Skype Journal: SkypeWeb and the NewsReader

February 2, 2006 05:40 PM

Do you want to add SkypeWeb presence status to your blog feed? Now you can. With the new version released today for Windows (2.0.79) bloggers can now program their RSS feeds to reflect their presence information. With many bloggers reading posts just in newreaders providing presence information there will increase your accessability. I'll upgrade the Skype Journal feeds soon. Similarly companies like Bloglines or Feedster may want to consider returning feed results where the bloggers status is online. Who will do it first?

Call enable RSS feed with SkypeWeb (see sample)

To call enable a RSS feed with SkypeWeb you need to add the following lines to your RSS feed:


skype:bluedude?call
http://mystatus.skype.com/bluedude

Put this within the node and just below all other channel attributes. To show your status you need to replace the name bluedude with your Skype ID. SkypeWeb is not released yet so you can only test it with my name. Skype enable RSS and Podcast feeds |

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