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Last update: 22/06/2008; 12:12:30 PM. August 2007 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat       1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31   Jul   Sep Home Stories Brian Sullivan's Flickr Space Meeting by Wire Courses by Wire ELearning Development Weblog Scobleizer Scripting News Zope Plone Brian Sullivan Auto Racing Creative Problem Solving E-Learning Jazz NetMeeting Zope/Plone Recent Posts Borden Air Show and RCMP Musical Ride  6/22/08 Happy 60th  6/16/08 Does Twitter have founderitis?  5/20/08 Toronto Zoo  5/19/08 Twitter continues on its trip to down the toilet bowl  5/19/08 Regular Twitter outage  5/15/08 Twitter forked again  5/14/08 Google maps test  5/9/08 Twitter $$$ continued  5/9/08 End game for Skype - $0 revenue? What about Twitter?  4/28/08 Twitter is saved!  4/23/08 Tweetless  4/21/08 Robert Scoble and Twitter  4/14/08 Twitter vs. Pownce  3/5/08 Fragile DNS  2/25/08 Value of Video Blogging  2/13/08 Why do Twitter "upgrades" always seem like "downgrades"  1/31/08 Buffalo State vs. Geneseo  1/28/08 Facebook picture security/privacy breach  1/17/08 Big Lens  1/12/08 Bill Wadman  1/7/08 Hotmail down?  12/29/07 ROM  12/27/07 Merry Christmas  12/23/07 Loren Feldman - knob extraordinaire?  12/19/07 Twitter $$$  12/15/07 Lijit Search		August 1, 2007   Skype Last year I commented (well maybe I whined?) about the lack of progress in the real time conferencing on the Internet front. I hadn't really been paying much attention but lately I have been looking into the add-ins available for Skype. It seems that Skype's ubiquity (and availability of a usable API) has spawned a host of tools for the small ad hoc meeter including a couple of whiteboards, application sharing tools, and file sharing tools. With Skypes multi way audio/video conferencing functionality it looks like it might be starting to fulfil the promise of NetMeeting. I haven't had a chance to use any of these add-ins though. Has anybody tried them? Which ones? Do they support Skype's multiparty functions? 12:46:49 PM        comment []    Visitalk.com ghost In 1999 (I think that that is the timing) I was invited to go to Phoenix (on their dime) to visit a company (visitalk.com) with grand plans to build a "internet phone directory" mostly aimed at NetMeeting users. At the time I had some standing in the NetMeeting world being one of two Microsoft NetMeeting MVPs (the other was Robert Scoble of Scobleizer fame). I wasn't totally sure why I was invited (maybe it was a job interview?) but I found out they had grand expansion plans, somewhat vague business plans, and apparently $50 million dollars that they were burning through at a furious rate. When I returned I added a mini review to my NetMeeting information site. Shortly after that apparently the money ran out, visitalk.com declared bankruptcy and that seemed the end of it. But the site www.visitalk.com stayed. To this day at least 7 years after bankruptcy it continues to operate -- apparently able to take payments for the internet service that I doubt still operates. A true ghost from the past. 10:03:31 AM        comment []    © Copyright 2008 Brian Sullivan.