Virginia Tech killer had a 98.5 percent eBay rating. As if we didn't know that "commerce trust" is different than trusting someone with your children. (AP)

Skype not in the new Sidekick iD. AIM, Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger built in to this $99 IM gadget. Isn't Skype a fit for this demographic?

Skype cheaper than Vonage if you can program a VCR. Side-by-side price breakdown.

My Mother Uses Skype - Why Bother With Standards? Video of panel discussion at Spring VON 2007 with Jonathan Christensen, Skype R&D executive. A frank discussion on standards where, surprisingly, the open sourcerers rallied behind Skype's closed solutions.

Google buys Skype-like features. Continuing to triangulate on the workplace, the GTalk team bought Swedish Marratech's VoIP voice conferencing, multi-party video, and whiteboard. Will scaling to Google-sized userbases be a challenge? 

London PowerPoint Karaoke Night. "Five or more brave people get to present slides they have never seen and hopefully have no clue about." Wish I could be there.