A few weeks ago I wrote Enough Sip / Skype Foolishness, which indexed a wider blog discussion about whether Skype was replacing SIP. This piece got a fair bit of attention after being picked up and linked by Jeff Pulver. Since then a number of people, including some of the net luminaries, have weighed in [...]
SIP is Dead was a provocative headline after VON Canada, sparking a minor packet storm of blog commentary. The bits have been flowing …
It all started with Niklas Zennstrom’s report on exponential Skype growth at VON Canada, prompting Jeff Pulver to say Shift Happens and call Skype the iPod of Communications
Martin Geddes writes [...]
Niklas Zennstrom gave a keynote at VON Canada yesterday. He showed a curve plotting Skype adoption vs. Kazaa, Hotmail, and ICQ. It blows them away. Pulver put the presentation online here. He talks about Skype as the iPod of telephony here.
Here’s some current stats:
35 million users
155 thousand new users per day
1.5 [...]