Skype: The ultimate collaboration tool?
13-Jul-08
Skype seems to be gently emphasising its messaging abilities at the moment as it squares up against the might of Google’s inter-operable XMPP/Jabber-based system. A recent addition to Skype’s portfolio is persistent public “chat rooms”. Apart from the same stuff that chat rooms have long been used for, the wide adoption of Skype in corporate settings may offer some more interesting uses.
Here’s an article about using Skype chat rooms for a kind of Virtual shared office space to improve communication in distributed teams.