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Video: Skype’s Own Professionally-Created Interview About Skype And Citrix
Continue Reading: Video: Skype’s Own Professionally-Created Interview About Skype And CitrixAt EnterpriseConnect last week in Orlando, I was walking down one of the hallways and encountered a rather elaborate setup for shooting video:Turns out that Skype was shooting their own video interview about the Skype / Citrix partnership which they have now posted on YouTube:
Obviously no comparison in quality to my own video interview which was shot with a handheld video camera 🙂 Nicely done, Skype…
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Google Voice Now Offers SIP Addresses For Calling Directly Over IP
Continue Reading: Google Voice Now Offers SIP Addresses For Calling Directly Over IPWouldn't it be great if you could call a Google Voice number directly via SIP? So that you could bypass the PSTN when calling a GV number and go directly over IP? With potentially all the advanced capabilities that could give? (wideband audio, video, etc.) It turns out that you now can! UPDATE – Nov 13, 2012: Over a series of subsequent posts about Google Voice and SIP, it first seemed like this service was working… then it stopped… then it started… and then it stopped for some people and still worked for others. As of November 2012 the service is not working for me.By way of a tweet from Aswath Rao (crediting @truvoip) today I learned that you could simply take your Google Voice number and append "@sip.voice.google.com" to get a perfectly working SIP URI that you could use with any SIP phone. I naturally tried it out with my own GV number using the SJphone SIP phone:
The call worked great. I answered it on one of my other phones and the conversation was fine – both audio streams intact, etc.
YATE?
What's interesting to me here is that SJphone reports that the remote client is YATE, a.k.a.…
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And So Dies The *Ad-Free* Skype Experience… (At Least, On Windows)
Continue Reading: And So Dies The *Ad-Free* Skype Experience… (At Least, On Windows)All good things must come to an end, it seems… after 7 years of providing an end-user client that has been blissfully free of any kind of advertising, Skype has announced the beginning of advertising in the Skype client.And for the very first time, this is one feature I am very glad is NOT yet available in the Mac client!
Here’s what they say it will look like (image from Skype’s blog):
Sure, in Skype’s blog post, they have a whole bullet list of “details” about this new program, and do note this:
The ads won’t interrupt your Skype experience. You won’t suddenly see annoying pop-up ads or flashy banner ads in middle of conversations.
But still… we’ve been ad-free for 7 years of Skype usage.
I do realize that Skype is trying to add a great number of people, do an IPO, pay for their funky new office, etc. And I get that they can’t necessarily pay for all that purely on the revenue from the small percentage of people who pay for actual services.
But still… we’ve been ad-free for 7 years of Skype usage.
And I do realize that the vast majority of users are getting…
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Video: The Skype / Citrix Partnership – Interview with Skype’s Andrew Sinclair
Continue Reading: Video: The Skype / Citrix Partnership – Interview with Skype’s Andrew SinclairWhat is the new partnership between Skype and Citrix all about? How secure will it be? What new capabilities will it offer? How much will it cost? Will it work on a Mac? Those are all questions I asked of Skype’s Andrew Sinclair last week and made available as part of my Emerging Tech Talk video blog on Voxeo’s site:I’ll have more to say on this partnership in another post, but for now enjoy the video.
P.S. And if you hang in to the very end, I added a little extra treat to the end of this video… 🙂
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Photo of Geeks: Watching the Apple iPad2 Launch – From EnterpriseConnect
Continue Reading: Photo of Geeks: Watching the Apple iPad2 Launch – From EnterpriseConnectAs you would know from watching my Twitter stream or the #enterprisecon hashtag on Twitter, this past week I was in Orlando, FL, speaking at the Enterprise Connect conference and trade show. Of course, that wasn’t the only event happening last week… there was this wee little gathering happening in San Francisco to talk about a new bright, shiny object… 🙂So on Wednesday at 1pm Eastern, the attention of many of us at Enterprise Connect was not entirely on the speakers or presentations, but rather also on watching sites like the Engadget Live Blog of the iPad2 event. Analyst/blogger Dave Michels happened upon three of us in the press room who were watching the news… and naturally he had to take a picture (and naturally we had to ham it up a little bit)…
In the picture is InsideCTI author Eugene Liu, myself (Dan York), and Ovum analyst Ian Jacobs:
Thanks, Dave, for taking the fun picture.
P.S. And yes, of course I have a Voxeo sticker on the back of my MacBook Pro… would you expect anything less from me?
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Live-tweeting Skype’s EnterpriseConnect Keynote in 45 minutes…
Continue Reading: Live-tweeting Skype’s EnterpriseConnect Keynote in 45 minutes…In about 45 minutes, Skype will be giving a keynote here at EnterpriseConnect in Orlando (1:30pm US Eastern) and will apparently be making a "big announcement" about Skype in the enterprise. They have been cagey about what the announcement is… but one contact I know well there says that I will "like it". 🙂We will see how accurate he is… I will naturally be tweeting out the keynote live at:
http://twitter.com/danyork
FYI, the conference will be live streaming the keynote out at:tv.enterpriseconnect.com
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Photo Tour – Many More Shots of Skype’s Funky New Office (From The Designers)
Continue Reading: Photo Tour – Many More Shots of Skype’s Funky New Office (From The Designers)Want to see more (and better) pictures of Skype’s new funky office in Palo Alto? After I first wrote about photos of the new Skype office back in December, the designers of Skype’s office space let me know that they would have some photos of their own coming as part of their new website. Those photos are now online at:http://designblitzsf.com/projects/skype-hq/
And yes, indeed, they do give a better view of the whole space, and some narrative text providing some context for the design, too. Very cool to see… as a network geek, I’m hoping that that map is live showing interactive Skype conversations 🙂
Many more cool shots over on the designers’ website…
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Great Guidelines From NIST on Deploying IPv6
Continue Reading: Great Guidelines From NIST on Deploying IPv6As I wrote about over on Voxeo’s “Speaking of Standards” blog, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) came out with a great set of guidelines around IPv6. Formally titled “Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6“, the document follows the tradition of many other NIST docs in being more than just guidelines. It’s also a great tutorial around IPv6.
You can download the doc at:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-119/sp800-119.pdf
UPDATE: Shortly after publishing this post, I was alerted that the URL does NOT work and I, too, have now been unable to retrieve the document from NIST’s website. I was able to view it just the other day, and my browser still has a copy in its cache (and I also have a local copy myself). The NIST news archive shows that as of Dec 28, 2010 this document was in fact live. Perhaps the NIST team pulled the doc to update it… I don’t know. Hopefully it will be available again soon, and if there is a new URL I will update this post.It’s only 188 pages long, including the appendices and will definitely help if you’re just now trying to come up to speed on IPv6.
Kudos…
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Skype 5.0 Easter Egg: Super Simple Way To Launch Conference Calls!
Continue Reading: Skype 5.0 Easter Egg: Super Simple Way To Launch Conference Calls!Wow! I might have just found a feature cool enough to get me to move over to Skype 5.0 for the Mac, despite my many concerns with it.
Hidden among the many IRC-style chat commands (but not included on that list) is this one that you can type into a group chat using either Skype 5.0 for Windows or Mac:
/golive
When you do that, everyone in the chat (using 5.0) gets a notification that there is a conference call and can choose to join into the conf call right then.
What’s even cooler is that the call can be either audio or video. Of course, video is only available if someone has a Group Video Calling subscription.
What’s even more cool is that the act of typing that command will generate a URL that you can simply pass along to anyone else to have them join a call. You’ll see the URL in your chat window. It takes the form (for me) of:
skype:danyork?call&token=1234
You can now send this URL to people via Skype IM… via other IM… via email… via Twitter… via Facebook…
Anyone who clicks on that link will…
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Free webinar Tues, Feb 15 – Deploying Apps: Cloud vs. Premise vs. Hybrid
Continue Reading: Free webinar Tues, Feb 15 – Deploying Apps: Cloud vs. Premise vs. HybridWith all the buzz around the “cloud” and “cloud communications”, what is the reality amidst the hype? That’s a topic I’ll be discussing in a Voxeo webinar on Tuesday, February 15th, called “Best Practices in Deploying Communication Applications: Cloud vs On-Premises vs Hybrid“. Given that Voxeo’s had literally hundreds of thousands of apps deployed in both our hosted cloud and also on customer premises, we’ve learned a thing a two that I’ll be sharing. I’ll talk about questions such as:
- What are the advantages of deploying voice and SMS applications into the cloud?
- What are the disadvantages?
- What are the security issues you need to be aware of?
- When is it more appropriate to deploy applications on your premises?
- What kind of hybrid architectures are now available and what are their pros and cons?
Tuesday, Feb 15, 2011
8:00 AM US Pacific, 11:00 AM US Eastern, 5:00 PM Central EuropeanIt should be a fun session… and we’ll have time at the end for Q&A.
If you can’t watch it live, the webinar will be archived for later viewing (and if you register, we’ll alert you when the archive is…
Disruptive Telephony
Dan York on how Voice over IP is rewriting (almost) everything you thought you understood about telephony…