Skype for the 8BIT Team is one of the tools that we couldn’t live without.
We conduct all of our weekly meetings with it as well as individual one-on-one’s when needed. It’s an essential tool in our toolkit and so far we’ve been pleased.
Unfortunately (or fortunately…?) we’ve been unable to see each other’s faces during these all-staff meetings which I feel would be (at times) an added bonus since we are a near 100% virtual team.
But Skype plans to release group video chat which would be a killer addition:
Currently the BETA is only available on Windows (terrible…!) but it’ll obviously come to the Mac OS soon enough.
Another downside perhaps is that it’s limited to up to 4 people, which already is too little for our team (although dropping Kyle wouldn’t be too bad…).
But for smaller teams (and obviously grandmoms and little children with overly-enthused fathers) this could be great.
If you’ve got a Windows machine, would love to hear your thoughts on how it runs!
Sweet! I’ll test it out and post a review on my blog.
I gotta admit – when you said “although dropping Kyle wouldn’t be too bad…” I LOL’d.
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Technically it supports up to 5 people (terminology says you can call 4 other people, so 5 in a chat at once). Can’t wait for this to come to the Mac, but it’s a bummer they plan on charging for it down the road (to be expected I guess).
you win.
sweet indeed.
maybe you can hook up once a month with some of us in a group chat just to see how ugly we are – lol
i need WINDOZE>
I think it’s long overdue… though I had heard they planned on having people pay for it once it was out of beta…
yeah. probably.
not on Mac? lamesauce. it’s like my prom all over again- I get all excited and ready to leave the house, the doorbell rings, and it’s the pizza guy, not my date…. only she never showed…. [tear]
Awesome. I’ve been waiting for this!
There’s always Sixrounds, it’s free and is also a google wave plugin.