What is the new partnership between Skype and Citrix all about? How will it work? Will it be secure? How much will it cost? Will it work on a Mac? At Enterprise Connect 2011 in Orlando, host Dan York interviewed Andrew Sinclair of Skype about Skype’s announcement on March 1, 2011, of the plan to incorporate GoToMeeting technology into Skype.

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What does the brand new Skype 5.0 Beta for Mac look like? How drastically did Skype redesign the user interface (UI)? How well does Group Video work for multi-party video calls?

In this episode host Dan York gets together with Phil Wolff of Skype Journal and Jim Courtney of VoiceOnTheWeb to demonstrate Skype’s new Skype 5.0 Beta for MacOS X, released today and available for free download.

Earlier today, Dan published two blog posts walking through the new user interface and then giving a first look at the group video feature. This ETT video now shows the full effect of how it all works.

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What is new with Skype? What will the changes with a new CEO bring? What was the news about Avaya integration all about? What about Facebook integration?

On Oct 5th at ITEXPO West 2010 in L.A., host Dan York interviewed Skype Journal editor Phil Wolff about the latest news from Skype, including the new CEO. (Note: Since the time this was recorded, Skype came out with a new version 5 for Windows that provides some of the Facebook integration we discussed.)

This episode was also an experiment in shooting and producing a video *entirely* on the iPhone 4. Editing was done in iMovie on the iPhone. And yes, the next time I try this I will keep my finger out of the frame.

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How do you connect a USB headset to an iPad? Do you have an iPad and want to use Skype or other VoIP softphones? Would you like to use a USB headset instead of just the speaker/mic? In this episode, host Dan York shows the 3 simple steps to using a USB headset with the Apple iPad via Apple’s iPad “Camera Connection Kit”.

(In ETT#52, Dan demonstrated the full range of what the Camera Connection Kit could do.)

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Yesterday Skype announced the beta of their “Skype For SIP” service that will allow Skype users to call premise call servers/IP-PBXs via SIP and for those servers to make outbound calls to PSTN phone numbers using Skype’s network and at Skype’s rates. In this episode, host Dan York talks about the announcement and what it all means for Skype interoperability (or lack thereof). Dan also wrote at length about Skype For SIP over at:

http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2009/03/skype-tears-down-more-walls-with-skype-for-sip.html

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What is the “rich communication experience” that we are trying to build? Why can’t that experience work over today’s Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)? What do we need to make this experience happen?

In this 10-minute presentation at the Emerging Communication Conference (eComm), I sought to answer the question of why we want to move beyond the PSTN – outlining the kind of experience we are seeking, the pieces of the communications puzzle that are currently available, the issues we need to address and the roadblocks that are in place. I end asking people to think about what is the experience we want to build – and to bring more people into that conversation to make it happen.

This talk began forming last summer when eComm organizer Lee Dryburgh made a comment on the internal eComm Program Advisory Board mailing list about how he was tired of people always taking shots at how poor the PSTN was without offering a few of what we were aiming to achieve. At about the same time, fellow blogger Aswath Rao asked why “VoIPers wanted to kill off the PSTN.” I decided to put together an answer – and the result was this presentation.

A text version of the talk will be available on my DisruptiveTelephony.com blog in the next few days and the slides are available on SlideShare and also embedded below.

And yes, all 54 slides were delivered in 10 minutes. (It’s a certain style of presenting.)

Comments and feedback on this presentation are definitely appreciated.

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Emerging Tech Talk #027 - The Park Bench Manifesto - Why We Want To Kill Off The PSTN [ 10:23 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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The slides to go along with this talk are available here, although to be honest they really need to be synced to the audio to be understood (which I’ll do at some point):

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Tonight out at MacWorld, Skype is announcing their new 2.8 Beta for Mac OS X which rolls out some new features including screen sharing, WiFi access via Boingo, a new way to interact with Mood messages that are more like Twitter, chat prioritization and a number of other options.

In this episode, host Dan York demonstrates those new features and shows what the new Skype 2.8 Beta for Mac OS X looks like…

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Emerging Tech Talk #015 - Demo of new Skype 2.8 Beta for Mac OS X [ 10:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Would you like to join a public chat room to provide feedback on Emerging Tech Talk shows? Or to suggest new topics? Or to just chat about topics I cover in the show?

Since I’m a heavy Skype user on a daily basis, I decided to start up a public chat for this show. If you also use Skype, you can join the ETT public chat simply by clicking this link.

You will also see this box in the second sidebar now where you can join:

I’m not sure, quite frankly, what type of traffic we’ll see in the public chat, but I thought it could be a useful experiment…. and I’m open to your suggestions as to how we might use it.

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