This confirms the venue for tonights Skype Dinner is “Pacific Coast Brewing Company” See Directions and be there around 6:00pm. Will be fun. They apparently have WiFi online.
Need more info…. Skype me: Stuart Henshall” or Phil Wolff
My Skype buddy list is increasingly becoming more useful than anything I ever amassed on Yahoo, Aim or MSN. I still have many bloggers to go. What’s interesting is it reframes the context. This is my bloggiing community and I can talk to them and it is on my desktop….
I’m excited by what I’m seeing in the blogosphere as individuals are connecting up who have never talked before. In seconds in terms of time we are moving from Blogs as Clipper Ships where one exchanges letters and comments to the Jet Age where networking becomes even more important. It was a “writing world” and now it’s a “writing - talking” world. For the bloggers that have talked it is materially different.
Learning from kids leads to new thoughts on how to connect Skype profiles, without acting as a universal trust-broker, rather a facilitator for trusted exchanges.
Yahoo makes a fatal blunder in following Microsoft to lock out Trillian users. Yahoo is responding to its current competitive definitions rather that thinking forward strategically. Trillians error is just the type of strategy advice I was given yesterday.
More Skype users online, and emerging set of phrases and enabling the “ring from my blog” Skype function. Then some want to hook it up to their GSM mobiles and others will use if for broadcasting. More links…
Is Skype making early branding mistakes? Are they positioning themselves appropriately? Do the founders really “live the brand”. Do they know their target audience?For Skype to be really successful it must be more than technology or “disrupting” the old phone system. It’s about welcoming in tomorrow. We are in the age of P2P telephony. How people share in these riches will define the potency of the solution. A few brand challenges…..
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