Fred+Davis+S-Curve+Wk6

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Many thanks. Fred

Fred, The 30 Million Skype users are both paying and non-paying customers. I use Sype as a non-paying customer so I just have the basic service on my laptop. I was just wondering if there are more non-paying customers. In the late 1990's I participated in standards work on the use of voice and video over IP which is now Skype. Nice job!

Val

Hi Val, I was intrigued by the numbers I came across from [], and the reference noted an advisory that the numbers were volatile. While this was obvious to me, I gleaned from the material that Skype and videotelephony are moving up the S-Curve, thus the growing numbers. I currently use both Skype and Logitech Vid for telecommunication purposes, and this videotelephony is one of the innovations I see as the future in electronic journalism. Like You Tube, Facebook, Twitter, and their social media cousins, these technologies have allowed broadcast journalism, in particular, to get news and newsmakers quickly on the air, without costly news crews being dispatched from home base. The technology also has helped to shrink the so-called global community. The downside of these technologies, and particularly in the case of Skype and Logitech Vid, is that the video and audio will have to rise to the quality of high definition. It is not there, yet. But the technologies are helping electronic journalism keep pace with the 24/7 news cycle that just a few years ago was an eight-hour news cycle, largely created and dominated by radio and TV. Broadcasting's dominance continues to this day, but the new stars on the block are the Internet and social media.

Thanks for commenting on my material, Val.

Fred

Fred,

Your graph appears to be made of a good sampling of data. Will you also be including a more standard viewable graph including labeled x and y-axes?

Jason