Weekly reading
Using Skype Using Skype for Pain Management and Treatment of Chronic Pain. A hands-off therapy works just fine via Skype webcam. Alternative Health Journal. 50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom. It’s an awesome list by/for teachers. Teaching Degree.org blog. Soldiers head to war, Skype their mothers. "I’ll Skype as much as I can. But Mom would like me to call every day, all day long, Skype every day, all day long. It doesn’t exactly work that way," joked SPC Forney. Capital News 9, Albany, New York. The World Mind Network advocates Skyping to improve the world. One conversation at a time. Paris rolls out free Wi-Fi hotspots. The better to Skype with coffee. Click here to find the free hot spots in Paris. Too Much Information. "Skype or not to Skype, that is the question. But answering it invokes a larger conundrum: how to perform triage on the communication technologies that seem to multiply like Tribbles ? instant messaging, texting, cellphones, softphones, iChat, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter; how to distinguish among those that will truly enhance intimacy, those that result in T.M.I. and those that, though pitching greater connectedness, in fact further disconnect us from the people we love." New York Times Magazine. Our community Call for Papers: Digital ID World, September 2009, Las Vegas. My rambunctious Call for Speakers at the Emerging Communications Amsterdam to be bold and visionary. Congratulations to Ken Camp, communications community leader extraordinaire and a heckofa nice guy, for joining the eComm team. Charge for online news like SkypeOut does for calls: simple, prepaid, microcharges, no risk. So says James Fallows to Atlantic Monthly. VoSKY PBX-Skype gateways are certified for Mitel PBX switches. Skype trunking to cut costs. This increases VoSKY’s distribution. Live Web, Real Time . . . Call It What You Will, It?s Gonna Take A While To Get It. Mary Hodder calls for better discovery and effective filters in live search. Mary’s one of the early social media thought leaders and a pioneer in real time search. Jajah connected its 1,000,000,000th call. Billionth. Jajah powers the voice parts of services like Yahoo! Voice, eHarmony, Jangl, Plaxo, Joyent, Callwave, Bitwine, iotum and Chumby. Just think: Skype walked away from this business two years’ ago. The Nokia N97 showed up in US stores last week. Did you find Skype preinstalled? Anyone? Anyone? Not due until Q3, but we can hope. Skype seems to be running OK in Iran, assuming you can get online. tags: skype, ecomm, vosky, gateway, jajah, n97, nokia, skypeout, pricingCall me at +1-510-455-4384, Skype me, follow @skypejournal and @Phil Wolff.
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