Tag: skype

SkypeFind

SkypeFind is one of the most interesting features that we’ve done in quite a while now. We call it “Local businesses you like”, and that’s what it is – a collection of businesses, with reviews and comments, built by everyone using Skype.

searching for user-generated business listings. they missed the opportunity to add the user’s current location.

Opening up Skype

The hack adds a button into Skype that adds TalQer VOIP functionality. Highlight a Skype contact, then click the button to call him or her via the TalkQer Voip service. TalQer has a couple of nice features that Skype doesn’t offer, particularly a free inbound phone number and voicemail. But it’s unclear if that’s going to be enough to convince large numbers of Skype users to add this additional bit of software.

the first parasites in the skype ecosystem

Unyte

Co-browsing is the ability to share a web browser with a remote user, and be able to have that user both see what you’re doing and to drive your web browser so you can see what they’re doing. Obviously you only want to do this with someone you trust, but the implications for distance students are great. Most of the virtual reference packages have this capability, but from what I understand they work to varying degrees of success. Right about this time last year I started fiddling with a service called Jybe, and it worked fairly well, though required a toolbar to be installed by both users, and they haven’t updated that toolbar for Firefox 1.5, so I haven’t played with it in a while.

desktop sharing as a skype plugin sounds great for tech supporting relatives, but they implement the viewer as an applet. how stupid is that? they could piggyback on the nice fw-evading skype network, but no, applets.