Sun 19 Dec. 2004

Skype Goes Social

On Many-to-Many Ross Mayfield reports an a new Skype feature: mulitparty chat.

The easy group forming properties and functional profiles are fantastic. Of course, it meshes will with their conference call capability. Stuart Henshall already demands greater scale. Of course, their P2P architecture means no server will be overloaded.

You can recall past chats as groups, but it still doesn’t treat groups as first class objects in the system and the persistence of history with fluid groups leads to less comfortable context shifting.

In addition, the beta is windows only. Hopefully the Mac and Linux versions will follow soon.

Worth keeping an eye on.