GREAT ADAPTATIONS

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Today’s blog is an addendum to my Examiner post. On Mondays, once or twice a month, I do a post called “Jack’s Times.” Jack is our new family member, born June 1st, 2008. I’m interested in how technology is bubbling up right now, and how our engagement in it will affect what Jack will be using in a few years.

You can see the post here: Web 55.0 Examiner.

In the post, I mentioned the transition from using landlines in our homes to other options, especially Skype. Here I’ll go into a little more detail about how that works.

Skype is a free program which allows you to make free VoIP (”Voice over Internet protocol”) calls worldwide between Skype subscribers. Even if none of your friends have a Skype account, you can still call anyone worldwide over regular landlines for a rate that is much lower than those charged by telephone companies.

Neat!

Skype has a bunch of other features that people are making great use of, including instant messaging, file transfer and video conferencing.

Here’s my own learning curve. I’m exploring how I will connect to my online world (you) while I travel. I’ll be writing from France, from Australia, and who knows where in between. My dream is to be able to do all my tasks, my writing, blogging, responding – all of it – by voice command. This is going to require some leaps out of my current devices, and even how I think about my communication. Are any of my readers using dictation software? Chime in about that.

And how about Skype or any other phone alternatives? Fill us in about your experiences in that department.

You can use the link below to check out Skype. Hurry up! I want to start doing teleconferences, and we’ll be using Skype so we can all talk together.