17 Challenges In Presidential Tech Volunteer Programs
April 24th, 2012
The Obama 2012 campaign’s tech field office faces time, technology and organizing challenges as it rallies the software world to its cause.

The Obama 2012 campaign’s tech field office faces time, technology and organizing challenges as it rallies the software world to its cause.

Skype is distributing Bing toolbars and accepting Bing Rewards credits, first steps in Skype fitting in at Microsoft. Really cool integration needs a cloud Skype platform.

Skype remains too restrictive for developers. Here are nine ways Skype could promote innovation, trust, investment, and excitement in its platforms.

JP Rangaswami sounds off on the end of central control. I explain, using Skype vs Telcos and Skype vs. ecosystem, why the war for personal power is far from over.

People go elsewhere to find Skype friends. Why doesn’t Skype help them find the right people to talk with?

Skype’s birthday reminders show birth year, personally identifiable information useful in identity theft. Three things Skype can do to fix this.

Skype’s dial tone set a new record, jumping 20% in 60 days, with 37.5 million people logged in concurrently at 11:00AM Pacific today, at a pace more than twice as fast as last year.

36 million people were signed into Skype on Sunday, 11 March 2012, a new record. Four possible explanations include Latin American adoption, faster software release cycles, better UX, and mobile apps.

As of 30 Sep 2011, QQ had 711.7 million active IM user accounts, 145.4 million peak simultaneous users signed in. 3.5 times as many people and four times more connected than Skype.