This is a guest blog post by Jonathan Baldwin showcasing an application that he wrote using Tropo called The People’s Skype. It’s phone-powered, distributed voice and voting system for the #Occupy Movement! As the Occupy Wall Street movement grew in popularity at Zucotti Park in NYC, and other occupations in North America, Jonathan noticed a [...]
This is a guest blog post by Jonathan Baldwin showcasing an application that he wrote using Tropo called The People’s Skype. It’s phone-powered, distributed voice and voting system for the #Occupy Movement! As the Occupy Wall Street movement grew in popularity at Zucotti Park in NYC, and other occupations in North America, Jonathan noticed a [...]
What is the new partnership between Skype and Citrix all about? How will it work? Will it be secure? How much will it cost? Will it work on a Mac? At Enterprise Connect 2011 in Orlando, host Dan York interviewed Andrew Sinclair of Skype about Skype’s announcement on March 1, 2011, of the plan to [...]
Tropo provides all applications with a special phone number that can be called from Skype without needing a SkypeOut account or any payment to Skype. It’s intended for testing applications, since the connection on Skype’s side that’s used for this isn’t maintained by Skype as a production offering. Your Tropo application gets a number like [...]
Here’s what I think happened – there was a bug in a forced ugprade of Skype 5 for Windows that brought down nearly all the supernodes. Here’s how I figured it out… Yesterday our Director of Conversations, Dan York, wrote a great article on the fundamentals of how Skype works and why Skype was down [...]
What does the brand new Skype 5.0 Beta for Mac look like? How drastically did Skype redesign the user interface (UI)? How well does Group Video work for multi-party video calls? In this episode host Dan York gets together with Phil Wolff of Skype Journal and Jim Courtney of VoiceOnTheWeb to demonstrate Skype’s new Skype [...]
Here at the secret layers of Tropo Support we often see similar questions raised by our developer base. We pay attention to these trends, since they often indicate that something may be lacking in our documentation. If we do find something is lacking we of course want to address by expanding on concepts or [...]
