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Skype: "Skype is the next phenomenon from the people who brought you KaZaA. Just like KaZaA, Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you to other users – not to share files this time, but to talk for free with your friends.

The technology is extremely advanced - but super simple to use... You’ll be making perfect quality free phone calls to your friends in no time! Just tell them to get Skype as well, if they don’t already have it."

jaynote: This got good reviews on Sept 16, 2003 at Jeff Duntemann's Diary which I've looked at every few years. Visiting Lancaster's site reminded me of Duntemann.
From his site:
I'm a contrarian, but a positive thinker; an optimist—always have been. When they give you lemons, other people might make lemonade. I stick electrodes in the lemons and run a transistor radio with them. The possibilities for good are endless, and pervasive. The universe seems to like human beings—and not just because they taste like chicken. It's true, however, that you have to look for good—it doesn't just jump up and wave at you—and sometimes it hides in odd places. That's why I try to preserve my contrarian outlook: It keeps me looking where others don't, and I think I've found more good in life and the universe than your average oh-so-stylish New York cynic.
And while I don't always expect you to agree with me, I would appreciate not being flamed. Everything said here is said in good humor, with the sincere desire to make the world a better place one way or another. Fraction by fraction, and (sometimes) stumble by leap, we progress. The evidence is there—if you look in the places you don't expect to find it.

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