11 month ago
Linkorama : The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Skypetards - "Ross Mayfield said the deal made sense because "markets are conversations," according to the Cluetrain Manifesto which as we all know is always correct, because it is, you see, a manifesto."
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11 month ago
Linkorama : Management Shake Up At Skype - A big management change at Skype has occurred with Niklas Zennstrom resigning as CEO and Henry Gomez returning to eBay.
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13 month ago
nelson : Skype outage cause - Windows update causes reboots causes Skype overload
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13 month ago
deusx : What happened on August 16 - Skype Blogs - "The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update."
Simon Willison : Skype: What happened on August 16 - Skype: What happened on August 16. Windows Update caused a massive global reboot, which destabilised Skype’s peer to peer network due to the flood of log-in requests.
Eric Meyer : What happened on August 16 - Wait, doesn't that make Microsoft liable for the launching of a DDoS attack?
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16 month ago
Linkorama : Vacation complete, e-mail dead - Using Skype as a vacation inbox. I suppose the constraint to one-on-one in erstwhile multi-party chat could make this effective. That, or you work at Skype.
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Linkorama : Getting It Right - "This is the best time in our history," says Sten Tamkivi, Skype's Estonian head of operations.
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24 month ago
cameron : More universities banning Skype - San Jose State recently canned Skype usage for the reason that the EULA is too broad, allowing Skype to claim usage of the network, and that it's too much of a bandwidth hog. I thought it was the other way around?
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28 month ago
Linkorama : Skype as Future of Connectivity - from the edge: Skype, not "Internet 2" represents the future of connectivity.
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28 month ago
Linkorama : Free SkypeOut - Free calls to all landlines and mobile phones within the US and Canada - Skype Blogs
Rod Begbie : Free calls to all landlines and mobile phones within the US and Canada - Skype Blogs - US Skype users can now use it to phone anywhere in the US or Canada. This is going to be painful for the mobile companies -- I'm sure a large part of their money comes from people using the "free" longdistance that your minutes bring. #
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29 month ago
Linkorama : Skype Shops - It means people could, in theory, build and run shops - from home - to sell music, video, and future large media files
deusx : skype allows two (30 April 2006, Interconnected) - "Why is this important? It means people could, in theory, build and run shops - from home - to sell music, video, and future large media files."
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Rod Begbie : Silver Needle in the Skype - Reverse-engineering the heavily obfuscated Skype binary and protocol. [via] #
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31 month ago
Linkorama : Werblog: Games as the Real Social Software - But I'm also playing because I believe MMOGs will be one of the primary forms of social software for the next decade. Defined broadly, they may become the dominant form of social software. And you can't understand games without experiencing them first-han
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31 month ago
Linkorama : Skype and Google Fund Wifi Startup - $21.7 million from Index Ventures, Google, Skype, and Sequoia Capital. Danny Rimer (Index Ventures), Mike Volpi (Cisco) and Niklas Zennström (Skype)
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32 month ago
Linkorama : Say Tello For Presence - Great team. Quoth the Om: My initial reaction to the service is that it might suffer from feature creep, and will be tough for actual users to adopt. And who really knows how well it will scale.
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32 month ago
Linkorama : Letter from Tallinn - Where other countries queue, Estonia clicks.
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33 month ago
Linkorama : Leave Coldplay a Voicemail - "You're so gay you listen to Coldplay" -- 40 year old virgin
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Linkorama : Hot Technology for Chilly Streets in Estonia - "The other draw," he said, "is that if you want to work for a company that influences the lives of tens of millions of people, and you want to do it in Tallinn, there really isn't any other choice."
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35 month ago
Linkorama : Skype Groups - Skype Groups is a tool that enables business and families to manage multiple Skype accounts.
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35 month ago
Linkorama : Teen 2.0 - The best session. I've been mulling over how to bring this kind of user group to unfunded startups
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36 month ago
Linkorama : Skype Groupware Solution - Simple enough at present scale and location
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36 month ago
Linkorama : RIAA-biased Skype Story - Crappy article in the Mercury news tainting Skype as a music industry criminal
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36 month ago
Linkorama : Skype to eBay for $5b - Skype plays down talk of imminent takeover
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