Archive for November, 2011

US House of Reps permits Skype, ooVoo for constituent visits a year later

Friday, November 25th, 2011

The U.S. House of Representatives (the lower half of the United States Congress) approved the use of Skype and ooVoo today.  Thousands of electeds and staff can now use video calling do the people?s business. The  Committee on Administration opened its public Wi-Fi networks to these services after a year of debate and discussion [...]
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Leaving early? You were warned. See slide 8

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Skype – Employee Presentation var docstoc_docid=”83058145″;var docstoc_title=”Skype – Employee Presentation”;var docstoc_urltitle=”Skype – Employee Presentation”; From the 2009 briefing to employees after the Skype Limited Partners (SLP) took over from eBay: "Good Leaver": someone who gets fired without "Cause" Gets the fair-market value of their currently vested option ?Bad Leaver?: someone who resigns, or [...]
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Skype for Android 2.0.0.45 adds video calling

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Download Skype for Android 2.0 from the Android Market. Available for Skype users in all markets, all wireless operators. Its new one-to-one video calling features require a user-facing camera; if you have two cameras, you can use both and switch between cameras during a call. [Look-at-me! Look-at-that! Look-at-me!] Skype has yet to offer group [...]
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Culture: Photos of Skype?s Swedish brewery office

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Photos of Skype?s Stockholm office in an old brewery by the architect. High Ikea, modest budget, open plan, balcony, brand-color accents, subtle we?re-in-the-audio-video-business iconography. 29,000 square feet (2700 square meters). Modern interior contrasted against classic exterior. Does the eye candy help people reach higher levels of personal productivity, social cohesion, and collective effectiveness? [...]
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Game: Skype Trivia Bot

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Host trivia games in Skype text chats with Renat?s Skype Trivia Bot, a Windows plug-in adapted from the classic IRC bot. Thousands of questions in English and ?? ??????.
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Download: Skype for Mac 5.2

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Download Skype for Mac 5.2.0.1523. CORRECTION: You can now be in group video calls and pay for a Skype Premium subscription, just like the Windows users. You can now screenshare in group video calls, which not even Skype for Windows users can do. From Skype?s blog post and change log: [...]
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XConnect?s VIE directory connects video calling islands

Friday, November 25th, 2011

I spoke with XConnect VP John Wilkinson this morning about their VIE product. VIE?s plumbing connects video calling services to each other. VIE (pronounced vee, the French way), the Video Interconnection Exchange. VIE?s offers three interop services. Registry lookup, signaling, and transport. VIE?s registry is a database of endpoints, each representing [...]
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Google+ and the freedom to switch

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Your product may have it made but people are fickle. Earning their love is the daily work. See you at Facebook?s Amazing Press Conference. art: XKCD.
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When will Skype?s Users Stop Being Skype?s Customers?

Friday, November 25th, 2011

?If you are not paying for it,     you’re not the customer;       you’re the product          being sold.? posted on Metafilter?s ?User-driven discontent? thread by blue_beetle at 1:41 PM on August 26, 2010 Facebook?s customers are its advertisers, making Facebook?s users the product sold to advertisers. This creates a tension between [...]
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Facebook video calling powered by Skype

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Watch live streaming video from facebookannouncements at livestream.com Skype will power fb’s video chat.
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