{"id":5805,"date":"2007-08-17T10:33:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T10:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/tmc-gets-some-press-2.html"},"modified":"2007-08-17T10:33:05","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T10:33:05","slug":"tmc-gets-some-press-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/tmc-gets-some-press-2.html","title":{"rendered":"TMC Gets Some Press"},"content":{"rendered":"
Having your cake and eating it too is how it think about this article<\/a> in the San Francisco Chronicle with a quote from TMC’s Tom Keating and TMC friend Om Malik. Here is an excerpt:<\/div>\n
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Tom Keating, chief technology officer for Internet Telephony Magazine, said he’s heard from a number of businesses that rely on Skype to keep workers in touch with each other as well as clients. He said the instant-messaging feature is particularly popular with users because it works around many company firewalls.<\/div>\n
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Keating said the outage may be related to some maintenance work Skype completed Wednesday night. He said it’s unlikely the problem was caused by an outside attack from hackers.<\/div>\n
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"It’s very possible that the change they did with maintenance could have had some unanticipated cascade affect," said Keating. <\/div>\n
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Technology blogger Om Malik said the failure may reveal some weaknesses in the peer-to-peer technology on which Skype relies. Normally, peer-to-peer systems work to route traffic around problems, ensuring a consistent connection. <\/div>\n
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"Venture capitalists who have been funding (peer-to-peer) services should take this as an early warning on the fragility of the whole (peer-to-peer) ecosystem, where a small glitch can cause widespread problems," Malik wrote Thursday on his blog GigaOm.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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