IM Roadmap

ahh.  Just for fun, thought we’d take a trip on the wayback machine …. http://skypejournal.com/blog/archives/2005/09/skypes_product.php.  On a related note, this appears to be a good (and less stale) introductory text.  Don’t let the title put you off.

To date, I’m still partial to Vonage.  Colleagues and friends at the other end of a Skype call have too poor of connections for my taste.  However, toys like this could persuade me otherwise:

(full disclosure:  I’m a pretty rabid Panasonic fan.  As I look around at years of accumulated gadgets, it’s the Panasonic stuff that lasts the longest in my experience).