Lukas Mathis says the new Skype for Mac is too complicated for casual users and not flexible enough for advanced users. His head is blogging what his heart knows: revulsion and alienation over the experience. Skype?s Mac forum has been full of kvetching, frustration and despair. Alexia Tsotsis? TechCrunch thread concurs, after Alexia threw [...]
The last and first quarters of the year show seasonal growth spurts in the number of people signed in to Skype. Just marking when the number of concurrent users crosses a new high-water mark, like it did at 30 million users yesterday, you can see the growth slow as Spring comes to [...]
Hudson Barton invites you to join the Skype for Mac chat (Skype required) on behalf of his Aaytch software development firm. ?We decided to concentrate on support for Mac Skype. The new channel, which is a Skype group chat, will be completely about Skype for Mac, and mostly about the new version 5.x.? This [...]
The rumor mill: We should expect voice control technologies in iOS 5. More generally, should I be able to control Skype through speech? ?Skype, call Rango.? ?Skype, answer the call.? ?Skype, call Paul at noon.? ?Skype, text to George Let?s talk this afternoon.? ?Skype, who is near me?? Hands-free is not just safe for [...]
More ISPs now charge fortunes for blowing your bandwidth cap. Netflix.ca now lets you choose a lower quality video stream for one-third the bandwidth consumption. While Skype automatically adjusts your quality to fit available CPU, bandwidth, and connectivity, would it make sense to offer a bandwidth-conserving user preference for lower resolution video?
We have a new high: 30 million people logged into Skype at the same time. I?d guess this puts the number of active Skype users about 180 million, since most people turn off Skype at night and don?t log in every day. Dialtone is one measure of the size and capacity of [...]
Swaraj Sarkar asked me: Which of the following factors are responsible for Skype’s Success? Constant improvement of Product quality. Regularly updating the product mix. Product promotion through various forms of media. Customer support Advent of Social Networking Growth through word of mouth Not using the concept of trial version If [...]
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My hopes were raised when I heard you can tweet within Skype by using the mouse menu on a contact or an IM message. It turns out Tweetie was using a MacOS feature to offer its services inside other applications. So you can tweet from inside browsers, IRC apps, email, etc. I [...]
I posted 8 Skype hacks for decentralized Agile teams earlier this week. Assembla provides tools for programmers and posted about their mostly positive experiences with distributed pair programming. They tweaked the experience to avoid synchronous (live) work, supporting different time zones.