More Skype Talk

September 22, 2003

in Accelerating Innovation, Brand Futures, Social Networks, Social Software

David follows up today with another detailed posting Skype P2P VoIP App: One in a Million?
“If they don’t screw it up with a confusing and overpriced subscription service, Skype could possibly become one of those extremely rare apps that comes along and truly changes communication and networking on the web.” David also puts a stick in the ground on pricing. I’m not sure I agree either in the global context or the method. What’s important right now is the appropriate business expectations are created. Skype may well have launched with more “noise” than expected.

What I do want from David is his method for signaling whether Skype is online or offline on my blog. Come on David share! They will want it on Ryze pages and on Ecademy.

In the early reviews some emerging features are being missed.

  • One-Click Calling: The idea that i finally have my phone book on my desktop and only have to mouse click to call is just great. It’s been buried before. Voice vs Chat centric reinvents this for me.
  • Share your contacts feature: In “Tools” – “Send Contacts” you can share connections on your buddy list just like in AIM. Come on bloggers we can connect up quicker. Finding addresses will be much simpler.
  • Languages. The latest update provided languages and reinforces the global nature of this product. I had to go back in an download again to update. Short-term it’s the international and long distance calls that you never could justify just making before.
  • Imagining what it’s like behind the Skype walls? What’s being monitored, number of hits on google. Broadband vs dial-up connections etc. Looking at the slowing toward the end of last week at people on line at 12:00pm suggested to me an increasing number of dial-ups. Yet today I think I saw 42500 online. That’s roughly double a week ago.
  • Biggest functional issue: Currently in IM I can’t click on a hot-link sent to me. I also seem to have some conflict with my other IM systems. Particularly Yahoo. Not sure if this is my system, firewall etc.

    Some new quotes follow: First asks how do I call my friend of my friend. Well that’s part of the profiling opportunity.

    Nowadays Skype becomes one of the most faschinating application over peer to peer communication instead of Kazaa. I love this application but I want one specific function. That is to find a friend of my friends. [Kokoro]

    It’s neat that Ecademy and Thomas Power groks it. They have already experimented there with RSS and blogging. Bet they will be the first social/business networking app to incorporate a link. May be the reason enough to activate my profile there.

    The product is amazing I have spoken with 2 Ecademy members already from the UK and Faroes, cost nothing. Kazaa are killing the music business. Will Skype kill the telco business? http://www.skype.com/ Thomas Power – Chairman… [Refer]

    I’d worry that I’ve become an advocate for Skype, yet there is support. So come on. Suspend your disbelief, try it and Skype me. It opens a new world for thinking strategic futures.

    This is a link that I would normally post over there in my sidebar in the Cookie Crumbs microblog, but considering I havent really heard any buzz about it at all lately, I wanted to post it in my main blog instead, just to get your attention. Check… [Refer]

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