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Is it just me, or does Skype seem like a really good idea? Telephone calls, instant messaging, file transfers (up to 4GB in size) all over the internet, and it's free. You can also buy credits to make calls to old fashioned land lines and mobiles, and that it is incredibly cheap too. Apparently it is an adaptation of all that peer2peer software that has been around for a while. This may very well spell the end of us having a land line. I am very concerned for BT. How will they manage?
Oh, and they have a global telephone directory where you can search for people all over the world. I found a couple of people with the same name as me, one in Canada and one in Japan, and I have sent them an IM just to say hi!
mr mcmuffin on 28 Sep 2004 @ 10:41 AM ✲ Permalink
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There's someone called McMuffin in Japan? I'd never have thought it.
Coincidentally I was just looking at Skype myself yesterday - it does seem almost "too good to be true".
Posted by: Steve | 28 Sep 2004 20:16:57
I've been doing some reading about it today instead of working. It is as good as it seems...almost. The voice calls are excellent quality but the service isn't very consistent. Everything seems to work as advertised. I am still going to try to use it, although it won't actually let me buy any credits at the moment for some reason (inconsistent service perhaps?) but not bank on it being a replacement for a little while yet. It is still only in beta on Mac, so I'll bear with it for a bit. Everywhere I looked seemed to reckon that this was the future of voice calls though, which does look promising.
Posted by: mr mcmuffin | 28 Sep 2004 20:26:42
