The live community decided to do a Skype conference call the other night. Results were varied, but largely unintelligible (as far as I could tell). There’s just something about conference calling in Skype that doesn’t work very well – especially if more than two people are on the line. I don’t know if it’s a bandwidth limitation or a Skype shortcoming, but conference calls on Skype are never fun for me.

I guess that’s where I’m starting to rely more and more on services like Gaboogie or FreeConferencing (as recommended in earlier posts about conference calls). The infrastructure is off-site, and not contingent on local bottlenecks so much. Since starting to write more articles about conference calls, I’ve started to learn a lot more about the VoIP landscape – how large, how competitive it is.

Makes me wonder which company is going to really start running with SIP and Asterisk?