The Skype Qik messaging app follows trends from video chat to spontaneous deletion<article>
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<p>On Turesday, Skype debuted Skype Qik, a “spontaneous” video chat app that allows you to fire off video messages to a group of friends, react to them, and rest easy in the fact that they’ll disappear in two weeks’ time.</p><p>That may seem like a mouthful, but that’s about the only way to differentiate an instant messaging app these days. Even labels like “instant messaging” and “chat” and “anonymous chat” and “video communications” are becoming meaningless as apps evolve and absorb the features of their competitors.</p><figure class="large "><a class="zoom" href="
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<p>Qik’s conversation view.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2825953/skype-debuts-skype-qik-a-spontaneous-group-video-messaging-app.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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The Skype Qik messaging app follows trends from video chat to spontaneous deletion
