Yahoo Won, eBay/Skype Nothing

When the Skype Journal gives Yahoo the clear cut victory in who is working with Developers in a better way, the world needs to know. This is about culture. eBay is a bank that’s preteneding to be a cool online merchant. At the end of the day, eBay takes money from one person or company … Read more

SightSpeed on MTV’s Total Request Live

Seems the folks at MTV, who really know video and could be accused of putting the V into Video too, have been using SightSpeed on the Video Wall used in Total Request Live to get viewers to be a part of the show. TRL is one of MTV’s top rated properties so this is hot, … Read more

Ken Camp’s New Home

Ken Camp has moved his blog slightly with a new domain name and an updated direction. Over time Ken has morphed his Enterprise VoIP focused blog into both deeper and broader VoIP related efforts, and expanded to artfully and insightfully cover the emerging RealTime Comunications sector on a Unified manner. So his blog now sits … Read more

Skype Developer’s Program Sucking Wind?

Katie at GigaOm breaks a story that has been bubbling since before the Las Vegas Skype DevCon I attended earlier in the summer. Having spoken to developers along the way he’s dead on the mark as some have talked about delays in getting answers to basic questions and a non–responsive approach to hard issues regarding … Read more

Brother..I Know The Feeling

Rich tells us how he’s been on the go non-stop. I know the feeling..and with big news coming next week from SightSpeed as well as the rest of what’s going on in my world, I can really relate.

Skypes Numbers Not Moving eBay’s

Om does his usual laser like surgery on the news, or lack of news, around Skype that came out at the earnings call yesterday. Read towards the end and you’ll see that he digs into the softball like questions asked by sell side analysts. First, I wondered if the call was available via the Skype … Read more

More Than Skype’s Code Is Cracked

When I first heard on Thursday from Charlie Paglee that the Skype code had been cracked it was an early morning of a busy day so I knew that one of the other bloggers likely would cover this in detail, and explain the implications the way pal Alec Saunders did. But I never would have … Read more

Get Talkety?

First there was Mint Telecom that allows calls to be made from one number to a designaed number for less by moving the call from your cell phone over to a VOIP network then dumping the call back to the PSTN. Then PhoneGnome’s David Beckemeyer created MobileGnome which lets you set up a call from … Read more

PolyCom Adds VoIP Mini SpeakerPhone

Via a licensing agreement with Skype, Polycom has come up with an integrated PDA size speakerphone that includes Skype calling functionality, according to the press announcement.   Convenient call function buttons — With deep integration to the Skype application, the Polycom Communicator features conveni buttons enabling users to easily launch Skype on their computer and … Read more

The Streamcast vs. Skype Et Al Complaint

I have just finished reading what is likely the 30+ page Streamcast Networks complaint against Skype et al that found its way to me. It reads as much like a Hollywood film treatment that needs to star Paul Newman as the attorney ala his roles in "The Verdict" or "Absence of Malice." I say likely … Read more