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

"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?

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

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.

Shot around July 2004. Photo by Blake Burris.

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.