New service!

[chaoswolf]

Scype is a free service that allows free pc to pc but semi-expensive pc to telephone calls.
Good news: Myself, asahoshi, and drakk_draconian can hold 3 way conversations with the same effect as an IM with a web camera. Bad news: it costs money to call PC to phone.

Get this service, folks. It is a very good one that can allow free calls from PC to PC without driving our phone bill through the roof!

Comments

[mdlbear]

Actually, it's quite cheap: something like .017 Euros/minute, isn't it? (Just checked. Works out to about $0.02 US.) Of course, it all works much better if the people you want to talk to are on it as well.

[johno.livejournal.com]

So how is this any different then using the private chat room feature of Yahoo/AOL/ICQ/.../...

[chaoswolf]

I suppose it's not, but skype allows you to make calls to people's phones @ 2 cents a minute.

Eh.

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

I would suggest Free World Dialup (http://www.freeworlddialup.com/), which has an Inter-Asterisk Exchange gateway (i.e., when mdlbear manages to get Asterisk set up and connected to the network, you can call me on my FWD number -- ain't standards great?).

This is the time in VoIP technology where everyone's got ideas, and ways to communicate -- and every hacker's throwing up their hands in glee, trying to get things to work.

(Think about it: FWD provides 'presence' notification. If you have an Asterisk PBX answering your POTS line, it can see whether your FWD number is online -- if it is, it forwards it; if it's not, it goes to voicemail on your home Linux box. Or something. :))

I don't like Skype because of the peer-to-peer nature of its calls -- it uses your outgoing bandwidth like bittorrent does (read its Terms of Service) to serve other calls, as part of your service to the network.

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

Just a question... but is your skype name 'ryandesantosjr'? No? Then you might want to fix your Skype me! button. :)

[chaoswolf]

Yes, it is. Nothing is wrong with the skype me! button. I tried to get chaoswolf, but I hate nicks w/ numbers after them....and I wasn't really thinking with my furry mind when I did it.