Comments on: A SIP address for your Skype http://mrblog.org/2008/01/22/a-sip-address-for-your-skype/ Mr Blog. Very technical, or silly, sometimes absurd. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:07:07 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Mike http://mrblog.org/2008/01/22/a-sip-address-for-your-skype/comment-page-1/#comment-5136 Mike Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:08:22 +0000 http://mrblog.televolution.net/?p=371#comment-5136 More agreement that it is skype who should be providing the routing to SIP, the industry-standard, not the other way around. It was the skype founders who deliberately chose to take a proprietary method, and only their sales/marketing strategies that have made it adopted by so many. However, despite the numbers of skype members these pales into insignificance when compared to the number of SIP devices and services being used worldwide. More agreement that it is skype who should be providing the routing to SIP, the industry-standard, not the other way around.
It was the skype founders who deliberately chose to take a proprietary method, and only their sales/marketing strategies that have made it adopted by so many. However, despite the numbers of skype members these pales into insignificance when compared to the number of SIP devices and services being used worldwide.

]]> By: MrBlog http://mrblog.org/2008/01/22/a-sip-address-for-your-skype/comment-page-1/#comment-799 MrBlog Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:29:54 +0000 http://mrblog.televolution.net/?p=371#comment-799 I couldn't agree more, particularly "So I would never have to switch on Skype again." Why doesn't Skype simply offer a 'forward to my SIP address' option? Of course we know why. They want to keep everyone contained in their world. They say it's because Skype users don't want interoperability - if you are a Skype user, maybe it's time to tell them, not me. I agree with you! :) I couldn’t agree more, particularly "So I would never have to switch on Skype again." Why doesn’t Skype simply offer a ‘forward to my SIP address’ option? Of course we know why. They want to keep everyone contained in their world. They say it’s because Skype users don’t want interoperability – if you are a Skype user, maybe it’s time to tell them, not me. I agree with you! :)

]]> By: tom http://mrblog.org/2008/01/22/a-sip-address-for-your-skype/comment-page-1/#comment-798 tom Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:33:08 +0000 http://mrblog.televolution.net/?p=371#comment-798 I have to say I agree with Markus about being reachable via skype on my sip phones. platforms like fring an dbarablu host your skype clients on there servers and forward to your cell phone when calls come in. No one is offer a similar service that sends to any SIP URI instead a proprietary platform on a cell phone.<br /> <br /> spg<br /> <br /> p.s. there is one way(hack?) to do this if you are a voxeo developer(accounts are free). voxeo has inbound skype numbers pointing to every IVR application on the free hosted developer platform. these applications can forward through to a SIP URI. I have to say I agree with Markus about being reachable via skype on my sip phones. platforms like fring an dbarablu host your skype clients on there servers and forward to your cell phone when calls come in. No one is offer a similar service that sends to any SIP URI instead a proprietary platform on a cell phone.

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p.s. there is one way(hack?) to do this if you are a voxeo developer(accounts are free). voxeo has inbound skype numbers pointing to every IVR application on the free hosted developer platform. these applications can forward through to a SIP URI.

]]> By: Markus G http://mrblog.org/2008/01/22/a-sip-address-for-your-skype/comment-page-1/#comment-797 Markus G Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:56:11 +0000 http://mrblog.televolution.net/?p=371#comment-797 I would prefer it the other way around: that Skype rings my SIP address. So I would never have to switch on Skype again. <br /> <br /> I have all my SIP accounts nicely consolidated to ring my phone or my cell phone. I could do the same with Google Talk, Yahoo and MSN.<br /> <br /> Only on Skype I am nearly never reachable because I don't like communications that force me to switch my computer on. <br /> <br /> That's why Skype is Oldschool to me. VoIP has left the PC world long ago and goes along with me. I would prefer it the other way around: that Skype rings my SIP address. So I would never have to switch on Skype again.

I have all my SIP accounts nicely consolidated to ring my phone or my cell phone. I could do the same with Google Talk, Yahoo and MSN.

Only on Skype I am nearly never reachable because I don’t like communications that force me to switch my computer on.

That’s why Skype is Oldschool to me. VoIP has left the PC world long ago and goes along with me.

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