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Projection: Skype could hit a $1Billion Run Rate in 2010, originally uploaded by PhilWolff.

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A shot of the Skype booth in the Apple pavilion at MacWorld 2008 in Moscone Center South in San Francisco.

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"A kiss for Enrico from his Nonna... Our grandson Enrico in the U.S. (and his generation), will never remember not being able to have a video conversation with his grandparents half-way around the world in Italy. Now, if Skype would only invent a "hug" button!"
- Rick Pappas

In the banner close-up you cannot tell who is virtual and who is real. Does it matter?

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Daphne Lu took this photo at a summer 2007 PCHome event in Taiwan.

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Who do I know and how do they know each other? Facebook's contact-list transparency lets software construct maps of those relationships.

In this "Friendwheel" visualization, people are around the edge of a circle and their connections with each other are shown by lines. Line colors on this chart are arbitrary.

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Froda of hoistnow.com took this photo right before eBay bought Skype.

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Shot around July 2004. Photo by Blake Burris.

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Skype is running a contest: take a picture of yourself as your favorite Skype emoticon and win a prize. Boyan Yurukov's full collection, about 28. in all. Boyan lives in Пловдив, Bulgaria.

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I'm always fascinated by the avatars people use in Skype. Here are some of mine.

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Digital Lifesytle Day 2007.  

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Potential design for the Reef9 Media Corporation blog banner.

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Image reversed. By Irish TypePad.

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