Video Changes Everything - even Skype

Piece on GigaOm saying "Video changes everything" by the CEO of Skype:

It’s easy to slip into hyperbole. So take it with a pinch of salt when I talk about entering a place of virtual presence that mimics tangible reality, saves time and deletes distance through live video links. Take it with a pinch of salt, too, when IFTF says this new oral society creates a new public sphere. Let’s not forget that it’s still early days. But video already allows Skype users to transcend place and time, whether on the desktop or on a Skype-enabled TV, and some 4 percent of all international calling minutes are now video calling minutes, on Skype.

Video "allows Skype users to transcend place and time" not slipping into hyperbole eh . And what have all those webcamming aficionados being doing since 2003 or so on IM then?

Of course, if you had been reading Broadstuff you would have known all this 18 months ago when we reported on our Broadsight research for Telco 2.0 (if not before as we wrote a few earlier articles suggested by the research program). It was only a matter of time before increasing Bandwidth allowed major VoIP services where V stood for Video.

In fact, we've racked back on Video Futures research for a bit now as its a "given" in our opinion, and are focussing more on other areas like Real Time, Location Based and Smartphone services. Still, nice to see that the mainstream tech blogs have run with it

(Actually, I must say the Liz Gannes from GigaOm is pretty much on the pulse)

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