I received a press release in my email overnight from Stuart Jacobson at Santa Cruz Networks announcing vSkype, what looks to be a very cool tool for holding video conference calls via Skype. detailed post last night by Bill Campbell: Today Santa Cruz Networks ships the beta release of vSkype, the first multiuser video conferencing extension to Skype for Microsoft Windows. So begins the Skype Video War. What a cool arms race. There are three groups in the race. The IM people upgrading audio and video (AOL, MSN and Yahoo!), the Skype third party developers, and Skype itself. Two weeks ago the story was Spontania's Video4Skype release. Now Santa Cruz Networks realeases vSkype. This means the 40 million Skype users have these features, and Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo don't. CEO Stuart Jacobson says, "vSkype adds two cool new experiences to a Skype user: multi-user video and desktop sharing." It's interesting to see what this will do in this competitive space. Bill mentions the three groups in the race. I'm thinking in particular about the instant messaging vendors. Quite a bit of speculation in the past week that Yahoo bought DialPad. But, I'd say this is a hot business area to keep watching. Bill's post has screen shots and detailed commentary and analysis of his testing results so far in using vSkype. The post also has Q&As with the CEO and CTO of Santa Cruz Networks. Nice one, Bill! I haven't tried vSkype yet, but would like to. Anyone fancy being a testing partner? All you need is a Windows PC, the software (latest version of Skype for Windows. On Stuart's email press release, I'd normally just FireANT was released last week. According to the show #12 of screencast on the Santa Cruz Networks vSkype NevilleHobson.com blog which focuses on business communication and technology.
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