@WhereIsBruce writes, “Hey all you Skypers – Just saw Skype will be offering 5-way video calling. Huge for global .org like SIM http://bit.ly/cvfWNi”
This will undoubtedly cause yet another revolution in how things work. The impact is that small working conferences could very likely be replaced by a cheap Skype call. The big conferences will have to differentiate by focusing on gathering large numbers, doing things together you can do in large numbers, and in introductions and spontaneous hallway conversations.
I don’t go to big conferences so much any more because (1) they are too expensive, (2) they do not make introductions to likely good contacts easy, (3) most of the people I interact with I no longer need to see at a conference – I can talk with in a cheap/free Skype call. This will only exacerbate that.
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