Invisible Inkling

Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.

All About skype

Why I love the Internet

Because shortly before our daughter arrived, I ordered a webcam from Amazon. It was here when we got back from the hospital, and it took about 15 minutes of setup to start streaming video via Skype to four grandparents spread across North and South America.
The only hard part? Not scratching myself wrong in the [...]

SJSU Skype meeting tonight, in person and, um, on Skype

[2nd UPDATE: Skype lives at SJSU for now. Details at Skype Journal.]
[UPDATE: Yeah, I totally didn't tune in due to a scheduling conflict, but the word on the street is that SJSU will allow Skype usage. I'm wondering if we're now a beta tester for Skype for Enterprise...]
There’s an open forum on the [...]

The questions I want answered about the proposed Skype ban at SJSU

San Jose State University is throwing around the idea of banning Skype from its network, due to concerns over Skype’s grid computing model. In Internet layman’s terms, that means Skype uses everybody’s bandwidth to ship packets around instead of some big central server of epic proportions.
The folks behind Skype are the same people who [...]