@PacificIT community leader Robert Sanzalone and I have been chatting about Skype and its use as social software. Robert penned this blogworthy bit that started about a Skype client on the iPhone. Robert: As you saw me mention, I have literally been …

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Business Skype’s 2008Q4 contribution falls from Q3, but still profitable. (Jean Mercier) 20% off the Emerging Communications Conference with ’skypejournal’ discount code. See you at the SFO Marriott this week. UK’s O2 and Orange oppose Nokia+Sky…

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Meg Whitman, former eBay CEO, is running for California governor. Here’s MegWhitman.com.  "Meg 2010 - A New California" is the site tagline. Yet the language that follows is Reaganesquely nostalgic. "A New California, simply put…

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Online Eviction Jason Scott’s Protection From Online Eviction? and his follow up post make the argument that services like AOL, MySpace, flickr, or Skype should be treated like landlords. The power landlords have over tenants is overwhelming, unless …

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Dell wanted to know about "Keeping Productivity High For On The Go Workers" for their Digital Nomads site. Here’s my small contribution to the theme. Presence is a stream of signals you give off. You’ve seen simple availability presence sig…

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Recruiting people into a room from the web makes a Skype public chat useful. The pattern is: Web badge (on a web page) –> Skype.com redirect page  ––> Skype client As long as Skype is working on it, a few improvements come to mind…

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When I started using Skype more intensively about three years ago, I had been a heavy user of Microsoft’s MSN Messenger for several years. But about 18 months ago, I stopped logging into MSN Messenger; none of my contacts were there - or, if they were,…

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Borderless Communicator Hudson Barton has spent the last few years as the “keeper of the ‘real users’ statistic”, a measure of Skype usage that attempts to understand the demographics of Skype’s user base and put it into some sort of perspective so tha…

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If we go back to our early September interview with Josh Silverman where we discussed “The Way Ahead - Platforms and Partners”, Josh stated in response to our question about addressing ongoing partner communications issues:What I don’t want to do is o…

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I’d like to make two points. First, the Democratic party learned grassroots organizing on W’s watch. There’s an exponential curve moving: from nothing in the 2000 Gore/Bush election, through substantial roots activity in the 2004 Bush/Kerry …

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One-click call to Congress. Email corrections and your stories about your Skyping your elected officials to tips@skypejournal.com. Revised 30 September 2008. State District Home Page DC Phone District Phone …

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"I keep getting these women that sound like hookers trying to contact me through skype. They think I’m a guy. Yuck." - skinner tags: skype, hookers, spam, sex, gender, privacy, identityFollow Phil Wolff on Twitter or FriendFeed or on Skype…

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"el martes me voy a Grecia por los Beta Days de Skype, pero lo de Alitalia podria impedirlo… Y dejarme tirada en Roma. Interesante." (The Skype beta tester community convenes in the Mediterranean to meet each other and Skype’s new leader…

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"I’m signed in to Skype but it looks like everyone is offline. Makes me worried about some cataclysmic event I may have missed." — Rian A nod to collective presence?

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On the occasion of Skype’s fifth birthday, Skype Journal will publish a series on "What Skype Means To Me." You are invited to email your essay or short thoughts to editor@SkypeJournal.com. Wesley Fryer is an educator, a digital storyteller…

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On the occasion of Skype’s fifth birthday, Skype Journal will publish a series on "What Skype Means To Me." You are invited to email your essay or short thoughts to editor@SkypeJournal.com. Evgeny Gorbarsky is my counterpart at Skypeclub.ru…

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On the occasion of Skype’s fifth birthday, Skype Journal will publish a series on "What Skype Means To Me." You are invited to email your essay or short thoughts to editor@SkypeJournal.com. Dmitrii is a psychology student at a Bulgarian uni…

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I want to build on Jim Courtney’s post about Phweet on an airplane. Two social observations, a societal one, and a strategic one. But first, Air Skype, Skype Journal, April 2005. Skype on a transatlantic flight, with voice. Skyping to the Int…

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Having spent three days with Nokia personnel based in Finland, my need to make calls to Finland on my Skype Unlimited World subscription has just increased. And with all the technology development going on in Israel (for instance, iSkoot’s and…

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CalliFlower: iotum rebrands its Free Conference Call service with a focus on a rich user experience not only for conference call moderators but also  for participants. Value-add in the Web 2.0 world comes primarily through the user interface. There’s a…

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We reported earlier that Mike Bartlett, Skype for Windows Product Manager, would be the guest on Friday’s Squawk Box. With 15 fifteen participants, Mike answered questions ranging from features of the new Skype for Windows 4.0 Beta; plans and objectives…

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