Comments on: Skype – Free Internet Telephony That Just Works

By: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » Plazes - Location Awareness Meets Social Software at Your Service

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:58:05 +0000

[...] At the same time that it puts together that location awareness option it has got a lovely integration with already existing tools like Skype, Flickr, Google Maps and Multimap. So as you can see there are multiple layers you can use in order to stay connected with other folks. [...]

By: Luis Suarez

Luis Suarez — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:40:57 +0000

Hi Bob, well, if you live in the US now you actually have got a couple of good choices. Obviously, for e-mail you can always make use of GMail, or Yahoo! Mail. Whatever is easier for you. And if you can install it for your free of charge calls you can make use of Skype which offers free calls to landlines in the US and Canada. So you may want to give it a try, as long as you would be able to install it at that particular computer. Good luck !

By: bob gr

bob gr — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:54:40 +0000

I am in USA – new to internet – how much
and how do I get free anything ;mail or phone etc
- I use a free computer at the library-thank
you- if you can please give me some information .

By: elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:36:11 +0000

Reality Check: Jajah…

In the past I have mentioned how I always wanted to talk about one of my favourite VoIP offerings currently available out there and which has made things a lot easier specially when I am on the road or away……

By: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog » Blog Archive » Have You Found Your Plazer Yet?

E L S U A ~ A KM Blog » Blog Archive » Have You Found Your Plazer Yet? — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:58:09 +0000

[...] Plazer, pretty much like its predecessor, will give you now the opportunity to indicate at all times where you are by reading the MAC address of your machine and sending it back to the Plazes server. Then from there people who may be able to check your profile will be able to find out where you are at that time. Here is my profile to give you an idea of what it looks like. You will also be able to notice how the new Plazer has got as well the integration features of other applications from the previous version, so you will be able to access people’s pictures from Flickr, connect with then through various IM clients, including Skype, send different e-mail messages from inside of the tool itself and so forth. And all of that manageable from a launchpad. Quite interesting if you would want to have all those resources available to you for all your mobile coworkers and with a very lightweight client installed in your machine. [...]

By: Luis Suarez

Luis Suarez — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:19:11 +0000

Hello Dennis and welcome to elsua! Thanks very much for the feedback comments ! I really appreciate you actually shared with us the weblog post by Russell as I think it adds up some very interesting perspectives that people should be very much aware of whenever they would attempt to make use of Skype in the enterprise. Some food for thought that I will also be sure to follow up on and see what the folks from Skype say. Thus thanks again for that link !

Regarding your second query I am not sure if they would be best of breed but the three of them which I am very fond of and which I have made extensive use of are as follows:

IBM Community Tools and then IBM Lotus Sametime 7.5: the latter an IBM product already on its alpha status (Not available externally just yet)Â and which I will weblog about it some time over the next few weeks as it moves into a Beta release.
Google Talk: perhaps one of the most interesting offerings because of its extensibility with other Open source IM protocols.
Damaka: another worth while offering to look into specially because of its integration capabilities with other web services.
Gizmo Project: an Open source IM / VoIP client which is grabbing a nice momentum as well.
Jajah: Specially the cool web version option for which I will weblog about some time soon. Highly recommended.
Voipbuster: If you are interested in some very competitive rates for VoIP with some good quality VoIP capabilities.

As you will be able to see lots of different options but certainly very worth while exploring and playing around with them. Have a look into the links themselves for some reviews I have done about them in the past. Hope that helps. Thanks again for the feedback !

By: Dennis Higgins

Dennis Higgins — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:50:04 +0000

Hi – I was checking another blog at zdnet.com about Skype and saw this very interesting post by Russell Shaw – If you are thinking about Skype in your enterprise, YOU MUST read this first located at http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=984. The post describes from a network and from sa systems perspective the security risks with Skype and leaves you with some conclusions that suggest operating Skype from within your enterprise would pose some serious security risks. I was also wondering if you had ideas on what was the best of the breed for SIP/VOIP phone services.

By: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog » Blog Archive » Time to Revisit Meetro Again! - Top 5 Features I Enjoy

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:57:52 +0000

[...] There you have them. My top 5 features, amongst many others, like adding the MiniMeetro to your weblog, file transfers, working with groups, etc. etc. that I find quite interesting in order to allow mobile workers to come closer to one another and focus on continuing further with the sharing of knowledge and collaborating than having to worry about which tool would fit in their main needs and that of their buddies. Meetro seems to be fitting that profile quite nicely ! At least, from what I have been able to see myself over the last couple of weeks. Perhaps in another weblog post I will review those same features I indicated above and see how they would come across. Reason why I am saying that is because I do hope they will continue to innovate in this particular space and perhaps bring us the power of VoIP mixed up with the location awareness capabilities of Google Maps. At least, those are two of the main features I am missing from other web offerings, like Skype or Frappr. Let’s see how things will evolve over the next few weeks; for the time being if you are looking for an IM tool where locating your colleagues physically is a must-have then Meetro is your best choice. At least, for now. [...]

By: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog » Blog Archive » Time to Revisit Meetro Again!

E L S U A ~ A KM Blog » Blog Archive » Time to Revisit Meetro Again! — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:02:35 +0000

[...] Indeed, if you are one of those people who are constantly on the road, or working remotely, and doing a fair bit of travelling but you would still need to be able to get in touch with your colleagues so that you can continue collaborating and sharing knowledge with them I think that Meetro would probably be very suitable for your needs. Amongst other things, because it is a very light Instant Messaging client that connects you with some of the most popular IM protocols around (AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN) -I hope one of these days they would add as well both Skype or Google Talk, so you would be able to keep in touch with your colleagues regardless what IM tool they are using. At the same time you would be able to collaborate using all of the rich text features that you can find in pretty much all of the different IM tools out there, but there is a single feature that will make it unique against all of the other different IM tools. And that is its location awareness capabilities. [...]

By: elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog

elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:13:17 +0000

GMail Becomes a Google Talk Interface…

There is no denying that one of the key fundamental features from any Web 2.0 application out there is its interoperability and its ability of integrating with other applications and perhaps that is one of the reasons why there has……