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Silverman Skypes on Oprah Show
Television personality Oprah Winfrey had been using Skype video for more than a year on her Chicago-based Oprah Show when she showed just how far she and the technology could go. On a special live edition called "Where the Skype Are You?" Oprah interviewed folks way down south at the Palmer research station in Antarctica, way down deep on the submarine USS Louisville, and way up high on a Virgin America airliner. Skype President Josh Silverman, MBA '97, joined the show from his London office to demonstrate how viewers could set up the service for themselves. Later in the show, Silverman, Oprah, and a couple of the airborne passengers Skyped over to California's Bonny Doon Vineyard for a wine tasting.