Entries from seikatsu tagged with 'skype'
A Day in Twitter User's Life
I've found myself using Twitter more and more recently. In large part it comes on the expense of blogging here - the mental entry barrier is so much different from taking proper time out of a busy day to write a polished blog entry versus shooting away compressed 140 character thought-bits from my mobile in the middle of a meeting or in transit when travelling. I've experimented quite a bit with what I tweet about. At some point I jotted...
On Skype and European Innovation at Stanford
I had an honor to speak at Stanford University on March 9th, as part of their European Entrepreneurship & Innovation Thought Leaders seminar series (see web site and Facebook group). I truly enjoyed the experience, meeting students, faculty and guests and joining a dinner in a smaller circle later for fascinating follow-up conversations around entrepreneurship. (Photo courtesy of Steve Jürvetson, click on it for his notes from the audience) Here are the slides I used: The Story of Skype (Stanford...
Presidendid omavahel
Täna hõigati maha uudis, et kuu aja pärast, 19. märtsil, toimub Tallinnas Tehnopolis Presidendi Kärajate egiidi all avalik vestlus Eesti Vabariigi presidendi Toomas Hendrik Ilvese ja Skype'i presidendi ja juhatuse esimehe Josh Silvermani vahel. Räägitakse muidugimõista innovatsioonijuttu. Kiirematele võib õnnestuda veel leida paar kutset, palun andke märku. Ja kuna kõik soovijad kardetavasti saali ei mahu, on plaanis teha üritusest ka videoülekanne internetis....
Interviewed by TigerPrises/ArcticStartup
Talked to Toivo Tänavsuu last week on what's happening at Skype, how is the labour market looking and how do we relate to the broader technology startup scene in Estonia. The video inteview was publised on TigerPrises and ArcticStartup. Interview with Sten Tamkivi from Skype from Toivo Tänavsuu on Vimeo....
Skype 4.0 Beta 3 - UPDATED
Skype launched the third beta version of the new and shiny 4.0 client for Windows in December. I missed reblogging the news here, but you can read from the source what Mike said about Beta 3 on Skype Blogs. In a nutshell, the History is back, a new Bandwidth Manager improves your audio and video call quality and the look of the whole client skin has been refreshed. If you did not get it then, then today is a great...
2008 Travel Report
Looking back at 2008 I discovered that it was a quiet one -- travel-wise that is. Mostly I have to thank Etta for her appearance in May and becoming a good excuse for some no-fly-zone right before and paternity leave after, running into the summer. Number of business trips: ~15 Flight legs: ~32 (+ 3 international trains) Days away from home: ~67 London: 41 days (including one almost-a-month with whole family again) Luxembourg: 11 days San Jose / San Francisco:...
Helge tulevik ja Lollide saar
Käsil on tihe meedianädal... EPL Tehnika ja IT lisalehes ilmus üks minu allkirjaga juhtkiri. Millegipärast aga toda erialast lisalehte internetti ei riputata, seega jääb üle jälle blogipostitus: Helge tulevik ja Lollide saar Mida see tähendab, kui üks tsivilisatsioon on miljon aastat vana?" küsis kosmosemees ja rahvavalgustaja Carl Sagan. Meil on mõne aastakümne jagu kogemust raadioteleskoopide ja kosmoselaevadega. Miljonite aastate vanune arenenud tsivilisatsioon on meist sama kaugel, kui meie oleme ees galaagost või makaagist." Millistes mastaapides me mõelda tahame? Viieaastase perspektiiviga?...
Skype 4.0 is smaller again
As promised in June, the second iteration of Skype 4.0 client is now available for download. If you got on to beta 1 and liked it or hated it, I highly recommend the upgrade to beta 2. The past quarter has really passed fast. I'm amazed how much the 4.0 research, design, product and project management, development and quality assurance teams got through. Especially given that you have to work under timeline pressure while at the same time being called...
President's Speech on Innovation
Last week's Baltic Dynamics 2008 conference was opened by an address by the President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves, speaking on Innovation. As the full text did not make it to the president.ee website's speeches section yet, I pinged his office and they kindly provided me a full copy in a few hours. Transparent government in action, love it. As I think this is one of the best condensed summaries of the major issues -- such as investments, education,...
Summer - over and out
It is obviously the back-to-school-and-work season now. First: I'm receiving complaints that this blog has seen just 2 posts in last 2 months... In July nor August nobody cared, including myself. If you were one of those worried about silence - I now know that you have not subscribed to the feed. My Flickr feed you receive as an automagically embedded freebie when subscribing to this blog, has actually had a full trail of mobile snapshots of what has happened...
Skype 4.0 beta 1 is out!
Yes, it has taken something like 2 years from first conceptual ideas being bounced around. I've been involved in Skype's Desktop clients team since March and I have to tell you, approaching the first beta launch of our 4.0 client is one of the reasons for deafening silence on this blog. June especially has been very intense and I'm truly proud of what the hundreds of people involved have pulled off. Please do read the official blog post, download...
Skype'i uue CEO esimene intervjuu
Skype "uus" (hakkab juba kaks kuud täis saama varsti, tegelikult) pealik Josh andis oma esimese intervjuu selles rollis Eesti Ekspressile. Soovitan lugeda neil, kes segaduses iga Skype-uudise juurde kuuluvatest kommentaari-teadjameeste juttudest, et Skype on valmis ja seal enam midagi teha ei ole, kolib Eestist minema Indiasse, palkab siin ainult odavat orjatööjõudu, ei kasva enam, ei ole rahaliselt edukas jne jne. Ja nagu ikka, on eestlasena aeg-ajalt huvitav ja alati kasulik mõne kaugemalt tulnu pilgu läbi siinset elu näha....
Video Call with Her Majesty
Just finished a video call with Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. She was visiting Skype Tallinn office as part of her state visit to Estonia. I was babysitting at home. One of these physical location misses when Skype really becomes handy. Also, Etta joined the ranks of the babies worldwide who have had their first video call while less than 10 days old....
Numbers to Prove How Much I Love Skype Chats
Played around with some simple queries in my active Skype chats database, which weighs 215MB in plain text and has data since May 16th 2006. Probably I did a computer migration around then and earlier history (since I started using an early beta of Skype in mid-2003) is buried somewhere in backups. Found out that I have sent 59709 and received 273715 messages during this time. And respectively 27389 outbound and 140505 inbound messages in the year of 2007. That's...
Teeme Ära: I'm so proud of my colleagues
Estonia inherited a mass of rubbish after it regained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 but it has only added to the problem since. 50,000 people, more than 3% of Estonian population of 1.3 million were out this Saturday to clean the forest, roadsides and other public areas from illegal waste. Volunteers had mapped over 10 656 garbage dumping sites all over the country by the beginning of April. This weekend 207 temporary collecting stations were put up to...
Skype for Your Mobile is here
It used to be that you had to be lucky enough to live in one of the eight countries of Hutchinson's 3 network to use the "official" version of Skype on a 3 Skypephone handset. That option is still there, but the world has gotten smaller again for those of us elsewhere, say in Elbonia. If you are a Skype user and have one of these 50 mobile handset models (more on the way), just go and download a client...
On Estonia at The World
To share another recent radio appearance (the previous one in Estonian only, sorry) here is my interview for Marco Werman at PRI's The World that aired on a network of radio stations across the US in January: MP3, 4.5 minutes. We talked a little about Skype, but more about the factors that have enabled tiny Estonia to introduce a number of tech innovations both inside the country and for the world. To understand the context for the interview, please listen...
Kukul Külas
Nädal tagasi käisin Kuku raadio saates Kukul Külas. Aukartustäratav - 15 aastat saadet ja üle 700 külalise, mitte keegi neist rohkem kui üks kord. Olin kutset saades mõnevõrra kõhklev ja ebakindel - raadio otse-eeter ei ole küll nii hull kui televisiooni oma, aga kaks tundi isiklikel teemadel grillimist, ilma vigade parandamise võimaluseta võiks iga inimese tema mugavustsoonist pisut välja tõsta. Tegelikult juhtis Janek Luts vestlust väga mõnusas võtmes. Rääkisime eelkõige Skype'ist, Eesti majandusest, riigi tulevikust ja muust. Liigsesse isikukultusesse laskumata....
Notes from Tekes R&D financing seminar
On Monday I was in Helsinki, speaking at a seminar organized by Tekes, Finnish funding agency for tech & innovation. They are launching a new generation of integrated startup financing schemes - which I do not know much about, as my Finnish is below par to fully understand their published materials. But it was a nice half-day event to provide context around their announcements. The guest speakers included Dr Orna Berry who shared the Israeli innovation financing experiences, Quatar Capital's...
More Channels, Fewer Better Messages
1997 it was postcards. 1999 e-mail. 2001 e-cards. 2003 sms. 2005 all of the above. 2007... I tried to roughly estimate the number of "Merry X-mas" and "Happy New Year" messages I received (or rather - was exposed to?) over this holiday season. Probably in the range of 200? Or 300? In addition to the channels listed above, also came through Skype chats, blogs, RSS feeds, Facebook, Orkut, Twitter, you name it. Weirdly enough the fact that no single...
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