Photos of Skype’s Stockholm office in an old brewery by the architect. High Ikea, modest budget, open plan, balcony, brand-color accents, subtle we’re-in-the-audio-video-business iconography. 29,000 square feet (2700 square meters). Modern interior contrasted against classic exterior. Does the eye candy help people reach higher levels of personal productivity, social cohesion, and collective effectiveness? Does [...]
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Download Skype for Android 2.0 from the Android Market. Available for Skype users in all markets, all wireless operators. Its new one-to-one video calling features require a user-facing camera; if you have two cameras, you can use both and switch between cameras during a call. [Look-at-me! Look-at-that! Look-at-me!] Skype has yet to offer group video [...] Skype – Employee Presentation var docstoc_docid=”83058145″;var docstoc_title=”Skype – Employee Presentation”;var docstoc_urltitle=”Skype – Employee Presentation”; From the 2009 briefing to employees after the Skype Limited Partners (SLP) took over from eBay: "Good Leaver": someone who gets fired without "Cause" Gets the fair-market value of their currently vested option “Bad Leaver”: someone who resigns, or is [...] The U.S. House of Representatives (the lower half of the United States Congress) approved the use of Skype and ooVoo today. Thousands of electeds and staff can now use video calling do the people’s business. The Committee on Administration opened its public Wi-Fi networks to these services after a year of debate and discussion and [...] XMPP is the data communication protocol used by Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Aol Instant Messenger, Microsoft Windows Live Messenger and most Jabber IM networks to connect users to each other. Skype’s new Windows 5.5 Beta comes with an XMPP engine, used to talk with Facebook’s servers, revealed when you look at the desktop client’s Internet [...] Qik’s new app is a bit like Flip Video’s desktop app and serves the same purpose. Copy Qik videos from your phone to your PC or Mac, organize, and share with friends via Gmail (not other email services), Twitter (not other microblog or blogging services), or Facebook (not other social networks), and YouTube (not other [...] Dear Yee Lee, thanks for your How employees get screwed in private equity deals blog post. Dear Skype employees: Check your contracts. Call a lawyer. Watch your back. Let me know how you’re doing. Dear Silver Lake, what the hell? Dear Dan Primack, thanks for further explaining how Skype employees and alumni can [...] A Skype for iPad demonstration video leaked on YouTube. Skype’s Jonathan Christensen, Vice President, Emerging Opportunities [cool title] is speaking Tuesday at the Emerging Communications Conference on “The Next Wave of Video Communications.” The blurb suggests two product announcements: an iPad client and SkypeKit: Late last year, IMS Research reported that we’d passed the [...] Today’s book is a biopunk science fiction novel, The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, in honor of the Foresight @ Google 25th Anniversary Conference Celebration & Reunion Weekend, starting tonight. These adventurous scientists, futurists, technologist and investors are my peeps and I’m looking forward to the reunion. To the book… I loved The Windup [...] Skype Journal called for a “naked Skype” or a “headless Skype” in 2005, before eBay bought Skype. We wanted a Skype engine without a user interface, fully scriptable, that would let us build gateways that talk to the Skype network, include Skype inside desktop applications, and embed Skype in hardware. How hard is it to [...] Skype released Skype for Windows 5.5.0.110 Beta today. Download the Beta. Features per Skype blog post: Facebook Instant Messaging – chat with your Facebook friends directly from Skype. Facebook Contacts Tab – a new tab within Skype dedicated to your Facebook contacts list. ‘Like’ and even comment on a Facebook status – You can [...] Communication is well mapped and settled territory. So is telecommunication, video conferencing, and messaging. This means talk, in its many forms, is full of competitors that know how to string two digital tin cans together. Collaboration is unmapped and unclaimed. People come together with common purpose, choose goals, and work towards those goals [...] Skype fired talented leaders last week, saying only “as part of a recent internal shift Skype has made some management changes.” Yeah, and water is wet. David Gurlé, Christopher Dean, Russ Shaw, Don Albert, Doug Bewsher, and Anne Gillespie are gone. Joseph Galante added Qik’s Ramu Sunkara (Qik EVP for carrier relations) and Allyson [...] Sorry, but posting here was faster than posting to Skype’s Jira. Korean contact name shows fine on the bottom left, not on the top right. Highlighted in yellow. [...] |
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