{"id":25122,"date":"2016-01-16T00:52:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T22:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=25122"},"modified":"2016-01-16T00:54:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T22:54:11","slug":"appear-in-your-friendly-skype-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/16\/appear-in-your-friendly-skype-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"appear.in – your friendly Skype replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Every day some new super hyped web service is born, and every other day some old web service is decommissioned. It’s been going on for so long, that rarely do I pay much attention to these things. \u00a0I need a few recommendations. I want to hear excitement. I want to hear why and how this can be useful to me. \u00a0A mere press release doesn’t cut it.<\/p>\n

Today, I was recommended a service that is so easy and useful that it blew my mind. \u00a0Ladies and gentlemen, I give you appear.in<\/a> . \u00a0Think of the all the good things Skype is, without all the bad things that come with it. \u00a0Video, voice, and text chat, screen sharing, free, multiple participants (up to 8), private and public conversations, excellent voice and video quality, and no installation of software necessary – works right out of the browser, even on the mobile.<\/p>\n

\"appear.in\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s so easy and fun to use that I’ve spent most of the day chatting to my colleagues even when they were in the same room. \u00a0We had two and three way conversations with screen sharing and text messages (handy for the URLs) and it worked really well.<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, the only thing that I didn’t see (maybe it’s there and maybe it’s not) is file transfer. \u00a0But there are so many different ways these days to send a file that I don’t worry about that too much. \u00a0A quality video chat with screen sharing is a different ball game altogether.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Every day some new super hyped web service is born, and every other day some old web service is decommissioned. It’s been going on for so long, that rarely do I pay much attention to these things. \u00a0I need a few recommendations. I want to hear excitement. I want to hear why and how this … Continue reading appear.in – your friendly Skype replacement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"appear.in - your friendly Skype replacement #video #chat #IM #communications #skype #WebWork","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[90,2295,1035,391],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-25122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-communications","tag-instant-messaging","tag-skype","tag-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9919,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/02\/16\/more-on-skype\/","url_meta":{"origin":25122,"position":0},"title":"More on Skype","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Let me do a little side note, before I start - Mom, you should really read this post! :) Now, just a couple of days ago I wrote that I decided to try Skype. 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