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photo by Joi
A founding member of Skype, Toivo Annus, (orange shirt above) has a new startup developing video calling applications and user interfaces for flat-screen TV-s. In other words, Toivo is going to bring video conferencing and VoIP to your next LCD TV. I found this nugget over at Jan’s blog.
Investment group Ambient Sound Investments’ (ASI) project is named InkSpin1 which includes creating Skype user interface for LCD TV sets. So that the video calls can be hold on large TV screen.
type (toivo) in skype chat
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I just noticed over on Jerry Ong’s blog that Ping.FM has updated their service to support friendster, Yahoo 360, Delicious. Great to see more social networks added.
I’m still hoping for Skype status updates.
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I’ve just heard from Ashod at MeBeam that he’s released personal MeBeam server. According to Ashod this is “full backend mebeam is now running on - single exe, no installs, 760k file.”
MeBeam is opening its network to the public, with a vast array of back end services, including dedicated servers, private networks, and co-location services.
Some of our more exotic services will include, flash to SIP telephony, 3G video gateways, Web to Polycom transcoding, and of course, high end video conferencing.
This is a bold and smart move. I’m excited to see how this performs on an intranet. Attention universities, law enforcement, medical technologists, this is one the most promising multipoint video conferencing platforms I have seen. Windows only for now.
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I’ve just installed the Skype Online Status plugin for WordPress. After looking at and trying out others I think this is the best so far.
Lots of options, well done.
Define all your default Skype Status settings here. Start simply by setting the basics like Skype ID, Full Name and the button Theme you want to show on your blog. Then activate the Skype Status Widget on your Widgets page or use the Skype Status quicktag button Skype Online Status in the WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE) to place the Skype Online Status button in any post or page. Later on, you can fine-tune everything until it fits just perfectly on you pages.
Grab Skype Online Status here.
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