![]() ![]() You can also change the settings of how you are notified of various events – for instance, if someone comes online, if someone sends you an instant message or if someone calls you. To protect your privacy you can choose only to be contacted by people in your contact list. You might not want any of the 240 million users of Skype to call you. If you log in with your FaceBook account you will see your friends in your Skype contact list, in addition to the contacts you have added in Skype. You can find other people using Skype in the Skype directory and add them to your contacts. You can sign up for a new Skype account, or you can sign in using a Microsoft account (Hotmail, or Live username) or a FaceBook account. To start using Skype you need to have a user account. The Skype application is available free of charge and can be downloaded and installed on a number of different devices – computers running different operating systems, tablets, mobiles, TV’s, phones and gaming devices. In this article, I’ll tell you how to get started and I’ll give you an overview of the free services and the premium service offered by Skype that will help you save money. ![]() If you are paying high telephony bills for international calls or conference calls I’m sure you can save a lot of money using Skype instead. But Skype also provides a number of other telephony services like text messaging and group conference calling that you can get if you purchase Skype credits or sign up for Skype Premium. Many of you probably know that you can send instant messages and do voice and video calls using Skype over the Internet for free. Starting in April 2013 Microsoft will shut down Windows Live Messenger and move users around the world (except for those in China) over to Skype. Skype is being used by over 280 million users and Microsoft is placing high bets on Skype which they acquired in 2011. Last year Skype hosted the same amount of calls as one-third of the world’s phone traffic. Last week a report from telecom market research firm TeleGeography showed that Skype voice and video traffic over the Internet grew 44 percent to 167 billion minutes in 2012. Was completely un-necessary? Yes.Business Productivity > Blog > How to save money using Skype How to save money using Skype Were they complete and utter assholes for doing it? Absolutely. ![]() Was Yahoo legally obligated to not delete 22 years worth of user content in a single afternoon? No. The entireity of GeoCities was several terabytes (in 2009 that was small enough to fit a few hundred dollars worth of hard-drives). When Yahoo deleted GeoCities they managed to set the world record for the fastest destruction of the largest amount of user-created content. Just because users didn't pay you to act as a decent person doesn't mean you should treat their data as though it was worthless. The fact they didn't treat it with respect is an ethics problem. The data itself had worth to the users, but more importantly it is the reason why the company has a community. Then one day the company decides to delete the user's data without warning (or without their acknowledgement or consent). So the user gives them some of their data, and that overall builds the community around whatever the company is selling. A small company shows up and says "hey, look at this great 'experience' you can get if you just give us some of your data". Yes, you're correct that since I haven't paid them they currently have no legal obligation to treat my data with respect (usually because I've agreed to non-binding EULA that is vague enough to allow for most abuses).īut look at it from a user's perspective. Respectfully, I don't think that's the right question to be asking. ![]()
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