The High Road:

Florence Meichel: “Skype is really a fantastic Web 2.0 application: simple and relevant! With this new service, convergence is obvious: one can
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BlueNow’s Moodvideo creates video mail you send to your Skype contacts. Parts run on videoegg, saving user bandwidth. Congrats, Hans Blaauw.

Five security misconceptions about Skype listed by Michael Gough of SkypeTips.com
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Lost in all the blog posts on Skype Prime amid the speculation about how it could be used for a wide range of knowledge exchange and services is the prospect for conflict between Skype and its Extras Gallery partners, BitWine and Jyve. But first to put the motivation for using these services in perspective, I want to repeat the excellent Comment that Alon Cohen of BitWine put on Luca Filigheddu’s post:

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Per Great Firewall of China.org testing service, “Your URL is Blocked!” Still.

Are any other VoIP or Skype bloggers being blocked?

There is an administrative appeals process, but you have to survive multiple departments within each of China’s telecom agencies. 

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Ike Roelfsema, a volunteer Skype forum moderator, recapped consumer problems with SkypePro: people are unclear which SkypeOut calls are free and which cost money. If a Brit with a SkypePro account calls from France to Germany, does he pay? From France to France? From England to France?

The correct answer: in-country calls are free (except for Skype’s connection fee) as long as you are in one of the SkypePro-supported countries.

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Dan York: 1. “This is a global service, whereas traditional pay-per-call services are limited to the local nation in which you live.  Hmmm… think the regulators in various countries might not be entirely thrilled about this?  (Since they’re conceivably losing their tax revenue to Skype?) Interesting to note that if you are an EU resident, you’ll also be charged a 15% VAT tax.” 2. “This allows pay-per-call video
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30. 120. 0. 30. 15.

Those are the big numbers Skype Prime sellers need to know.

30% is Skype’s cut of what you earn. 30% is the kind of rate they’ve been able to get from Voxeo, where people call a phone number and talk to a psychic for 10 minutes at $7.00 a minute. When you make your living by consulting and offering professional services, 30% is a huge amount to pay for credit card processing and telephone service.

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So I’m driving down the road and my old officemate calls me, whining about his new boss. I listen for 4 minutes then tell him I’m turning on Skype Prime, hit a few numbers on my mobile, and starting billing him at $60/hour. Five minutes later he starts whining about his love life; I turn up the rate to $120/hour. He started telling me how much he missed working with me, how great I am and that he knows a great girl for me, so I rebated half his fee. Then I hit a tunnel and lost my connection.

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Skype launched Skype Prime, the beginnings of a fractional labor market, this morning. Download Skype for Windows Beta release Version: 3.1.0.134. It’s a big deal for Skype, entry into a billion dollar market. Skype only launched the meter and payment parts of the service today. Stuff that comes before a call (discovery, negotiation) and after a call (feedback, tipping, payment corrections) aren’t built
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Peer to Peer technology (P2P) first came into focus through companies like Napster and Kazza, who developed file sharing applications that would allow users to share their own files, as well as search for and download files of other users on the network. Instead of relying on a centralized client server relationship, a peer to peer network gets its strength from each individual node, adding bandwidth and processing power
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