Blocking Skype : even more difficult now.

The battle is on : Latest Skype beta more difficult to block. It’s one of the best solutions to bypass firewall without getting noticed. It’s a scary «little» thing. According this article the Skype community runs the world's largest supercomputer. Nice comparison. We are indeed all sharing a bit of our bandwidth and opening our buisness and social network to achieve at lower cost what used to be impossible : calling around the world at a fair rate and if needed make the jump to PSTN/Cellphones. On top of that you get video-chat, christal clear soundquality when you stay on the p2p Skype-cloud. I really don’t get the point on the matter off all these other companies complaining about skype this and that. It is simply better and they did not invent it. They are just protecting their turf of existing customers that are and will slowly make the jump towards «shared telephony» networks. 

And there are these news-streams popping up : EBay Starts To Slide where it is suggested that the recent buyers of Skype got themselves a deal which could hurt the company on the long run and something about struggling in the face of new competition like AOL that will offer free number to get calls (AOL Launches VoIP And Social Networking). Or worse there are those that state that there is internet bubble all over again where things like PayPal and Shopping.com make sense. Maybe yes, but I will have to go mobile and get into our cellphones and make life more easy. Mixed communications, but easily manageable and integrated. Stuff like www.soonr.com, www.eqo.com, www.iskoot.com are early indicators of this.

In mean time : Egypt receives 11 bids for third mobile license.

I would suggest to take a look at this nice story of Guilio and Gavin using Skype to stay in touch and then take a good look at your PSTN-phone, your cellphone and then look the phone-bill of the past 20 years. Then buy a shredder and never look back again. Suggestion : maybe keep your PSTN-phones and sell them on Ebay as collectables. Just put them on an attick somewhere in a box. Send yourself an email that will arrive in your email within 20 years from now and see what happens.