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[blackbirdpie url="https://twitter.com/#!/Skype/status/53231840756109312"] I didn’t notice when Skype’s login servers and SkypeOut services went offline but several people Skyped and tweeted it at the time. Andy Abramson can’t believe Skype’s servers don’t have the redundancy enterprise customers expect. I’m sure all hands showed up. And yet I’m unable to see an outage [...] Lukas Mathis says the new Skype for Mac is too complicated for casual users and not flexible enough for advanced users. His head is blogging what his heart knows: revulsion and alienation over the experience. Skype’s Mac forum has been full of kvetching, frustration and despair. Alexia Tsotsis’ TechCrunch thread concurs, after Alexia threw [...]
The last and first quarters of the year show seasonal growth spurts in the number of people signed in to Skype. Just marking when the number of concurrent users crosses a new high-water mark, like it did at 30 million users yesterday, you can see the growth slow as Spring comes to the [...] Hudson Barton invites you to join the Skype for Mac chat (Skype required) on behalf of his Aaytch software development firm. “We decided to concentrate on support for Mac Skype. The new channel, which is a Skype group chat, will be completely about Skype for Mac, and mostly about the new version 5.x.” This is [...] The rumor mill: We should expect voice control technologies in iOS 5. More generally, should I be able to control Skype through speech? “Skype, call Rango.” “Skype, answer the call.” “Skype, call Paul at noon.” “Skype, text to George Let’s talk this afternoon.” “Skype, who is near me?” Hands-free is not just safe for driving [...] More ISPs now charge fortunes for blowing your bandwidth cap. Netflix.ca now lets you choose a lower quality video stream for one-third the bandwidth consumption. While Skype automatically adjusts your quality to fit available CPU, bandwidth, and connectivity, would it make sense to offer a bandwidth-conserving user preference for lower resolution video? We have a new high: 30 million people logged into Skype at the same time. I’d guess this puts the number of active Skype users about 180 million, since most people turn off Skype at night and don’t log in every day. Dialtone is one measure of the size and capacity of a [...] Swaraj Sarkar asked me: Which of the following factors are responsible for Skype’s Success? Constant improvement of Product quality. Regularly updating the product mix. Product promotion through various forms of media. Customer support Advent of Social Networking Growth through word of mouth Not using the concept of trial version If there [...] My hopes were raised when I heard you can tweet within Skype by using the mouse menu on a contact or an IM message. It turns out Tweetie was using a MacOS feature to offer its services inside other applications. So you can tweet from inside browsers, IRC apps, email, etc. I should [...] I posted 8 Skype hacks for decentralized Agile teams earlier this week. Assembla provides tools for programmers and posted about their mostly positive experiences with distributed pair programming. They tweaked the experience to avoid synchronous (live) work, supporting different time zones. Download Skype for Mac 5.1.0.914. New features, seen in the Windows version: Skype highlights avatars of active speakers so you know who is speaking. You can pick recently called numbers from the dial pad. Skype asks for quality feedback after your call. Also, “contact groups” are shown on the right hand side, to leave [...] Qik for iOS is now out in free and $2.99 versions. The three bucks buys you video editing, real-time effects, “HD quality” video, file sync to your camera roll. Both let you point and shoot live video, streaming to friends or the web, and live video calling. Jim Courtney and I tested Qik Video Connect’s [...] api | codecs | games | GDC | hollywood | platformers | silk | Skype | Skype Partner Watch | skypelandia | Technology | VoIP Valve’s Steam MMO RPG game delivery system (rent, don’t buy; play without downloads; one identity across games; common APIs) will use the free SILK codec. This will build SILK’s wideband audio quality into the Steam player, although games may exploit it. Correction: You do in fact buy games; but the games have the option of [...] Irrawaddy reports Burma’s Myanmar Posts and Telecommunication (MPT) ordered a stop to competitive over-the-top services. From the order: “The increasing use of the VoIP overseas calls via the Internet services such as Skype, G [Google] Talk, Pfingo, VZO, etc. given by PACs [Public Access Centers] and cyber cafés have caused official overseas calls through the [...] |
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