I just converted a hard-core non-believer in beta software to try Skype - a very dear friend in London - we spoke for hours yesterday and it was so amazing - not once did the connection drop, not once did either of us have to "say that again".  Better than anything a phone line or IM service offers.  Much much better.

Phil and Stuart have some interesting ideas and are evolving a pretty interesting vision for this service. I've spoken to both on Skype, and i sense there's much much more coming from them.  They're going to be blogging their thoughts.  So much potential - revolutionalising the way telcos and broadband / dsl link service providers operate, maybe the 'next social revolution' - new smart mobs in the making, once conferencing is built in .....

What i like about their thoughts is the combination of expertise in grokking the tech, a sound marketing and consumer focus, the visioning required to stretch and think strategic innovation, and the belief that it can happen.  

Reminds me of something Walt Disney once said - "first think, second believe, third dream, finally dare"

Would be a smart move if the management at Skype listens and grabs them up before competition does.  

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Just as i have been thinking about this ... Lilia shares her experiences with Waypath.

For me the greatest value of Waypath is in helping me to find discussions related to my posts AND outside of my blogging ecosystem.

By pointing to weblogs beyond my ecosystem Waypath amplifies connections with relevant people and ideas. As I understand this power comes from analysing conceptual connections between weblogs' posts instead of tracing links. For me it works much better than Radio Google-It! macro, which usually brings weblogs I read regularly or those that I track anyway via Technorati.

In case if you don't know, Waypath supports RSS feeds for your searches, so you can receive updates on new posts in the blogosphere on specific topic. For example I use it to monitor posts that say something about knowledge worker.

But what I really like is Waypath plug-in that shows related posts for my own posts. I'm playing with it and so far I have discovered two ways to use it:

• finding new connections (there are some good matches here already)
• finding old connections (if it shows only weblogs I know than I suspect that the topic is likely to "belong" to "my corner of the blogosphere") 

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