Product management has a natural tension between features and elegance, the richness of more and the simplicity of less. This is true for APIS as much as for user interfaces. Telecom technology is complex, a high learning curve for outsiders. In the last year I’ve seen Voxeo, TokBox, Skype and now Twilio expand their [...]
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I’ve long been a fan of Rebecca MacKinnon, a reporter turned Internet civil society advocate. Society’s multi-decade conversation about privacy, censorship, and access are turning into a fight for control over the Internet. It’s a contest between government, corporate, and citizen power. Rebecca uses her TED talk to tell stories of this conflict among [...] Love the announcement about Facebook video chat powered by Skype. Lots of questions not answered. Here are a few. I’ll update with answers as they come in. Video calling API from Facebook? Video calling on the mobile Facebook app? Video calling on mobile browsers? Desktop browser compatibility? Is the video p2p or does it [...] Watch live streaming video from facebookannouncements at livestream.com Skype will power fb’s video chat. “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.” posted on Metafilter’s “User-driven discontent” thread by blue_beetle at 1:41 PM on August 26, 2010 Facebook’s customers are its advertisers, making Facebook’s users the product sold to advertisers. This creates a tension between the [...] Your product may have it made but people are fickle. Earning their love is the daily work. See you at Facebook’s Amazing Press Conference. art: XKCD. I spoke with XConnect VP John Wilkinson this morning about their VIE product. VIE’s plumbing connects video calling services to each other. VIE (pronounced vee, the French way), the Video Interconnection Exchange. VIE’s offers three interop services. Registry lookup, signaling, and transport. VIE’s registry is a database of endpoints, each representing a [...]
Download Skype for Mac 5.2.0.1523. CORRECTION: You can now be in group video calls and pay for a Skype Premium subscription, just like the Windows users. You can now screenshare in group video calls, which not even Skype for Windows users can do. From Skype’s blog post and change log: Major [...] Host trivia games in Skype text chats with Renat’s Skype Trivia Bot, a Windows plug-in adapted from the classic IRC bot. Thousands of questions in English and по России. |
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