Skype Developer Program events featured at eBay Dev Conference
Jim Courtney of Skype Journal is at the eBay Developers Conference in Boston. And comes as no surprise eBay-owned Skype has a very visible presence, manifested by activities centered around the Skype Developer Program.
Jim summarizes an eventful day:
Lester Madden started off the day with a demonstration of the Skype Publishing Tool which provides not only integration for collecting payments associated with licensing Skype Extras and other Partner products but also significant flexibility for the Partner to set licensing terms, license pricing and promotional activities. (Lou Guercia of Unyte then concluded the session with a ten minute overview of Unyte's history and how it took Patience and Persistence to achieve the results where, with the launch of Skype Extras, they have now had over 500,000 registered users - a doubling since the launch of Skype Extras in December, 2006.
I then met with Lou for a demonstration of the new Unyte 2.5 which incorporates a peer-to-peer to mode and a well as a Remote Assistance mode for Desktop Sharing as a escalation from Chat to Voice to Desktop Sharing all within the Skype client. Speed, the handling of cross platform screen resolution and color quality improvements were all noticeable in the product as a result of the new features.
I then attended Peeter Motskula's session describing the five categories of API's in more detail along with an overview of what they could accomplish. I then had a demonstration of Evoca's new voice recording and recording management engines that provides unique hosting opportunities for incorporating voice into websites and podcasts along with other web services.
The final session today involved a presentation of Convenos Meeting Manager where we discussed the market for full web conferencing (as opposed to desktop sharing) and how Covenos has come about to be effectively positioned for the small to medium business market. Another story of persistence and patience that has resulted in recent significant success.
The conference ends today.