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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 Emerging Tech Talk #028 - Skype For SIP [6:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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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 [10:23m]: 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 [10:00m]: 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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