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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Is “VoIP” dead? As we start 2009, this theme of VoIP being “dead” is percolating throughout the VoIP/communications part of the blogosphere. Alec Saunders says it is (and said so again). Om Malik concurred with Alec. So does PhoneBoy. Jon Arnold says “it’s not dead yet“. Andy Abramson agrees with Jon. Ken Camp says VoIP is just boring. Jeff Pulver says VoIP is very much alive (and later amplifies that statement). And a zillion others have joined in as well…

In this episode, host Dan York looks at the truth – and fallacy – of the statements being made and provides his view that in many ways the whole theme is rather silly until…… (sorry, you have to watch! )

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 Emerging Tech Talk #014 - Is VoIP Dead? [6:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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What is your personal plan for communication during a natural disaster? (such as the ice storm that hit northern New England last week) If the regular telephone communications infrastructure is not available, how could you call people outside your area? How could you receive calls? Where can VoIP play a role in this?

In this episode, Dan York talks about these issues and his own ways of reaching out to people and having people hopefully reach him.

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 Emerging Tech Talk #012 - What is your personal disaster communications plan? [7:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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P.S. Is it me or is the audio just slightly out-of-sync with the video?

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