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Skype 4.0 beta - STILL No Multi-Party Video
Blog Comment Also Skype's customer support or the lack thereof makes it very frustrating to subscribe to their paid service like what I've experienced last year and made me looked somewhere else and found Onesuite (for my regular long distance calls) Yahoo...
[July 9, 2008, 9:32]
Skype Roundup - Heart Warming, Heart Breaking
Blog Skype's Director of Windows Product Management, Michael Bartlett, submitted a heart-warming story about his girlfriend's family having a video chat between England and Australia. They all wanted desperately to video chat with each other, and they...
[September 11, 2008, 8:03]
CamCamX
Downloads Now you can video chat on Skype and Yahoo Messenger at the same time you use Photo Booth, DotMatrix or Comic Life. Compatible with virtually every QuickTime compatible camera application tested, including QuickTime Pro, Photo Booth, Quartz Composer...
[February 10, 2009, 6:36]
New IM Application "Nimbuzz"
Blog I would really like to find a client that would allow me to chat with the few Skype contacts I have left, without having to load the buggy Skype program itself. So I downloaded and installed the PC version.and discovered that Skype wasn't in the...
[May 14, 2008, 15:10]
SightSpeed Acquired By Logitech
Blog Comment People have a strong tendency to use what they are able to get easily, and get working easily, which was one of the big advantages Skype had in the early days, when they were more or less "the only game in town", and text IM and audio chat worked...
[October 30, 2008, 7:44]
Moving on - SightSpeed
Blog In response to my first blog post, and probably to my comment on the article about the Skype "High Quality Video", I received an invitation to try SightSpeed. I particularly liked the "Fish Tank" as a simple audio/video connection test, as a nice...
[November 19, 2007, 14:25]
TokBox Releases Desktop Client
Blog At the moment TokBox doesn't stand up to well to the competition overall, they come up short in support for different webcams (they are by definition limited to cameras supported by Flash), PSTN/POTS dial in/out, text chat (they have it, but it is...
[July 15, 2008, 15:01]
Skype 4.0 beta - STILL No Multi-Party Video
Blog Skype has announced their 4.0 beta release, with the typical amount of hype and intentionally misleading propaganda (see below for details). This is actually a good thing for the users anyway, as both of these companies have something even more...
[June 18, 2008, 9:27]
ooVoo Releases Version 2.2, with Business Features
Blog The business plan includes up to 6-way video conferencing (Skype is still blundering along with only one-to-one video and mumbling about multi-party video being developed), and removes all advertisements from the display of all participants in a...
[July 28, 2009, 7:50]
Great New ooVoo Release!
Blog It sure beats the heck out of the Skype silliness with High Quality Video being restricted to three "anointed" Logitech webcams, and even if you have one of those you have to pray that Skype's mysterious HQ Video routine will not deem your...
[July 28, 2008, 14:39]
Why Can't Skype Get "Presence" Right?
Blog I've had Skype running on some of the Linux test installations for the past couple of weeks. I only have about a half-dozen Skype contacts left (and I'm trying my best to get them to switch to a better program), but I still get a steady stream of...
[July 22, 2008, 9:40]
Skype gets into video
Talkback Yes, it is a good move for Skype to allow video chat also. I use skype alot just for my personal use, and have gain many friends from all over the world from it. Now the important part is to improve on the quality of the pictures being broadcast.
[December 2, 2005, 12:39]
Hand Wringing Over the Dell/SightSpeed Video Chat Deal
Blog There's certainly no shortage of hand-wringing going on by the Skype Cheerleaders over at the supposedly "Independent" Skype Journal over the recent Dell Video Chat powered by SightSpeed deal. In my experience, SightSpeed is easier to install than...
[July 8, 2008, 17:49]
VoIP wars begin as BT trades shots with Skype
Talkback Yes, MSN offers a chat and video function, but I used to use it and moved to SkyPe, and frankly, there's no comparison. Skype focused on the one thing that really counts - sound quality - and it's head and shoulders above anything else I've used.
[December 22, 2004, 13:41]
FunWebcam
Downloads Compatible, supportive to all video chat tools like MSN, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ , AIM, SKYPE, Paltalk, Camfrog, ICUII etc. Add animations and photo frames to your favorite video chatting program such as MSN, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ ,AIM, Skype, Paltalk...
[March 31, 2007, 7:00]
DotMatrix
Downloads Add a paid license and use the output of DotMatrix as your camera input for Skype, Yahoo Messenger, and PhotoBooth. It's like having video chat in 1977. If Photoshop and PhotoBooth were sampled and remixed by the spirit of Bob Moog, the result...
[November 5, 2008, 3:53]
IM+ Push for Twitter, Skype, Facebook, MSN...
Downloads Twitter, Skype Chat, Facebook, Google Talk and Yahoo and MSN and AOL and ICQ and MySpace and Jabber and Geo-location and send Photo, Voice and Location The widest support of IM networks including Twitter and Skype chat
[September 2, 2009, 17:32]
So what has the new Skype CEO done since he joined Skype.
Blog It would seem that Skype getting into bed with Logitech have bitten off more than it can chew and are to frightened to admit it therefore I think for business and video calling Skype is on the decline but for normal IM and Skype to Skype chat all...
[April 15, 2008, 11:22]
SightSpeed Light Available on hi5 Social Network
Blog This certainly makes Skype look silly, still blundering around producing mega-bloated releases which try to take over your entire desktop only to provide you with one-to-one video.jw 23/6/2008 This is the direction that I think video/audio/text...
[June 23, 2008, 11:26]
Skype Roundup: Skype Dumps on Taiwan Customers
Blog The Boston Globe reported on the state of videoconferencing technology today, and said that "Sightspeed and ooVoo have the highest quality video and most features", while Skype "is the most cumbersome to install and use".They also had good things...
[August 25, 2008, 16:03]
