With the Skype outages still affecting people, it's nice to see the competition step-up.

SightSpeed, the best video calling service out there, has decided to offer anyone who signs up for an account with SightSpeed a free trial to their "Pro" service for 30 days. What does the Pro-level service offer?

• Multiparty Video Conferencing, which works really well


• Video voicemails of up to 3 minutes (free service gives you 30 seconds)


• Unlimited storage of SightSpeed videos (free service limits it to 30 days)

Either way, SightSpeed isn't affected by whatever it is that seems to have affected Skype. SightSpeed has P2P that actually works. And the video quality, well you'll just have to see it for yourself, but it beats the pants off of Skype!

Hat tip to Andy Abramson.