Re: GGoogle chat vs Skype

[Aaron Konstam]

That is true since I received the message in my inbox. I an including
the contents below

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
>  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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