In my AWSJ/WSJ.com column on Skype a few weeks back (subscription only; sorry) I talked about how Skype might change the way we communicate online — in part by introducing lots of interesting new business models. Well, it seems to have started. German website Someonenew.com has today announced it has launched a dating website using … Read more
Skype is working on a video function which I’m told by beta testers is very good. Skype say it will out later this year. But one company called Dialcom can’t wait, and has already released a plug in called Spontania video4skype: Dialcom’s Spontania video plug-in is designed to be integrated with any 3rd party Internet-based … Read more
Either I’m even less popular than I thought, or I don’t seem to be getting my Skype voicemail. I know it’s beta, but what do you do when people say they’ve left a message and there’s no record of it?
I don’t like working in the office. I’m there now, trying to do a column, and all I get is lots of people yelling on the phone, in their cubicles, in my cubicle. I can’t believe that once I used to write stories in an open-plan newsroom. I suppose it’s a skill worth working on, … Read more
Want to save a few bucks and convert an old wireless phone into a Skype phone? Check out Jarnaker.com: By having the phone off hook I carefully inserted my little screwdriver here and there until a heard a click in the handset. And when I found that click I injected a signal from my MP3 … Read more