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Skype’s Jonathan Rosenberg: The Rise of Real Time Social Sharing

by Jim Courtney on Thu, Apr 22, 2010 11:04 pm

At his eComm America 2010 keynote presentation Monday morning, Skype’s recently appointed Chief Technology Strategist Jonathan Rosenberg provided his perspective on where Skype can introduce real time communications into “social sharing” activities.
Positioning the current state of social networking as personal broadcasting where a Twitter or Facebook message “broadcasts” your information out to a selected [...]

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Communications Stories, Conferences and Events, Conversation Providers, Using Skype

Traveling in a Bipolar Mobile Mode

by Jim Courtney on Wed, Dec 30, 2009 3:12 pm

The past six months, with three trips to Europe, have given me the opportunity not only to experience roaming on European 3G wireless services but also the strategies and alternatives that allow me to minimize roaming charges while traveling with both a BlackBerry and iPhone. A key to the achieving this goal lies in [...]

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Communications Stories, Mobile Devices, Skype on Mobile, Using Skype, Wireless Carriers

SocialScope: Why BlackBerry?

by Jim Courtney on Tue, May 19, 2009 3:05 pm

Yesterday’s post, SocialScope: for a Complete, But Managed, Twitter Experience, outlines why I have found SocialScope to be the most complete Twitter client on any platform offered to date. But it only runs on BlackBerry. Why? A recent interview with Ubiquitous Systems CEO Amit Kumar provided the answers.
As their initial goal the Ubiquitous team [...]

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Conversation Providers, Mobile Applications, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications

SocialScope: for a Complete, But Managed, Twitter Experience

by Jim Courtney on Mon, May 18, 2009 5:05 am

When it comes to organizing and following my Twitter activity, I have found that SocialScope – currently in a closed beta and only available on BlackBerry – provides the most complete and most satisfying Twitter user experience. A recent interview with Ubiquitous Systems CEO Amit Kumar provided some additional background on how SocialScope evolved [...]

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Mobile Applications, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tools and Applications

New Job Title Reflects Today’s Reality: Dan York, Director of Conversations, Voxeo

by Jim Courtney on Thu, Mar 12, 2009 10:03 pm

Over the past three years of blogging about IP-based communications, one frequent reference has been to Dan York, who for the past eighteen months has been Director of Emerging Communication Technology in the Office of the CTO at Voxeo, whose story has often been blogged here.
Once he joined Voxeo we noticed that Dan was [...]

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Communications Stories, Service Providers

Skype COO Outlines Skype’s Software Guidelines

by Jim Courtney on Fri, Jan 16, 2009 3:01 pm

During our conversations with Skype COO Scott Durchslag last week at CES, Scott outlined Skype’s criteria for its software development going forward.
First was the emphasis on “liquid communications” through statements such as “Skype Whenever, Wherever”. Just as today you can pick up any PC or mobile platform and find all the Google Tools (Search, Maps, [...]

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Skype News, Skype Platform, Skype Software, Skype on Mobile

The Skype – Oprah Feedback Loop – It’s Works in Strange Ways

by Jim Courtney on Mon, Dec 22, 2008 7:12 pm

This afternoon I came across this article by reporter Chris O’Brien in today’s San Jose Mercury News: “Video Chat has entered the mainstream“. It appears that the worlds of Oprah viewers and Silicon Valley geeks and reporters have more than six degrees of separation. The story starts out by talking about an email he received [...]

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Communications Stories, Skype News, Skype for Personal, Using Skype

Bold Twittering: When is a SmartPhone Truly a Mobile Microcomputer?

by Jim Courtney on Mon, Dec 22, 2008 8:12 am

If I ever had any doubt about the value of Twitter as a commercial social networking tool, it evaporated this weekend as a result of following some Tweets on the subject of smartphones that appeared this weekend. They certainly provide an independent perspective on issues that I’m sure others are wondering about:
Mark Evans acquired an [...]

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Communications Stories, Mobile Devices, Skype on Mobile

Twitter4Skype. Following Your Twitter Life within Skype

by Jim Courtney on Sun, Nov 16, 2008 8:11 am

Borderless Communicator 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 [...]

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Skype For Business, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype for Personal, Using Skype

CaliiFlower Conference Call Training Videos

by Jim Courtney on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:09 pm

When Skypecast was shut down at the end of August, I suggested three alternatives that can be considered as cost effective replacements for those serious about multi-party discussions.
iotum CalliFlower serves as the host for the daily SquawkBox conference call discussing communications news of the day as well as featured guest interviews. (Full disclosure: I usually [...]

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Service Providers, Skype on Mobile, Using Skype

Phweet – Ruthlessly Simplified Disintermediation

by Jim Courtney on Wed, Jul 30, 2008 8:07 pm

When I received this Twitter message earlier this afternoon:

clicked on the embedded URL and immediately was listening in on a conversation involving not only Stuart Henshall but also David Beckemeyer of Televolution (producer of PhoneGnome – now known as the PhweetGeek), I found I was in for a most interesting conversation experience. Within minutes we [...]

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Communications Stories, Communications Technology, Conversation Providers

IT Gets Personal: Jonathan Christensen’s Personal Experience

by Jim Courtney on Sun, May 25, 2008 8:05 am

Our choice of PC’s and the associated applications are becoming a factor in the definition of our personality:: Windows or Mac? IBM or Dell? Our smartphone choices are becoming a factor in the definition of our personality. Blackberry, iPhone or, Nokia?
But just as important is how these associations are also playing a role in how [...]

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Communications Stories, Communications Technology, Using Skype