__ Connecting the Dots Podcast __   /     CTD for February 10, 2007

Description

A brief podcast about Skype...the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) computer telephony software. In this show, I explain why I'm BOTH enthused and dismayed by Skype: a) Skype is a quiet and therefore tension-reducing product enhancing voice communications making them...

Subtitle
A brief podcast about Skype...the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) computer telephony software. In this show, I explain why I'm BOTH enthused and dismayed by Skype: a) Skype is a quiet and therefore tension-reducing product enhancing voice communicatio
Duration
Publishing date
2007-02-10 19:14
Link
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ConnectingTheDots/~3/MZ7UsKDMRpU/ctd_for_februar.html
Contributors
  Steve Borsch
author  
Enclosures
http://www.wsjb.com/podcast/20070210_CTD.mp3
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Shownotes

A brief podcast about Skype...the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) computer telephony software. In this show, I explain why I'm BOTH enthused and dismayed by Skype:

a)  Skype is a quiet and therefore tension-reducing product enhancing voice communications making them more intimate. It really enhances conference calls and simple voice calls in new and more important ways;

b) I tell a couple of personal stories of how Skype has provided meaningful communications for my family and one other with whom I've shared my Skype enthusiasm

c) Demonstrate Skype quality with a recording of a call with my bride who is on a Frankfurt, Germany hotel phone at the same time my daughter is racing through a shopping mall in Florida while on a cell phone

d) With a recording of using the Skype dialpad to get into interactive voice response systems, I demonstrate why Skype can't yet be trusted or fully utilized for business voice telephony since its DTMS (Dual Tone Multi Frequency or touch tones) implementation is flawed

e) Lastly, I want to test out Skype-to-Skype recording while we're both on decent microphones (vs. headsets) so I connect with fellow podcaster Tim Elliott of the Winecast podcast and we do an impromptu -- albeit NOT optimized quality -- discussion which I recorded.

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