{"id":6757,"date":"2008-04-08T16:53:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T16:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/messy-skype-presence-solution.html"},"modified":"2008-04-08T16:53:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T16:53:14","slug":"messy-skype-presence-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/messy-skype-presence-solution.html","title":{"rendered":"Messy Skype Presence Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/picture-presence.jpg\" \/>Its funny, I spend so much time writing about solutions for service providers and enterprise customers that when I come across a do it yourself (DIY) solution allowing you to keep tabs on your Skype friends without the use of a computer, I turn up my nose.<\/p>\n<p>Is that bad? I am not sure. But what I know for certain is that this new idea is really great if not a bit messy. By having a picture frame with multiple photos in it you can watch each of your friends and see what they are up to. Are they online? Are they away?<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me me of the text to speech application that came with one of the Scala bluetooth headsets I reviewed a while back. It integrated with Skype and whenever one of my contacts came online, it announced the fact to me.<\/p>\n<p>It took me a few days to figure out that this noise emanating from my laptop had to do with Skype. No I am not kidding. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mtstatic\/FCKeditor\/emoticons\/embaressed_smile.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But I digress. If you try this project out and get it working, drop me a line.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/377430\/picture-frame-shows-which-of-your-im-and-skype-friends-are-online\">gizmodo<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its funny, I spend so much time writing about solutions for service providers and enterprise customers that when I come across a do it yourself (DIY) solution allowing you to keep tabs on your Skype friends without the use of a computer, I turn up my nose. Is that bad? I am not sure. But<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,199,203,118,177,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}