great, so I’m sharing it. It focuses on four themes: The future of work is: transparent (your boss will know everything you do and how well you do it), flat (remote work and physically decentralized organizations), competitive (global labor market, pay for performance, easy/cheap access to higher education), and [...] I’m heading into a meeting this afternoon to talk about the DataPortability Project with a web site policy expert. Data portability policy as disclosure is a nice and needed start. Looking ahead, what might the data portability movement produce over the next year or two? Not in any order… A Portability Gallery. Examples of [...]
Verizon Wireless is Skype’s prime partner in the United States, preinstalling Skype on Android and Blackberry handsets. Skype’s deal with VZW means your Skype voice calling minutes and voice call data aren’t charged against your monthly plan. That makes sense since Skype mobile doesn’t have any call data (calls flow over Verizon’s [...] I’ve been using Julian Bond’s free Twype Windows app for years to pipe my latest tweet into my Skype mood. Update once, see my thoughts everywhere. But the more I use FourSquare, Gowalla and Meetup mobile apps and play around with Facebook Places and Google Latitude, check-in services seem closer in spirit to [...] Skype is used at work maybe 30% of the time. How are we spending those bazillions of hours in calls? I dare say a huuuge percentage are meetings. And meetings suck. They hurt. They waste our time and drive us crazy. So Skype for Work should help with this. We need more than [...] Apple’s announcing something ITunes-related tomorrow. I’m betting iTunes will bundle Apple’s FaceTime for Mac and Windows, just like QuickTime. A video calling network to rival Skype by year end. Stuart Henshall’s idea, my timing. analysis | collabonation | competition | confabistan | graphmasters | partners | platformers | Skype | skypelandia | Strategy | w2s Hi, John! Hi, Tim! You know that lost continent that never made it onto your map of the Battle for the Internet Economy? Found it! It’s the continent of realtime communication. I’m naming it Skypelandia. I’ve been exploring and here’s what I found. Skypeland has a kingdom in the heart of realtime communication. [...] Take a look at Tim Panton’s tale of how Digium brought developers into its plans for a scalable Asterisk. Early and ongoing inclusion. Taking their priorities seriously. Announcing to developers before the press. Tim contrasts this with Skype’s rough treatment of Nimbuzz and Fring. Dan York points out a key phrase: "Look after all of [...] Just a quick thought about social ties. Usually we think along the dimension of strong ties (people we are close to) vs. weak ties. For example, Skype is mostly for strong tie relationships and Twitter is mostly for weaker tie relationships. That’s why Skype and Facebook don’t belong together. You can model two other dimensions [...] |
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