As Skype moves away from it's pure telephony roots, is it not just becoming
another IM client? What would you see as the pros and cons of Skype vs MSN,
Yahoo, AOL Messengers et al? Has anyone done a review of the available
features?
Owen
Owen Stephens
E-Strategy Co-ordinator
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham
Surrey
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Kelly [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 13 July 2005 09:08
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Video for Skype (was RE: SMS (was RE: Have you
> considered Podcasting?))
>
> At IWMW 3005 last week we made use of the Skype VoIP
> application and Podcasting (and Adrian ran a very popular
> workshop on SMS).
>
> This week's technology, though, is Skype video. The Skype
> addon software can be downloaded (for free) from:
>
> http://www.video4im.com/
>
> Adrian and myself have just tried this - and it works well.
>
> Lot's of interesting potential (accessibility, widening
> participation, admin support, ...)
>
> Brian
>
> PS There are, of course, many other applications which have
> similar functionality and there are some criticisms of Skype
> (e.g. poor Mac support)
> - but it has the advantage of being simple to set up and use.
>
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