Archive for August, 2010

Just Add Talk: Skype?s Value Propositions for Developers

Monday, August 16th, 2010

What will Skype offer independent developers in late-2010?
Developers are shopping for features that enhance their products/services. Skype’s top five developer features:
Talk Power. Skype is so successful because people love to talk with each other. Skype lets you build conversation into your application. Skype’s modes let you pick from degrees of latency and intimacy, from [...]

Just Add Talk: Skype?s Value Propositions for Developers

Monday, August 16th, 2010

What will Skype offer independent developers in late-2010?
Developers are shopping for features that enhance their products/services. Skype’s top five developer features:
Talk Power. Skype is so successful because people love to talk with each other. Skype lets you build conversation into your application. Skype’s modes let you pick from degrees of latency and intimacy, from [...]

43 Things I?d Like to See Built On SkypeKit

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Calling all developers:
Home Wi-Fi Gateways. I want a copy of Skype running just outside my firewall that’s eligible to become a supernode or relay. This should help me (and my neighbors) have better Skype p2p connectivity.
External disk drives. The better to transfer files securely, if you please.
TiVos and other DVRs. Not all televisions [...]
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Android Developers Get Nexus One Developer Phone

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Android Developers Blog: Nexus One Developer Phone http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Google has announced that the unlocked Google Nexus One (Google Droid) is available to registered developers for $529.00
The Nexus One phone comes with Android 2.2 (Froyo) on modern hardware. Developers could use either SDK, NDK to develop applications for the Android platform. Other than being a developer platform…
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FCC’s Closed-Door Net Neutrality Meetings Break Down

Monday, August 9th, 2010

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has called off its closed-door meetings with various tech companies after they failed to reach common ground on net neutrality. "We have called off this round of stakeholder discussions. It has been productive on several fronts, but has not generated a robust framework to preserve the openness and freedom [...]

Nimbuzz?s Tobias Kemper about Skype and the future of conversation

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

Nimbuzz blends several IM, status, and voice calling services into one mobile user interface, Skype included. Fring, a similar service, shut down its Skype features in July. I had a chance to discuss how people really talk, Nimbuzz’s experience and hopes for Skype, and the future of communication with Tobias Kemper (@tek). Mr. Kemper is [...]

Skype is SkypeKit?s adoption barrier

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Skype is readying SkypeKit, a component programmers can put into their software. I interviewed a software CEO about this idea.  Paul Grayson runs Alibre Inc., makers of professional 3D CAD/CAM at a $99 price point.
You’d think there would be a strong need to build collaboration tools into the app. So about 2001 he did. IM, [...]

Pre-Internet Skype advert

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Maximedia put out this brochure for their seminars last month. Put together by advertising agency Moma Propaganda, Sao Paulo, Brazil, with creative director Rodolfo Sampaio, art director Marco Martins, copywriter Adriano Matos, and illustrator 6B Studio.
They capture the retro feel of the 1930s and ’40s. CRTs for screens, bulky headphones, extension cords for the [...]
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Meet The 2600hz Project, The New Sound of Open Source Telephony

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

I really miss my Bluebox and the days then that would work.  Gotta love the $5 rRdbox from hallmark or the infamous Blotto Box that was no joke at all.  We salute you Captain Crunch!  Gigaom – Some of the core developers behind FreePBX — a well-known, open-source phone system — have teamed up and [...]