Try SKYPE out. When I’ve made a few more calls I’ll report. If you are thinking about the future of IM, social networks, progressive disclosure, disruptive innovation and thought the founders of Kazaa were smart. This will probably confirm it. Read their Skype discription here. Provides some interesting strategy insights. Wish it would work with my Mac based friends.
Evan caught this: Skype. P2P telephony. From the Dutch developers of FastTrack (the system that powers KaZaA). In my opinion, this is the first true legitimate application of P2P technology. Next step: a pro version with call waiting, voicemail, etc. I am going to try it out to see if it does provide the quality level claimed. If you are on, let me know so we can try it out. Also, I wish they had skins for this so it won’t look bad on my desktop (nobody needs an ugly ICQ-like system on their desktop). [John Robb's Weblog]
Skype VoIP added
After Stuart Henshall wrote about Skype in the last few days, I decided to try it out. So today I got myself a headset for the pc, and had the Skype software installed. Haven’t made any calls yet, but I…