GGoogle chat vs Skype

[Aaron Konstam]

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On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 13:28 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> You appear to have sent this only to me and not to the list.
> 
> 
> poc
> 
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Aaron Konstam
> <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>         
>         On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 16:55 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>         > On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 16:10 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>         > > On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 15:15 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan
>         wrote:
>         > > > On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 09:43 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>         > > > > I have long been intrigued wit having Skype-like
>         capabilities for my
>         > > > > computer. I recently looked at Google Chat which seems
>         to be similar and
>         > > > > is really easy to install and use (at least on my F14
>         laptop).
>         > > > >
>         > > > > What am I missing by not using Skype?
>         > > >
>         > > > Multi-part conferencing (with the paid Skype option),
>         but see Google+
>         > > > which also supports this. It's not clear if Google Chat
>         is going to
>         > > > survive.
>         > > >
>         > > > poc
>         > > >
>         > >
>         > > Google has another product called Google Voice that does
>         all that.
>         >
>         > The focus of Google Voice is among other things allow you to
>         manage all
>         > your POTS-style services such as call forwarding, screening
>         etc. (to
>         > oversimplify somewhat). However AFAIK Google Voice was until
>         recently
>         > only available in the US (Wikipedia says it was extended to
>         some other
>         > countries in August 2011 but it's not available where I am).
>         >
>         > And I'm not aware that it has any free multi-party
>         conferencing feature,
>         > but by all means correct me if I'm wrong.
>         >
>         > poc
>         >
>         
>         
>         I am not an expert on Google Voice, but from what I can gather
>         from the
>         book, "Google Voice for Dummies" Google Voice can do
>         multi-party
>         conferencing. My impression is these services are not free.
>         The book implies it can be used in countries other than the US
>         (on cell
>         phones at least) but the quality of service is worse than in
>         the US.
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