Video land is heating up

Things are getting exciting in videoland. We've recently seen the release of a few video add-ons. None of them are officially endorsed or certified by Skype, but this doesn't mean you can't play around with them.

As Bill from Skype Journal puts it:

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.

While I'd be wary to call it a war since no one gets killed, the times are surely interesting. Speaking of Bill, he and a group of other Skype friends did an [excellent review of one of the plug-ins as well as an interview with some of the folks behind it](http://www.skypejournal.com/blog/archives/2005/06/vskype_video_co_1.php).

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Hey Jaanus!

Thanks for this. Very nice of you.

Interesting side point about Microwave ovens. Barry Spencer, who is the CTO of Santa Cruz Networks, the developers of vSkype, well his grandfather Peter Spencer invented the microwave. Maybe in the next few months we will learn if what they taught us about genetics in school has any basis!

Regards, Bill

Hey Jaanus!

It is sort of like paint wars you Skype guys play. No one dies but someone wins. The first casulity in the Video War is Vidpe. The first player "bit the dust" according to Ben their marketing manager. "Off to a new business model", he says.

The game is real. The stakes are high. You Skype guys hold a lot of good cards. The game has just begun.

Regards, Bill

what is a vskype?? Have a nice day!

Bill,

It was actually Percy Spencer who invented the microwave

for det første kan jeg ikke engelsk..

og for det andet, så spiser jeg også sandwich..

ps. mere og mere..

Video land is heating up

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