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Skype Public Chat

Yesterday Om put up a GigaOm post, Skype on iPhone to be released as early as next week. While it’s still an unconfirmed “exclusive” rumor (and you can safely bet the eBay PR hounds are looking for any leak source if this is a leak), it does raise the issue of what we should [...]

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Categories Communications News, Mobile Applications, Skype on Mobile

Skype For SIP: Sorting Through the Issues

by Jim Courtney on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 10:03 am

Yesterday’s announcement of the Skype for SIP beta created lots of commentary in the blogosphere; it remained the leading topic on Techmeme for several hours.

Phil Wolff over at Skype Journal, in “Skype For SIP: Big Money, Skypeless, Brand Destroyer”, outlines some of the positioning with respect to Skype for Asterisk, channel schism issues and [...]

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Categories Communications Stories, Skype For Business, Skype Platform

Over the past eight months 1.2 million Skype users have participated in the Skype for Windows 4.0 beta program (stage 1, stage 2, stage 3). During this beta period, not only current user feedback was sought but also feedback from new users installing Skype for the first time. The goal was to provide a user [...]

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Categories Skype For Business, Skype News, Skype Software, Skype for Personal

Alternatives to Skypecasts

by Jim Courtney on Fri, Aug 29, 2008 7:08 am

While there has been lots of dismay about the discontinuation of Skypecasts (Skype’s blog posts: here and here), it had appeared for the past several months that the service just did not have the robustness to provide the reliability and quality of service that users would expect. Being a free service, it was obviously placing [...]

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Categories Communications Stories, Conversation Providers, Service Providers, Skype For Business, Skype News, Skype Software, Using Skype

Over the past few months I have had reason to host, or participate in, voice calls involving more than two parties. Product demonstrations, daily Squawk Box sessions and weekly “broadcast” calls involving 200 or more participants have become part of my routine. But each is a different type of multi-party call.
Yesterday, along with several of [...]

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2007’s Top Ten Skype Accomplishments

by Jim Courtney on Fri, Dec 28, 2007 3:12 pm

While this blog tends to focus on new developments and the role they can play in our future real time conversations, it sometimes pays to look back to see what has been accomplished. For 2007, these are, from my perspective, top ten accomplishments for the Skype ecosystem:
1. eBay CEO Meg Whitman states at an eBay [...]

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Categories Communications Stories, Developers, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform, Skype Software, Using Skype

Skype and eBay: Auction Conversations.

by Jim Courtney on Thu, Nov 29, 2007 10:11 am

Ever since eBay’s acquisition of Skype over two years ago, there has been speculation as to how eBay and Skype should be “integrated” to enhance the auction process. While not the world’s most active eBay participant, I have used it several times to acquire items not normally available in Canada and to sell (ironically) a [...]

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Categories Skype For Business, Skype Operations, Skype Partner Solutions

Public Chat Limit Raised to 150

by Jim Courtney on Thu, Jun 7, 2007 9:06 am

Dan York, over at Disruptive Telephony and a permanent participant in the Skype 3.x Discussion public chat, has just pointed us to Skype’s announcement that the limit for participants in Skype Public Chats has been raised to 150.
Dan is perplexed (and I am also) as to why we often see the actual number of participants [...]

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Skype 3.0 — New Feature Guide….

by Jim Courtney on Thu, Nov 9, 2006 7:11 pm

Yesterday Skype released its initial Skype for Windows 3.0 beta with several new features. However, the press release does not really show the entire picture and, in fact, two of the four features mentioned were available in the previous 2.6 beta – namely, Click-to-Call and Skypecasts Live. Click-to-Call is simply an embedding of the previously [...]

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