Real-timing Social Networks:
Jyve begins the process of "real-timing" social networking sites. When I go onto a website where I want to connect with others I don't want to wait for e-mail messages to be exchanged. While on many sites there are so few people online that there's nobody I'd be likely to want to talk to. Jyve WebTools have the potential to shake it all up and solve the Lavalife problem. Lavalife claim 8 million registered users and yet only 2000+ are likely to be online at any one time. Jyve creates the potential to connect with people who have registered for a site and yet aren't currently logged in. With Jyve presence activated you can get messages from people who are looking at your profile right now. Exchanges can become "real-time" with voice. Whether for dating, translations, meeting other people or for talking about specific topics, Jyve provides the potential for websites to make their profile directories more active. Just go to Jyve and see what I mean. Go to Jyve

What Jyve WebTools do:
Jyve is pioneering a new series of website interaction opportunities for Skype visitors. Advanced buttons enable Skypers to send voice messages, open text chats and even create conference calls just by clicking buttons you can add simply to your webpages. The same program also allows you to share your presence information. From "online" to "away" or "in a call", finally presence indicators on webpages are beginning to have meaning.

For Charles and the development team at Jyve they are the first with a stable scalable Skype presence product. Congratulations! I'm personally hoping that Skype pays real attention to the presence opportunity. I'm afraid that they will think short term and go after centralizing and providing their own presence servers. Instead where we really need the effort is in the Presence API and tying it to the SkypeOut account. In the meantime download Jyve and share the word. Go to the Jyve community and see them in action. This should give you some ideas of what a true Skype Interactive website could include. You now can also have the same functionality on your website.

Please explain Web tools and how to use them:
The web tools are a set of buttons that you can add to your website that make your site Skype Interactive. People can now imitate a Skype communication with you or each other through your website. There are buttons for Instant Messaging, Voice Mail and Calling as well as other useful Skype functions.

How do I get started?
You install the plug-in (1 Meg), takes 5 seconds. And you can interact with any site that has the advanced Jyve-Skype buttons. With the Plugin installed, you now can broadcast your Presence to any website you choose simply by adding your button to the site:

What do I have to do to get my Presence working?
Nothing! The moment you install the Jyve Plugin, your Presence starts working. And it updates in real-time. You have the ability to turn it On/Off as well as broadcast a different Presence to the web than you do to your Friends.

Note: Jyve is a program like other SkypeAPI programs which have access to all the data tranmitted though the SkypeAPI. Jyve WebTools currently update the Jyve server only with changes in your presence information.