{"id":553,"date":"2005-06-06T06:18:53","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T11:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=553"},"modified":"2005-06-06T06:18:53","modified_gmt":"2005-06-06T11:18:53","slug":"skype-omania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/skype-omania\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype-omania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skype.com\/\">Skype<\/a> is on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/nation_world\/story\/2477350p-8881746c.html\">the front page of the News and Observer<\/a> this morning! A long<br \/>\narticle from the Washington Post is carried mostly whole in the Raleigh<br \/>\npaper. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/06\/03\/AR2005060301520_2.html\">Here&#8217;s the original article from the Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few interesting numbers from the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30% of Skype&#8217;s customers are businesses<\/li>\n<li>Skype gets more new customers in a single week than Vonage has in total<br \/>\nfor its entire life as a company<\/li>\n<li>Skype has 171 employees; Verizon landlines has 142,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be on the way to and in DC. Skype me as <strong>smalljones<\/strong>. I loved catching up  with Mark McCarthy in Sudan via Skype.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skype is on the front page of the News and Observer this morning! A long article from the Washington Post is carried mostly whole in the Raleigh paper. Here&#8217;s the original article from the Post. A few interesting numbers from the article: 30% of Skype&#8217;s customers are businesses Skype gets more new customers in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-general","category-information-commons","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}