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Skype Prime™ Beta —Not ready for prime time?

By jason on Mar 7, 2007 in Opinion

I’ve been using Skype 3.1 beta and just read about the release of the newer beta with the addition of Prime. You can charge clients for voice and video calls kind of a Skype consulting option. I think this is a great idea but only one thing is missing- shared desktop. This exists in the current version of Skype but its an add-on you must have on both sides and it costs extra.

I use Skype to talk to friends around the world and I’m often asked for assistance in everything from I can’t print to how do I set up an adwords campaign. I usually want to access the remote persons desktop and while I’m on video chat move the cursor on their screen in their browser setting up or fixing whatever they have requested. This introduces all sorts of problems like can I get thru your firewall?

There are some excellent add-ons to Skype that work great that I have tried on a limited basis but it requires a subscription and the client installed on both sides.

Are you listening Microsoft I know your ears are burning- all those windows users have remote access and instant messenger built into windows. Is this feature coming in the next version of instant messenger and could it be (gasp!) cross platform with the mac. I hope so I love Skype and think its great and going to come out with all sorts of great features in the future but including shared desktop with the client or bundling it with a third party solution would be a killer app. Why pay for something built into Windows and Vista

Skype Prime™ Beta — introducing the global expertise marketplace:

Today, we put out an update of Skype 3.1 beta for Windows. Download here. It contains the typical bugfixes and such from the previous release — thanks to everyone who’s been helping us with the reports. Keep them coming.

In this version, though, there’s one new feature that deserves more attention, since I believe it is really important, interesting, useful and fun. That’s a lot, I know. But bear with me. The feature is Skype Prime Beta. And I think it’s one of the most important innovative things that Skype has put out in quite a while.

What is Skype Prime?

In short, it enables paid Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls. You can charge other people for calling you either a one-off fee or by the minute. Conversely, if you are the caller, you can call experts who charge for their services, and you can then pay the fee and access the expertise that the other call party provides.

Prime call

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