Jolicloud 1.1 Just Released, And Says, "The future is here. It’s not evenly distributed yet."

#Jolicloud 1.1 Just Released http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
After writing about it, we downloaded and and ran Jolicloud on a USB stick. It booted up perfectly on my notebook and on my netbooks, without a hitch. I am yet to try that on my 6 core desktop machine.
But the Jolicloud is telling us today that anyone with a suitable computer, which ranges from dual core centrinos to Atom 330 machines in our case, can get their hands on the Jolicloud 1.1 OS. The new Jolicloud brings a  number of improvements over Jolicloud version 1.0, such as the brand new HTML5 desktop, and a simplified login process using Facebook Connect, a faster UI, and tweaks that promise to bring better performance and battery life compared to the previous version.

• Dashboard customization with beautiful background images
• Simplified access to the computer settings
• Ability to add any local app to your desktop from a Jolicloud device
• Faster sign up and login using Facebook Connect
• Improved user interface design

Jolicloud promises to update version 1.0 clients soon but if you would rather not wait, you can download it from Jolicloud.

Skype Facebook Seeks Deep Integration!

#Facebook Connect Skype http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
All things Digital's Kara Swisher is telling us that there are plans under way to bring Facebook and Skype together with deep roots holding the users and companies together. Things must be good at Skype because they just announced the Skype Connect Avaya deal.
The Facebook Skype alliance will among other business deals, will include SMS integration, voice chat, and Facebook Connect. I see video chat (Conferencing?)as well, see the image below!

With so many people spending their net time on facebook, it will be pretty attractive to send SMS without getting up from Poker game :) or talk to another player online during the games, make real poker buddies. Unlike the facephone,  facebook is not telling us that it is not looking to develop Facebook VoIP system and perhaps this is for the facephone, The Facebook Phone.
I can see that Skype and facebook stand to gain from the deal as 560 million Skype users and 500 million Facebook members should at least make those numbers close to 750 million each!
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