Skype 3.0: Transfer or no?
The jungle drums are beatin’… softly softly… but they’re beatin’.
See, rumour has it that tomorrow at 8 AM EDT, the much anticipated Skype 3.0 will be released into beta. Wonder what’s in it? So do I. And I can’t find nary a detail anywhere on the web… darn those folks at SparkPR and their foul embargo…
Of course, y’all know what we’re looking for at iotum. Yup — a call transfer API. Lenn Pryor promised us all last spring that we’d see a Skype to Skype transfer in the fall of 2006, and a Skype to PSTN in the spring. Hopefully we won’t be disappointed.
… and how many other goodies? The anticipation is killing me.
UPDATE: Apparently there are quite a few people in the know out there. As soon as this post was up, I heard from a few of them. Confirmed: the call transfer API is in. Huzzah! Also, a new plug-in architecture is one of the key components of the release. Getting it work has been quite a bit of work, but it’s now been tested with a small group of hand picked ISV’s including Jyve, Pamela, and Unyte.
Know anything more? Drop me a line, or send email.Â
November 7th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
[...] Okay, he is much taller in person, but nevertheless if we had a chance to chat with him, we would have asked him about the pending release of Skype 3.0. Alec Saunders, takes a break from his duties as the CEO of iotum, and become a reporter. He says that Skype is going to release a new client software (version 3.0) tomorrow morning sometime. I bet it is tonight during the big presentation he would make at the conference. Of course, y’all know what we’re looking for at iotum. Yup — a call transfer API. Lenn Pryor promised us all last spring that we’d see a Skype to Skype transfer in the fall of 2006, and a Skype to PSTN in the spring. Hopefully we won’t be disappointed. [...]
November 7th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
[...] According to Alec Saunders, he says that Skype 3.0 is going to be released some time tomorrow. Om of GigaOm is betting this evening. [...]
November 8th, 2006 at 7:13 am
[...] [via Gigaom and Saunderslog] Bookmark ThisThese icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
November 8th, 2006 at 8:23 am
Notice there’s no user interface for call transfers, just an API. One of those features that didn’t make the 3.0 cut, probably not coming until next summer.
November 8th, 2006 at 8:55 am
Bummer! I was looking for it and couldn’t find it either.
November 8th, 2006 at 9:26 am
[...] Right on time (alright, a little early at 7:30 AM, even!) this morning the Skype 3.0 beta was up for download. Initial impressions? [...]
November 8th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
[...] Según leemos en varios medios Niklas Zennstrom ha adelantado algunas novedades de Skype 3.0, como la posibilidad de utilizar el API para transferir llamadas, e incluso quien sabe si comunicar bien skype con otros sistemas como Asterisk, … vamos hacerlo más interoperable con otros programas de VozIP. En muy poco tiempo podremos comprobar las novedades de la versión 3.0 Skype en la inminente Beta que se acerca. PodeÃs leer más en GigaOM y Alec Saunders.log [...]
November 9th, 2006 at 7:57 am
Skype brandishes better beta (and mad ninja pirate…
I’m just hangin’ on the telephone with IT Blogwatch, in which Skype 3.0 breaks (beta) cover. Not to mention why Chris the ninja pirate went mad……
November 9th, 2006 at 6:20 pm
[...] Alec Saunders reports that Skype 3.0 Beta also has a “call transfer” API (Application Programmer Interface), which will allow developers of the new plug-in architecture to set up Skype-to-Skype call transfer features. [...]
November 11th, 2006 at 7:09 am
[...] Ne parlano Alec Saunders e Om Malik. [...]
November 16th, 2006 at 8:11 am
[...] Skype PR Wake-Up Call 1: The Issue, in which he provides example after example of the hugely mixed messages that the blogosphere delivered about the Skype 3.0 beta. No press release was circulated prior to the announcement, and most people (myself included) didn’t know it was coming. Tipped off the day before, I found out the contents and release date the old fashioned way — by calling people (on Skype, of course). As a result, I wrote about the stuff that mattered to me: the call transfer functionality. [...]
November 26th, 2006 at 8:44 am
[...] Okay, he is much taller in person, but nevertheless if we had a chance to chat with him, we would have asked him about the pending release of Skype 3.0. Alec Saunders, takes a break from his duties as the CEO of iotum, and become a reporter. He says that Skype is going to release a new client software (version 3.0) tomorrow morning sometime. I bet it is tonight during the big presentation he would make at the conference. Of course, y’all know what we’re looking for at iotum. Yup — a call transfer API. Lenn Pryor promised us all last spring that we’d see a Skype to Skype transfer in the fall of 2006, and a Skype to PSTN in the spring. Hopefully we won’t be disappointed. [...]