Tag Archives: skype

The battle between industry and ideology

Renoud Netjes | 12 September 2011, 7:35 am | 3 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Just a quick word on something that might sound obvious to all of us, yet is a topic that in my opinion is applicable on most new media discourses. The struggle between ideology and the ‘real world’.

NEXT! Chatroulette: a shuffle through genital exposure and musicality

ibtisam omer | 03 October 2010, 11:14 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Presenting! an online  webcam chat room with functions similar to that of Skype or any other audio-video-chat spaces, yet the difference here lays in the simplicity of Chatroulette. The creator; a seventeen year old  Russian teenager named; Andrey Ternovskiy briefly explained in an interview with the NY Times that his ambitions were simply to establish another…

Paranoid of the Proprietary: To Skype or Not to Skype

John Haltiwanger | 29 October 2009, 11:36 pm | tags: , , ,

Today at the eComm conference, Sten Tamkivi presented an informative range of statistics of Skype use. Some 8% of all telecom “minutes” are routed by Skype as of last year. This is a huge portion of the total for any one telecom to be responsible for, especially as Skype is not technically a telecom. Sten mentioned the amount of…

Skype spam

Laura van der Vlies | 09 December 2007, 4:13 pm | 4 comments | tags: ,

Skype is no longer spam free. This afternoon I was asked to add a new person to my Skype. The message it sends is the following:

Dear Sir/Madam:
first of all, thank you very much for your attention!
We are one of the leading international-trade wholesalers in China, mainly dealing with digital cameras,PSP,LCD TV,Laptops
Notebooks,Digital Video,Mp4,GPS,and…

Skype-to-skype by mobile phone.

Minke Kampman | 29 October 2007, 5:06 pm | tags: , ,

Skypephone A nice addition to previous posts on this blog by Laura en Daphne on ’skype alternatives’, here a pro-skype announcement. Today, mobile phone company 3 unveiled its Skypephone, which supports free calls over the internet with the use of Skype. In this post a summary of some pros and cons from the web.

Skype alternatives

Laura van der Vlies | 13 October 2007, 9:39 pm | 12 comments | tags: , ,

One of the great things about web 2.0 is making free phone calls to friends all over the world. Just turn on one of the programs that offer this service, make sure your friend is online too, and make the call. But what program is best to use?