Posts Tagged ‘skype’
Skype going offline?
Did you know the founders of Skype are suing eBay for copyright infringement, a move that could block eBay’s deal to sell a majority stake in Skype to a group of private investors for $1.9 billion.
Skype – was purchased by eBay in 2005 for $2.6 Billion dollars – however eBay failed to aquire Joltid or the technology which runs Skype’s “global index.” eBay purchased Skype back in 2005 for $2.6 billion, but failed to acquire Joltid, the company supplying the core technology behind Skype called “global index”, the peer-to-peer technology Skype uses to route calls around the internet. Skype’s technology roots are in Kazaa which was co-founded by Niklas Zennstrom – (as was Joltid). Joltid licensed the technology to eBay until this past March.
What will happen is anyones guess – however if your planning on having Skype long-term the Hostmedic suggests having an alternative ready in case it is needed.
Perhaps it is time Skype users begin looking at the new US Startup Oovoo – as well as investors…
TwitterSkypebook ? yes Virginia its possible
Ok – so with this new world where everyone is a member of Facebook – uses Skype and Twitter – I got to thinking how difficult it is to update all the systems together…
After some google searching i discovered a little secret no one seems to know about. There is a Skype robot which will post to your Twitter account.Here are the simple instructions:
1. Add twitter4skype as a contact.
2. Type the following as a single chat message to twitter4skype:
/account (shift+return)
yourtwitteraccountname (shift+return)
yourtwitteraccountpassword (shift+return)
3. The system should return: twitter4skype Registration complete!
4. The next time you write a chat message to twitter4skype, the entry will appear on your account and you’ll receive your friends’ twitters in Skype.
Then – adding TwitterSync to your facebook application makes everything come together…
One last note – if you blog like me – you can add the twitter update to your blog and voila – a nice little update
Give it a try and let me know what you think about having your world come together …
hmmm – this planet is getting smaller and smaller and smaller
