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December 04, 2005
Om Malik On Skype Video: Skype Eats Its Young
Posted by Stowe Boyd
Taking a week of vacation -- real vacation: no blogging at all -- means I am late to the party on all sorts of things, like Om Malik's slap in the face to Skype's predatory (or cannibalistic?) technology strategy, such as the recent Skype Video release that basically ends the business of various small firms in the Skype ecosystem (or is it just a foodchain?):
[Om Malik on Broadband : � Skype 2.0 eats its young]
The standard features make it harder for many developers to make a fiscal argument to stay in the Skype ecosystem. As they flee, the system breaks down, and new ideas stop flowing. (Of course that would also mean, some great stealable concepts would never materialize.) These same guys, start supporting Gizmo Project, which uses open source, then the momentum can quickly shift away from Skype.
At the very least they could have acquired one of the contenders, which at the least turns it into a lottery instead of infanticide.
I was very turned on about Skype early on, but I have drifted back to text IM. I can keep a bunch of text IMs going in parallel with other activities, but voice demands foreground attention. Also, the flakiness of the service is an issue when you really want to talk.
Still, I believe there is a killer VoIP app to come, and yes, it will hinge on getting video right, by which I mean video on the phone, not just on the PC. I don't think Skype can make that happen. So I am waiting and watching the other players, and I will revisit the Gizmo Project, too.
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1. Dave Howe on December 4, 2005 01:18 PM writes...
VoIP seems to be the bandwagon to jump on for a lot of people right now - Google are giving one away, BT (in the uk) now offers VoIP integration to their conventional network (via a contract with Yahoo! and using their IM client as the software), Gibson (of GRC and various on-screen punditry) and PRZ (of pgp) are both pushing their own solutions (at least PRZ is using the SIP standard though) and gaim (which claims to support every IM protocol known to man, provided you don't want to do anything fancy (like boldface your text) is mainstreaming VoIP support (taken largely from the SIP compatable linphone) and webcam support in the next release...
Permalink to Comment2. Dave Howe on December 4, 2005 03:20 PM writes...
More on the same theme from http://www.tipic.com/taxonomy/view/or/29
--- quote follows ---
Tipic Inc. is proud to announce the availability of a complete Open Source solution that can be used by anyone interested in adding audio and video calls to their wares; the solution is composed of two major parts to allow to:
1) open a P2P multimedia channel between two parties
2) make Audio and Video calls
Today we release the second part of the solution, which is based on a modified iaxclient library, with the aim of making it one of the best to create VoIP/Video calls.
The first part of the solution, is based on the XMPP/Jabber protocol. We are still working on cleaning up the code and harmonizing it with Jingle. This library will be released shortly.
If you want to try a complete working example of the solution, download TipicIM from http://www.tipic.com
Please note that this project is still in early development state and that there are many aspects that should be improved, hopefully with the help of Open Source community.
To get the code: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tipicforge/
Permalink to Comment3. Darrel on December 5, 2005 12:42 AM writes...
I'm a recent Skype to Gizmo convert and was quite surprised to see all the cool things you can do with the SIP that just weren't possible (or expensive) with Skype. I could buy a Wi-Fi, SIP-compatible phone and make calls wherever there's wireless Internet. There are SIP clients for PocketPC, Linux, Symbian, and PalmOS devices which can turn them in to VoIP clients. Add in SIP-over-GPRS and things definitely get interesting.
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