Skype4 Biz online SKYPE business resource for saving money

Apple iPhone 4 launched FaceTime as one of the new features exclusively for the latest iPhone.
This feature allows video calling over WiFi with video in video facility and the ability to switch
between the two built in cameras the front camera allows face to face or use the reverse camera
on the back to create point of view shots.

Camera switching is done with one simple tap.

Skype who already offers video calling for the Nokia N900 over 3G, plus an iPhone app.
FaceTime would be great if video weren’t just over a Wi-Fi hotspot. Skype are interested in working
FaceTime to how it works and can be implemented and used. Skype set up in 2003 has been offering
the voice and video calling over the internet for years together with various video supported handsets.

See Youtube video here.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/facetime.html

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/33388/skype-2-iphone-app-3g

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/33115/skype-adds-group-video-calling

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/33011/skype-set-to-include-adverts

This web jam cam music video was shot for Sour’s ‘Hibi no Neiro’ (Tone of everyday) from their first mini album ‘Water Flavor EP’. The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam.

This shows how crowdsourcing of fans can lead to creating a music video through social media combined with user generated content.

This video I came across via http://www.youtube.com/Creativeheads a competition for looking at creative work that are judged by Youtube users.

This is another Youtube web cam video jam I also found tell what you think.

Lucky television owners with Skype enable TV sets can watch the World Cup with Skype and share the experience.

Through the use of webcams supporting High Defintion video calling with specially-designed microphones letting users/viewers make calls from the comfort of their sofa, without having to move closer to the TV or shout.

With upto 5 million Skype enable tv sets due out this year, check out LG, Panasonic and Samsung sites for more info.

This now gives a realtime and added value experience to watching tv similar to that of the internet where people could either IM (instant message), tweet or engage in a web video chat.

Now the possibility of a video conference one to one, group to group, family to family or friends to friends is a real possibility over the tv set. With Cross Skype on the biggest screen with upto four Skype users you have the best video conferencing experience that’s available to the average consumer.

So even fans from different countries through Skype and can share and comment in realtime with each other.

Skype enabled TV video segment.

Youtube video by the Scobleizer on Skype TV on a LG HD set.

Panasonic demo including a Skype conversation.

Read the Skype On Your TV Is Now Possible article by Alex Wilhelm.

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/05/18/skype-on-your-tv-is-now-possible-check-out-how/

Share and retweet on twitter this link.
http://twitter.com/home?status=RT+@hdproductionz+Watch+the+World+Cup+On+Skype+http://bit.ly/getSkypeTV

This video by Jonathan Gunson, gives some very simple advice on maximising your online business opportunities and lists some creative ways of driving traffic to your website.

Easy to follow video just over 3 minutes in length, see below.

Skype, Twitter,Google and Facebook are some of the social media brands, that have now become the defacto methods of real time news, information and communication sources about the Haitian earthquake.

They are bringing up to the minute information, raising awareness and sharing communication amongst the world media, connecting the Haitian diaspora from around the world and providing a constant news feed for the worlds media organisations.

Haiti is benefitting from social media platforms that are providing much needed donations, funds, contributions, plus various support enabling the co-ordination of relief effects in the country.

Below are some examples of social media, in terms of reporting, raising awareness, donation of funds and news commentary.

Missionary Skypes from Haiti

The Hands and Feet Project’s Mark Stuart on CNN from Jacmel, Haiti.
Mark Stuart gives a live news interview on CNN via Skype, talking about the work with orphan
children and childcare issues from the earthquake-striken Jacmel in Haiti.
More information about the the Hand and Feet project can seen here www.hafproject.org

Youtube Bruce Springsteen – Hope For Haiti performance

George Clooney on on ‘Hope for Haiti’ Telethon Youtube Video

Tech tools tell the story of earthquake in Haiti
http://www.techworld.com.au/article/332380/tech_tools_tell_story_earthquake_haiti

Haitan man saved by Twitter makes the front page of a UK newspaper.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2822899/Haiti-man-saved-by-Twitter.html

Google, Skype Offer Free Haiti Calls
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_skype_offer_free_haiti_calls_-_can_anybody.php

Have a look at realtime Skype Haiti updates on Twitter
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=skype+haiti

EARTHQUAKE HAITI is on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=245712178935

Survey: 39% of Facebook Users Have Donated to Haitian Relief
http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2010/01/25/survey-39-facebook-users-have-donated-haitian-relief

Seven Year Old Boy Raises Thousands For Haiti

BBC Video New Segment
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8477345.stm

Online News Article
http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/seven-year-old-boy-raises-thousands-haiti

Just Giving Website
http://www.justgiving.com/