I agree on nearly all points with Om?s analysis of why Skype is buying GroupMe, why GroupMe picked Skype, and why it isn?t enough for Skype. For Skype management, more for the Skype everywhere strategy, it fills a gaping user interaction hole, and brings very active young users in many international markets. Skype?s [...]
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Every startup founder is getting this question from investors, and customers. This wasn?t true in 2009. The question speaks to two of Skype?s strengths as it approaches its 8th birthday: brand and network effects. The first strength is brand awareness. Everyone knows Skype. Literally half of Internet users have tried Skype. So Skype [...]
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People need more power over their data. If you think so, vote for my SXSW panel called ?Let My Data Go! Open data portability standards.? I need your vote before Friday, September 2nd. This will let us bring this issue to an important audience. ?Another year and corporate silos still hold your data [...]
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UPDATE: Screenshots including one of my friends and text mentioning him have been altered to hide his identity. Apple added Skype for iPad 1.0.1273 to the iPad?s App store last night. Skype soon tweeted they were not quite ready for the launch, tidying up web sites and such, but they are ready now. [...]
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Product management has a natural tension between features and elegance, the richness of more and the simplicity of less. This is true for APIS as much as for user interfaces. Telecom technology is complex, a high learning curve for outsiders. In the last year I?ve seen Voxeo, TokBox, Skype and now Twilio expand [...]
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I?ve long been a fan of Rebecca MacKinnon, a reporter turned Internet civil society advocate. Society?s multi-decade conversation about privacy, censorship, and access are turning into a fight for control over the Internet. It?s a contest between government, corporate, and citizen power. Rebecca uses her TED talk to tell stories of this conflict [...]
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Love the announcement about Facebook video chat powered by Skype. Lots of questions not answered. Here are a few. I?ll update with answers as they come in. Video calling API from Facebook? Video calling on the mobile Facebook app? Video calling on mobile browsers? Desktop browser compatibility? Is the video p2p or does [...]
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Your kids can Skype Santa (Florida time, Monday, Wednesdays, Fridays through 7 December, 4-5pm) @SandestinResort. I met a bunch of people at the Enterprise 2.0 conference who don?t use Skype, more who only use it for family video calls, a few who use it for international calls, and several who?ve never been interested [...]
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Skype?s stock changes hands. Sometime soon employees may get new badges. Payroll processing and PR firms may change. But, for the most part, Skype?s employees will stay the course, building more Skype in more places. Skype division President Tony Bates must make good on his promise of synergy to Ballmer. The [...]
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Microsoft finished buying Skype. Ballmer?s PR, Bates? PR. Courtney, York, Slashdot opine. Most folks thought this happened last April. I thought the EU should have attached strings to the deal, but they didn?t. Gotta wonder if Microsoft would still have bought Skype if they had to pay US taxes on the deal. [...]
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