Brian Sullivan: NetMeetingNetMeeting, Instant Messaging and VOIPSkype outage cause clarified- August 21, 2007 It is heartening to see the Skype response to the deafening roar from the anti Microsoft crowd saying Microsoft somehow caused the Skype outage: It's not what you say. It's what they hear...We don't blame anyone but ourselves. The Microsoft Update patches were merely a catalyst - a trigger - for a series of events that led to the disruption of Skype, not the root cause of it. And Microsoft has been very helpful and supportive throughout.http://radio.weblogs.com/0127028/categories/netmeeting/2007/08/21.html#a479 Skype problems- August 16, 2007 Hmm -- it seems like Skype has gone tits up. The client is in a continual "Skype (connecting)" state and has been for an hour or so. From the Skype status page: UPDATED 14:02 GMT: Some of you may be having problems logging into Skype. Our engineering team has determined that it&146;s a software issue. We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours. Meanwhile, you can simply leave your Skype client running and as soon as the issue is resolved, you will be logged in. We apologize for...http://radio.weblogs.com/0127028/categories/netmeeting/2007/08/16.html#a476 Skype- August 1, 2007 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 audiovideo conferencing...http://radio.weblogs.com/0127028/categories/netmeeting/2007/08/01.html#a473 Visitalk.com ghost- August 1, 2007 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.http://radio.weblogs.com/0127028/categories/netmeeting/2007/08/01.html#a472 |