Bill Campbell is in Ottawa this week. Phil Wolff and Stuart Henshall are at VON San Jose, mostly. Skype us for drinks, meals, interviews. I chuckled when I saw the Skyptopus but the isolatr beta gave me a belly laugh.

True or False: Skype is to Telcos as Craigslist is to Newspapers. The huge US Knight-Ridder newspaper publisher, starving and in debt, sells its papers to a smaller chain. A mature industry nibbles away at fixed costs and while disruptive services steal or obsolete revenue sources.

Skype's Geoffery Prentice goes to Taiwan. How long until Skype opens up component certification in Taipei? As long as we're talking Taiwan, PChome Online released their version of Skype v2.0. Also with SkypeRing for customization, "Skype phone yellow pages" (shades of eBay?), interactive voice response (TellMe?) and business solutions (Skype.biz or more?). PChome is exactly the type of active partner Skype needs, stretching Skype's business programs to meet user needs.