Archive for February, 2007

How successful is Skype? Lot’s of room for new VoIP services and Telco 3.0

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Got an interesting link on the mail today about some facts about Skype, Skype Journal posted some facts the other day

These number reveal that at most 2 percent of the Skype software downloads reflect users online, and that downloads reflect almost a 3x download of Skype per user. No account for the users that have multiple devices, like one for the Office, one at Home etc (and when did I want more numbers? This seems very Telco 1.0, I want fewer more intelligent numbers instead!)

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Apple store does not sell

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

I got this in the mail from Jeff Pulver (the VoIP guru):


See Jeff’s blog to read more about it.

Haven’t we all been in this situation at one time or another, it’s a wonder some shops actually do sell something, and I have actually been in the exact same situation in the Apple store in San Francisco (next time I will be sure to use my mobile’s video recording facility), I think it took over 10 minutes to find somebody that would actually sell me something.

One million penguins

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

Did find an interesting thing today, a few people at DMU (De Montfort University in the UK), has started a project to write a Novel collaboratively on the Internet using a Wiki (just as Wikipedia, in fact it is using the same Wiki software).

So check it out, and if you ever had thoughts about writing this might a good first go at it:

http://www.amillionpenguins.com/