Comments on: Open Thread: Is Skype Outage Affecting Your Work? http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/ Fri, 25 May 2012 10:45:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The wonders of video chat | theappleofmyi.com http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63156 Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:34:16 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/08/16/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63156 [...] Not only will it have effected casual users, but also people who depend on it for their business. Web Worker Daily posted about this very thing. Luckily things are back to [...]

]]> By: Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Weekend Reader « http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63155 Sat, 18 Aug 2007 16:06:06 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/08/16/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63155 [...] Skype Recovers – After a week that the folks at Skype will surely want to forget, Skype gets back to [...]

]]> By: GigaOM Skype Groans & SIPphone Gains « http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63154 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:22:12 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/08/16/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63154 [...] It has been a day from hell for Skype fans and Skype, the company. The outages have impacted many. Skype’s misfortune turned out to be a boon for [...]

]]> By: Tris Hussey http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63153 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:55:04 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/08/16/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63153 I rely of Skype to keep in touch with far-flung places. Not to mention the group Skype chats. When I login in the morning I can catch up with discussions that have started … and as the rest of the world sleeps, I can make my own updates.

In the meantime I’ve been using Gtalk and a hastily set up IRC server.

]]> By: startlingmoniker http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63152 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:44:47 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/08/16/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63152 I can take a day off Skype– and they WERE up periodically, cause I got a few calls in. When I compare Skype’s problems to the number I used to have with an ordinary phone, Skype comes out way ahead.

]]> By: Tim Wheatley http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63151 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:42:36 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/08/16/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63151 I have to say that from my extensive experience with Skype, it’s not so bad for it to be down today.

My work uses it for conferencing, I (British guy) use it to call my family back in the UK (I’m in USA) and I also use SkypeIn for them to call me… Call quality is usually superb and I’m very satisfied. I have a cell phone and a landline too and I’m old enough to remember having neither of those either… I can survive without Skype for a while…

]]> By: Nir http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63150 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:56:59 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/08/16/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63150 It is pretty annoying, and Skype really need to do something about their service quality. I’m using SkypeIn and issues like malfunctioning voicemail or non-ringing calls are way to frequent, considering this is a payed service.

BTW, is anyone else getting tired of cutesy “Web 2.0″ service-down messages? Skype’s homepage now says: “The Skype system has not crashed or been victim of a cyber attack. We love our customers too much to let that happen.” – but not enough to prevent just a plain day long outage from happening, though? ;)

]]> By: vanderwal http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63149 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:21:26 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/08/16/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63149 I use Skype as primary contact with about 50% of my clients. Either text chat or voice/video. Fortunately today I was dealing with clients on e-mail and regular phone. With ongoing clients they will often buy a day of my time and we will connect via Skype to work. Often we will leave the video/voice going as we are reading and iterating through tasks. It is a good way to my customers to see I am focusing on their work and it helps keep me focussed on them as well. It is like a tunnel into their office either a few miles away or some other far part of the globe.

]]> By: Top Posts « WordPress.com http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63148 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:00:40 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/08/16/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63148 [...] Open Thread: Is Skype Outage Affecting Your Work? Skype, one of the primary means of communication for web workers has been on the fritz for past few hours, possibly […] [...]

]]> By: Joe http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63147 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:09:19 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/08/16/open-thread-is-skype-outage-affecting-your-work/#comment-63147 Can’t…..seem….to…..lift….handset, pant, Skype, what have you done to me??????

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