| How would you change Skype? - Engadget - www.engadget.com : - SIP gateway - Command line version for Server side API applications - Better contact management - Video (coming) - User set Supernode limits; Can I be a supernode; max connections; max bandwidth. - Keep Linux, Mac, PocketPC versions better in step with MS Win version - Improve echo cancellation for people without headsets - 3rd party peer review of security and encryption - Make the line protocols public - Provide a web presence service (coming) - Make it easier to record conversations without playing your own voice back through the headphones - Provide nativie language bindings for all the major languages rather than forcing people to use a 3rd party COM control. - Provide API examples in all the major languages - Build community around Skype user's interests, not just around support - Build more standards into the profile. FOAF, hCard, - Provide a web profile service to go with the web presence service. - Open up the ID checking and produce a Passport clone that works and is open. - Make it easy to archive chats and especially group chats to a web page. - Make group chats more IRC like. Allow you to join a known group chat rather than be invited - Remove the 50 person limit on group chats - Raise the 5 person limit on group conference calls - Add callto://yourname/chat to open a chat from a web link instead of a voice call. - Provide a mechanism for 3rd parties to charge for voice calls. The equivalent of POTS premium rate numbers - Provide a mechanism for calling premium rate POTS numbers via Skype-out - Provide App to Skype to Skype to App API functions so Apps can use Skype as a communication mechanism - Provide finer grained permissions on presence, profile access, calling and chat |
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