role play on skype

If you will play D&D, GURPS, or White Wolf RPGs online with dragon8u (aka Rob from San Jose, California), he will download Skype again. Help Skype. Drop Rob a line.
(Skype Journal, building the Skype population one person at a time.)

tags: skype, dungeons, dragons, gurps, white-wolf, play, fun, rpg, rpgs, collaboration

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i heart the skype test call lady

Happy Valentines Day!

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i heard it through the skypevine

"soooo....i heard u had skype sex with PK ;)"

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did u have skype sex?

I sooo want to use that API.

Happy Valentine's Day.

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gross, kinda

"Wife just coined a new word in normal conversation: skype sex. The word I said in return was: gross, kinda."

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skypesex bad for sleep

"That's not healthy. I'd recommend less skype phone sex. It'll help regulate normal sleeping."

i will sex you up

"Tyler, seriously, you need to get skype. It is far superior to both AIM and MSN. I will sex you up via web cam if you get skype"

promises, promises.

(Is Skype still hiring a marketing vp?)

do people use it for other things too?

"Ah, yes, my beloved Skype. How could i have virtual sex with my boyfriend without it? Do people use it for other things, too?"

How important is Skype to your love life?

party with us later

"Don't go to sleep. Come on Skype and party with us later."

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get thee to sleep

"GET TO SLEEP, but if not, get on skype :D"

can't skype tonite

"don't worry if you can't skype tonite, get some sleep."

head on my pillow

"Going to sleep now.. Maybe.. I might. But then again, I might be on my iPod waiting for a skype call. :)"

noodling the wife

"can't sleep. again. cup-a-noodle supper with wife over skype."

lonelyskypr16

"YOU disappeared from Skype. I had no one to talk to while I couldn't sleep. *sniffle*"

[presence is Skype's way of letting friends know you can fill in the gaps when they can't sleep]

unsleeping friends

"Can't sleep so I may as well find all my friends on Skype instead"

they pulled me back in

"was just oing to go to sleep but asked me to go on skype so here i am back on comp"

dawn is the new bedtime

"Sounds like me most days. In fact Saturday was chatting to @someone WY4N until 6:10am on Skype as I couldn't sleep."

brain too dead

"Haven't wrote 1 more word, ah well, too awake to sleep, brain too dead to function, just laze around on skype i spose :)"

cold wifi

Time zones + Skype = sleep lost.

Solution: nap to make up for a sleep debt.

up all night

hmmm. Skype hangovers for the sleep deprived?

to bed

Dear friend, when I'm falling asleep at the keyboard, please tell me to step back from the computer, go to sleep, and get back to you. Thanks.

drunk skype

Drinking impairs judgment.

Don't drink and Skype.

 

Don't drink and Skype me.

nuts on skype

Sleep deprivation affects judgment.

Really.

Sleep before Skyping.

skype or sleep

What's your choice? Skype? or Sleep?

watch out gotomeeting

Will Skype desktop sharing challenge Skype’s developer ecosystem or support it?

Skype giving Journalists access to Gaza Strip

Skype helps reporters flatten the earth and get to subjects around the world. Take Gaza, for example…

Have you seen other Skype reportage from war zones?

Technorati tags: skype, journalism, reporting, israel, gaza, war

pathological

Clinical care over the Internet.

"Second opinion" service should be popular.

Skype's audio and video quality will affect health.

Great opportunity for labor market arbitrage, time shifting, space shifting.

Is it more important to be first to market or is it better to group with other speech pathologists to increase availability and scale up marketing?

Would your first place to search be Google or Skype's directory?

tags: skype, speech, pathology, speech pathology, skypenomics, healthcare, medicine, twitter

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die... now

tags: skype, spim, spam, spit

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spam as bugs

Ease of scripting new apps
is nearly as important
to a software platform's success
as the forgiveness
of friends.

zip 'n' skype

IM as workaround for email?

File transfer is a feature of Yahoo! Messenger but it seems Ashlyn, Mischa and Val don't use it. Despite using Yahoo! Mail. Is Yahoo! converting its mail users to Messenger faster than they're switching to Skype?

my new favorite thing

i don't think i like my mom knowing

Online social proximity leads to social intimacy, but one size doesn't fit all. Faceted identity and faceted presence adjust what we share according to our relationships.

famcams

Wishlist:

Does Logitech sell high quality Skype webcams in family packs? Support the viral impulse.

Tips:

1. Position Skype below the webcam. So you’ll be looking “at” the people on the other end of a video call.
2. Look for noise cancellation in speakerphones. Clears up background noise. A little.
3. Keep a notepad and marker handy to show hand drawn notes. Nothing talks like doodles.
4. If you talk with your hands, sit back so the webcam picks up all of you.
5. Get a hand mirror to check your grooming. Nothing like having someone point out food stuck in your teeth from across the world.
6. Turn off automatic answer of video calls. Who knows what you’ll be wearing?
7. Reserve Skype names for your loved ones, especially kids. Don’t leave them with georgewbush29837647a.
8. Chat before you call. Invite them to video, don’t assume they want to now. Netiquette.
9. Make a contact group for your family. Easier to look them up.

What did I miss?

free and brainless

Hmm. Maybe it’s time for Skype to launch Skype Mail with Skype video built in?

Wii Speak connects living rooms

Nintendo Wii owners can buy a Wii Speak speakerphone and talk to three friends also using Wii Speak. Nintendo bundles Wii Speak with Animal Crossing: City Folk and other software.

The social model emphasizes privacy. Your identity is secret. You must exchange Speak IDs before you can talk, and there is no public directory.

Wii Speak let’s you IM, leave voice messages, annotate video messages, and speak live during some games. In City Folk, your Wii Mii avatars speak your chats with comic strip style balloons.

It’s a closed system. Only microphones licensed by Nintendo will work with the system. Approved gear will show the Wii Speak icon (on the right) on their packaging.

This is not a platform play.

But it could be.

In-game talk is a fixture of RTS like World of Warcraft (voice chat and conferencing through third parties like Skype, TeamSpeak, or Ventrilo), virtual worlds like Second Life (includes f2f and distance voice chat), and multigame platforms like Xbox Live (voice and video chat).

The Wii, however, is culturally different from other online gaming social spaces. Wii folks don’t consider themselves as “hard-core gamers”. Yet. So it’s good for the Wii Speak team to slowly discover what works best for Wiiland. Wii Speak is a good first step.

See also:

• 17 Ways VoIP Has Improved My Gaming Experience: One hard-core gamer describes how VoIP has helped her up her game. by Laura Milligan, January 30, 2008.
• Wii Speak Unboxing and WiiSpeak Channel Review by Chris. video.
• Hiii! Demonstrating the Wii Speak Channel voice message process. video.
• Wii Speak Channel - How to Download. video.
• Video interview with one of Wii Speak’s creators. I love the fishing expedition. July 2008. 

Technorati tags: wii, skype, voip, nintendo, wii speak, wiispeak, gaming, games, play, talk, speak

good webcam?

50 people

I use HiDef Conferencing for my work with DataPortability.org. You can Skype into your conference bridge directly for better audio quality. Free trials through February. But 50 people will cost you about $1 per person per month after that.

good defaults

snap to edge

bad zeldman

make skype dinner

fireskype

somatosensory skype

somatosensory on Wikipedia (touch).

gas free skype

dog cake

don't friend me

skype mass

Twitter4Skype. Following Your Twitter Life within Skype

Borderless Communicator's Hudson Barton and I both follow our Twitter friends using a nifty third party Skype utility called Twitter4Skype. Basically you set up Twitter4Skype as a Skype Contact and enter your account information. Going forward, whenever you are logged onto Skype and a Tweet arrives from one of those whom you are "Following", it will pop up in a Twitter4Skype chat window. And, of course, your messages placed into a Twitter4Skype chat window become "Tweets" seen by all your Twitter Followers.

We both have had many requests for instruction on how to set up Twitter4Skkype. Hudson has authored for Skype Journal a review of Twitter4Skype with all the details:

Twitter4Skype: A Review
by Hudson Barton

One of my favorite online tools is "Twitter4Skype". Not very many people know about "T4S", but if you are a fan of both Skype and Twitter, your life will be made much happier and more productive if you use this little robot. It does not require you to download any software. There are no additional processes to clog up your computer. There are no additional windows for you to deal with. Everything runs within Skype as a normal Skype chat session. It could not be simpler.

• First, the robot posts your tweets directly into your twitter account from Skype. When you IM into your Twitter4Skype chat session, the message appears automatically in your Twitter feed.
• Second, the robot gathers tweets of everyone whom you are following and posts them to you in the same Skype chat session.

Installing twitter4skype:

1. Using "Add a Contact", search for and add "twitter4skype" as a Skype contact.
2. Open a chat session with "twitter4skype"
3. Type the following into the chat window (to tell the robot about your your Twitter account and give the robot permission to access it):
   
   1. /account (shift+return)
      
   2. twitteraccountname (shift+return)
      
   3. twitteraccountpassword (return)
      
4. The robot should return: "twitter4skype Registration complete!"

Running Twitter4Skype:

1. The next time you write a chat message to "twitter4skype", the entry will appear on your Twitter account and a confirmation of your posting will appear in the chat. Note that only the first 140 characters of your posting will be received by Twitter, so keep it short and sweet.
2. You will begin to receive your friends’ twitters in the one-to-one Skype chat session with T4S.
3. Try adding another Skype contact to the chat you are having with T4S. You have now established a one-way group Twitter feed. What you (and only you) post into that chat will be distributed to Twitter and to the other members of the chat. Incoming tweets will be distributed to all chat participants.
4. Try adding the T4S contact to another group chat: You have just established a special relationship between Twitter and yourself that distributes your posts (and only your posts) from that chat into your Twitter stream. Incoming tweets are not posted into this extra chat, but go to your main T4S chat only.

Tricks for keeping twitter4skype healthy and happy:

Twitter4skype is running on a server in Tokyo Japan. Its reliability and the stability of the server have been improving, but like everything in our technological world (especially free services), it sometimes disappoints. Although you might glean the following tips from the Twitter4Skype help screen (accessed by typing "#help" in the chat), here is how to avoid some common problems:

• Situation: T4S appears to be offline. Occasionally T4S will appear to be offline when it is actually online. You will not be able to receive your Twitter feed in this state and you will not be able to post your own twitter either. You can "wake up" T4S" by calling it. When you do, your queued incoming tweets will be posted to you immediately, and afterwards you will be able to post your own tweets. If this does not work, then T4S is actually offline rather than only appearing so.
  
• Situation: T4S appears to be online but is unresponsive. Occasionally T4S will "forget" its relationship with you. Although it is online, you are not receiving incoming tweets and it will not post your outgoing tweets. You can force T4S to reset your relationship by typing "#on" into the T4S chat window. T4S will respond with a "welcome back" message.

What the Robot can't do:

Twitter4Skype is a simple robot. It knows only the tricks outlined above. Here are some tricks I wish it could do additionally:

• My Twitter use is evolving toward two separate accounts; one for personal and one for business to reflect my multiple personalities. But I really want to run only one Skype account and have both twitter accounts feed into it. So, with my second twitter account I would like to create a second T4S account and run it inside the same Skype name with separate T4S chats. Unfortunately, that is impossible. One T4S account per Skype name is the limit.
  
• Twitter4Skype is all about following and being followed by Twitter users. Now imagine you could follow and be followed by Skype users in the same way (without sharing contact information). Skype users are already connected to a universe of some 36 million other active Skype users worldwide. So why can't Skype establish a network of followers within its own system. A percentage of those contacts will lead to shared Skype contact information, and those relationships will lead to increased Skype calling. A pseudo Skype chat established for this purpose would be one way to implement the concept.

Thanks, Hudson.

One additional point: If you have set up your Twitter feed to send tweets into your Facebook status message, then entering a message into a Twitter4Skype session will also pass it along to become your "current" Facebook status message. Same applies if you have linked Friend feed to your Twitter messages. (Unfortunately nobody has offered a means to pass your tweets along to your Skype Mood Message.)

And, when I am away from my office, I am able to follow my Twitter activity as a "twitter4skype" chat session in iSkoot on my BlackBerry.

Tags: Hudson Barton, Borderless Communicator, twitter4skype, Twitter, Facebook, BlackBerry, iSkoot

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obviously very necessary

skype in cisco telepresence?

economic heartache

"More economic heartache! Email from Skype just notified me that my $0.18 of Skype credit will expire in 7 days!" - Scott Sorheim

a jedi you must be

"skype, a jedi you must be to beat it." - Marc Lehmann

garbled skies

"Report from 40,000 ft on AA's new WiFi service: It's very fast (YouTube works great) but Skype is blocked (calls are garbled)." - Philip Kaplan

oom pah pah

by David Yack

(is this a good thing?)

(the world is getting smaller)

but skype is working

by Eva

(how cool is that? skype finds a way)

Skype Joe The Plumber

"They need to get Joe The Plumber conferenced into the debate on Skype" - ijefff

Too late for that. But you can SkypeOut to Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, an employee of Newell Plumbing & Heating (a plumbing firm), and a resident of Toledo suburb Holland, Ohio. Skype your drain and sewer cleaning problems to +1-419-868-1228, +1-419-472-5304, or +1-419-868-3045.

Wishlist: sharable emoticon sets

Clearly we need larger, more varied, more topic-specific visual vocabularies. James Bridle is a visual guy and I'm sure he could have come up with emoticons specific to cowboy romance cinema. The better to share stories with friends.

For me, I sooo want a bunch of Jewish emoticons, like: 

(borscht)
(bagel)
(matzoh)
(2candles)
(feh)
(oy)
(minyan)
(lox)
(kvel)
(tzitzit)
(dancingchasid)
(chelm)
(kosher)
(treif)
(bris)
(guilt)
(crushingglass)
(daven)
(dreydl)
(megillah)
(lchaim)
(shofar)

These have meaning for me, are part of my social vocabulary. Glad to provide translations if anyone cares.

But this list is specific to me and my tribe.

It would be enormous fun to have additional emoticon sets to freely, easily and safely share and trade. If you don't have a set, you see the text. If you do, you see the art. Inherently viral, social, meaningful.

And fun.

tags: skype, wishlist, emoticons

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Plip! Ploop! Nreeeerrrr

by casi

is there a setting for this?

by totally_anon

critical mass

by Malena

(how many friends must switch to make a new network worthwhile?)

(what is the frequency distribution of buddy list size? how does that distribution vary by duration of Skype experience? by activity?)

sprint being uncooperative

by Leslie Wilkinson

(Using the Internet as alternative to POTS, mobile service, and roaming charges)

tags: skype, sprint, venezuela

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more sister

by Kurtado
(the power of presence, convenience, affordability, quality to change behavior)

tags: skype, uk, usa, family

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4 generations

by Sean Moran

tags: skype, video, family, recording

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excellent

I think there should be an e-motion on my cell and skype which displays Mr. Burns with hands clasped together every time I type "excellent"

- Ben Ross

tags: skype, twitter, emoticons, emotions, the simpsons, mr. burns, excellent

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fring iphone buzz

Fring is clearly tapping pent-up demand for access to Skype on mobiles. The enthusiasm for rejoining your Skype network is infectious.

The biggest limits for me: no multichat support (a big part of my onlife), no background processing (like I only live in Skype?). Jim Courtney's hands-on test may dampen your enthusiasm for fring on the iPhone. Have you had a good experience with fring? 

tags: skype, fring, iphone, apple

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who's coming to the skypeover?

(first, in July)

(then early September)

(October)

(and it continues...)

(all of this with audio conferencing)

(now imagine a skypeover with multiparty video)

tags: skype, skypeover, sleepover, skype survivor, sleep, party, fun, conferencing

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seeing skype commercials

"I keep seeing these Skype commercials. Anyone familiar with it? Does it work well for conferencing?" -- John Kreiss

(what you want to see from big television spend: inquiry, word of mouth, brand notes grokked)

tags: skype, ebay, marketing, advertising, tv, wordofmouth

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card

"quick poll for realtors; what would you put on your business card other than the required info? skype? twitter? website? blog? AIM? others?" -- Sasha Cannon Farmber

"@sashafarmer blog is a must. I also put skype on the card" - Matthew Rathbun

(wishing moo card still partnered with skype)

tags: skype, business card, calling card, identity

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a year in china

"@johnkreiss When my friend spend a year in China, she used Skype to talk to her family back home. Apparently great quality, low/no cost." --  Jenny

texas peeps

"loves Skype! keeps me in touch with my Texas peeps!" -- Jackie Gilbert

tags: skype, texas, distance, friendster

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Skype television commercials?

People are all atwitter over Skype television commercials on NBC in the United States.

"OMG!! Just saw a skype commercial on NBC11. Didn't expect that" - Robbie Trencheny

"Just saw a Skype ad on NBC during The Office." - Jon Ursenbach

"It shouldn't, but it kinda weirds me out that Skype has TV commercials now." - Ariel Waldman

"A Skype commercial on primetime tv? wtf?" - Jon Low

Mobile operator 3 ran this commercial for the Skypephone in Austria.

No footage yet on the new NBC commercial.

tags: skype, video, television, commercial, nbc, nbc11, theoffice, tv, ad, ads, advertising, marketing, us, at, austria

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skyping friends while watching television

Clearly these two behaviors go together well. Watching television can be a social activity, something to talk about or to talk over. It's context or pretext for talking, grooming, bonding. Dancing.

 

Appointment television or event programming,

Events like political debates.

Ah, there's a US presidential debate tonight.

So, how could you more tightly couple TV+Skype? Watch TV in Skype? Talk (IM/voice/video) in Skype over TV?

Is that the sweet spot for Skype integration into television viewing?

Is this a reason to build Skype into Joost? into TiVo? into Hulu or YouTube?

tags: skype, research, consumerbehavior, hannahmontana, debate, us, tv, television, video, joost, tivo, hulu, youtube, party, danceparty

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goldfish-eating skype dweeb

"I knew it. you turned into a goldfish-eating Skype dweeb." - Cameron Kaiser

defenestration

"Argh. If Skype was a physical, solid thing, I would have chucked it through the window half an hour ago. :(" - Walker Moore

skype with more-online screen sharing

"Skype with More-Online Screen sharing tool http://skype.mikogo.com Looks very good-any testimonials?" - Angela Maiers

(Mikogo is the free Windows version of BeamYourScreen)

(Mikogo has a Skype plug-in to help you launch from Skype)

(Screen sharing is inherently viral, like Skype)

tags: skype, mikogo, screensharing, screen sharing, desktop sharing, beamyourscreen, extras, software, virality

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boss just discovered

"Boss just discovered Skype..... Might be getting rid of all that is the glory of Packet8" - J.J. Merrick

yucky hookers

"I keep getting these women that sound like hookers trying to contact me through skype. They think I'm a guy. Yuck." - skinner

tags: skype, hookers, spam, sex, gender, privacy, identity

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pure class

"Skype ripped me off.. and the suggest I pay them more money to fix it. pure class" -- Daniel Cremer

(Old saying: "one happy customer tells one person, a dissatisfied customer tells five". The Internet and social media multiply both)

UPDATE:

tags: skype, customer service, money, tech support

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Please send photos from Skype Beta Days in Greece

"el martes me voy a Grecia por los Beta Days de Skype, pero lo de Alitalia podria impedirlo... Y dejarme tirada en Roma. Interesante."

(The Skype beta tester community convenes in the Mediterranean to meet each other and Skype's new leadership team)

(Part of a methodical campaign of stakeholder relations)

tags: skype, developers, devrels, beta, betatesters

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cataclysm

"I'm signed in to Skype but it looks like everyone is offline. Makes me worried about some cataclysmic event I may have missed." -- Rian

A nod to collective presence?

why the frack not

"i thought everyone uses skype. and if you don't, why the frack not?" -- Kiran Denniz

(life from inside a happy social network)
(driving force for virality)