Month: November 2012
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Skype 4.2.1 for iPad/iPhone Brings Microsoft Integration, Chat Interop, Better IM Features
Continue Reading: Skype 4.2.1 for iPad/iPhone Brings Microsoft Integration, Chat Interop, Better IM FeaturesSkype today brought its increased integration with Microsoft services to the iPhone and iPad with the new release 4.2.1 available in the iOS AppStore. As you can already do in the Windows, Mac and Android versions of Skype, the big feature is that you can now sign in with your “Microsoft account” and merge our Skype contacts with those from Windows Live Messenger (WLM) and Outlook.com. You will now be able to chat back and forth with your WLM contacts directly from within Skype.
This is very cool from the point-of-view that Skype has always been a “walled garden” of instant messaging (IM) that did not interoperate with any other service. Many of us long ago wound up having to use two IM clients on our system: 1) Skype; and 2) a multi-service client (like Adium or Pidgin) for all the other IM networks. This doesn’t quite solve that problem because it is now really just expanding the Skype client to work with two IM networks, but it is at least a step toward greater interop.
In a post on Skype’s “Garage” blog, Beom Soo Park indicates these new features:
- Sign in with your Microsoft Account to merge your Windows Live…
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The Fascinating Interest in Using Google Voice With SIP Addresses
Continue Reading: The Fascinating Interest in Using Google Voice With SIP AddressesWhy are so many people interested in using Google Voice with SIP? Is this a sign that people really want to use SIP-based services for VoIP? Is this all hobbyists or people looking to play around with Google Voice? Or is it people trying to solve real interconnection issues? What are people trying to do with Google Voice and SIP?All these questions came to my mind today when I dipped into Google Analytics and noticed that for the month to date in November 2012, my old (March 2011) post about Google Voice and SIP addresses continues to receive a large amount of traffic:
Slightly over 3,000 pageviews in the first 13 days of November – and if I go back a bit I see over 71,000 pageviews since January 1, 2012. In fact, it’s had about 232K pageviews since I wrote it over 1.5 years ago, and has accounted for almost 25% of all traffic to this site in that time.
And this particular article was just one in a series of articles I wound up writing about Google Voice and SIP as we all collectively tried to figure out what was going on.
Digging into the traffic sources…
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Oops – Post Published On Wrong Site
Continue Reading: Oops – Post Published On Wrong SiteOops… this post was published on the wrong site – please see the article over on my Disruptive Conversations site at:When Facebook Starts To Become More Useless – Irrelevant In-Feed Ads
Thank you!
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Sadly, The Big “C” Curtails My Participation Next Week At IETF 85
Continue Reading: Sadly, The Big “C” Curtails My Participation Next Week At IETF 85Sadly, the Big “C”, the current unwelcome guest in our family, has claimed another activity that I enjoy. Next week is the 85th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Some 1,200+ engineers will gather in Atlanta, Georgia, to discuss/debate/argue/evolve the open standards that make up the Internet. Things like TCP, HTTP, DNS, SIP, IPv6… all those protocols and their many, many offspring.For people who enjoy the process that creates these standards – and who enjoy the people that make up the IETF – these three-times-yearly face-to-face meetings are amazing places to be. One of the many aspects I enjoy of my work with the Internet Society is that I get to go to the IETF meetings and be part of all that is going on.
Unfortunately, I won’t be in Atlanta.
As I’ve mentioned in the past and written about publicly, my wife is in the second year of treatment for breast cancer. Every three weeks she goes in for an infusion of a drug called Herceptin, which is an antibody that goes after the HER2 protein. She has the treatment on a Monday and then is usually extremely fatigued for the next few days. Generally by…