While I've been rebuilding PC's this week, a lot has been going on. Some of what caught my eye includes:
The Skype Journal has been at the Skype Ebay Devcon. Among the more notable items:
- Jim Courtney's discovery of IM+ for Skype. If you need access to your Skype buddy list, and to be able to make Skype calls from Blackberry, this is the solution for you. He and I exchanged IM notes, and then the next day I got a call from Dan York made via IM+ for Skype. Interestingly enough, it appeared to be a conference between Dan York, his mobile, and my PC. Haven't figured out yet how that works.
- With the launch of the Skype 3.5 beta, you can now transfer calls to the PSTN. This is a crucial feature which will unlock a range of new applications. We've been waiting for this for a long time at iotum, but it comes rather late as our development efforts have shifted to presence and mobility.
Meanwhile, Ken Camp has written a couple of lengthy posts (#1 and #2) on the new Jaiku client for series 60. Suffice it to say, they're worth a read if you're interested in attention economics.
And lastly, at iotum we slipped our first new Talk-Now release out in several weeks. More on that in a post later today.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
