[casual_games] Skype game channel?

[Thomas H. Buscaglia]

I use it daily with my clients to video 
telecons...and I find that it has a much broader 
acceptance level than other IM setups, even 
though many of them also have video conf capability.

Tom B

At 03:33 AM 5/18/2007, you wrote:

>On 18/05/07, Robert Headley <Rheadley at op-games.com> wrote:

>>I disabled skype extras causes its bloated and uses too much memory ;)

>>

>>I don't see skype being any more significant than ICQ or other successful

>>IMs have been.

>

>FWLIW, there's a (couple of) world(s) of difference between Skype and

>[insert IM here].

>

>e.g.:

>

>1. It's primarily a telephone replacement; that's part of why it was

>bought for a couple of billion dollars. The perception alone that it

>will replace the telecomms giants, who are worth a lot more than that,

>would make it cheap at that price. It already has in the region of

>10-50 million phone users.

>

>2. It's the only free, mass-market, "safe" IM solution (with proper

>end-to-end encryption), unless something major has changed since I

>last did a corporate review of which IM clients we could allow people

>to use...

>

>I would be careful not to dismiss Skype too easily.

>

>Adam

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