I’ve been a Skype user since 2004 when I first fell in love with the service. I used it a fair amount in college as a way to study for tests and work on programming projects with other classmates without having to sit in a library for hours. It was convenient to each [...]
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Wengo Preview
Daniel Glazman hooked me up a few days ago with a preview of the OpenWengo extension for Firefox he’s been working on. It didn’t work with a build of mine (likely my fault), but did of course work with Firefox 1.5.0.1 which I tested with. I’m on very limited bandwidth here, and voice [...]
Nokia 770
After seeing Doug’s post on the new Nokia 770, I totally want one. $350 is a little steep for 3hr battery life, though still extremely cool. Being Mozilla based makes it even cooler.
Checking out Maemo Planet shows some really interesting stuff is going on in the Maemo Platform. There’s already [...]
Ebay Buys Skype
Please oh please don’t ruin it like you did PayPals. Well, the news is out, eBay is going to buy Skype. For some reason, I have this belief that eBay will either stop letting it continue development (like PayPals seems somewhat frozen in time), or just start crippling it so people use the [...]
Baby Bell’s Nightmare: Google
According to Google:
Google believes that users should have a choice in what applications they use for communication. Built to support industry standards, Google Talk enables Google users to connect to the Google Talk service and exchange IMs using any client that does the same, including Trillian, Adium, iChat, GAIM, and Psi.
The company is also committed [...]
SIP/VoIP
I’ve been a big fan of Skype for some time now. I’ve raved about it ever since I tried it for the first time. It’s simple, fast, reliable, low bandwidth, and the audio quality is great.
Glazou today recommend SIPphone (in particular PhoneGaim). He mentioned this a while back about SIP. [...]
Apple a Phone Service
Business Week’s Alex Salkever has an interesting article about Apple creating it’s own Skype like system. I’ve talked briefly about Skype before. I’m a huge fan. It’s a solid product. But Apple should take it to the next level. Allow me explain:
Ideally, for anything to become a good communication standard, [...]
Skype is pretty good
I rarely do software reviews, but thought I’d quickly give a mention to Skype.
Skype is not VoIP, but allows you to voice chat with other users. For free. But it’s better than it’s competitors.
AIM has “talk” but it doesn’t work behind any firewalls. Quality isn’t great. Yahoo works behind [...]
