Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Making Call's on the Web


It seems that even phone calls are going to be made easy to do on the web. In case you haven't heard what
skype is it is a service that allows people to make phone calls straight from their computer. It is really a simple process. All that you have to do is download the software and begin. I know of a lot of people that have really seen the benefits of this when there family or girlfriend/boyfriend is in another country. It is a convenient way to be able to talk to each other.

Skype has not been widely know in the past but that may be changing now that it has joined with myspace. I just read an article titled "Myspace and Skype Join Forces," that stated that making these phone calls on Skype is going to be even easier to do now that it is being made more convenient through myspace. Now whomever has myspace is going to be able to make calls to anyone. It does cost to use this service, but the article stated that people who have skype already can call each other for free. This is really cool when you think about it. This will probably even get skype mentioned a lot more than it is now. It is hard to imagine that something like this that is offered on one of the biggest social networking sites there is not being mentioned. I am sure that skype will catch on even it is only for a while.

While this does offer a lot of benefits it is a little scary once again to imagine where technology is taking us. Pretty much everything is going to be able to be accomplished on the internet. People read the news on the internet, buy music, shop, now make calls! But when I think about it, I guess why not?

1 comment:

Cameron said...

I personally have seen Skype growing of late. I saw a headset at Best Buy the other day that said "Works Great with Skype" on the package. Also, the sherdog.com podcasts use Skype to allow the co-hosts (who live in different cities) talk to each other and do the show. Prior to using Skype, they used normal phones and the quality was about half of Skype quality.