April Fools ideas for next year
Skype announces the return of the 1MB windows client. An end to bloat. Skype HQ phone number auctioned on eBay. Tencent Buys Skype, Moves HQ to Shenzhen. Now with free spyware. AT&T and Comcast start bidding war for Skype. Skype now translated into Na’vi, Klingon, Elvish, Ancient Greek, Latin, Babylonian Cuneiform, Esperanto. Meg Whitman crashes Skype when friending 20 million California voters. Skype for Cars: Speech UI. Video calls projected on windshield. Dashboard sharing. p2p augmented by car-to-car networks. Chinese government improves filtering technology; dubs out forbidden phrases from Skype voice calls in real time. Instead of Tiananmen Square you’re heard to say Toffee Square. Iron Man 2 suit to feature Skype mobile. Problems with vertical roaming outside of Verizon 3G zones. Skype for Musicians. Now embedded in keyboards, guitars, wind instruments. tricky dialing. MusicXML, midi. emoticon generator from music. licensing deals with record labels. Skype mobile for futbols. In time for FIFA world cup. Skype for IMAX. The audience speaks. (Take that, THX) l’shanah haba’ah b’AprilFools