SKY-click's web based call center went live yesterday. Skype under the covers. Salesforce.com integration. SKY-click home.

Six minute screencast of BuzzTopix Skype Social Networking. A pretty cool way to have structured, agenda-driven Skype conversations, especially with debates or other structured dialog. I can easily see this being rolled into eBay conversational markets.

iSkoot should learn from EQO as EQO continues to put its new eggs in non-Skype baskets. EQO is bringing mobility to MySpace, Friendster, and Tagworld, with  Skype doesn't yet have the US brand or marketing muscle to make North American software partners successful just by sticking a Skype Certified label on your product. Skype is building that muscle, but "Skype" isn't such a household name here that co-branding guarantees uptake. A Skype deal is necessary but not sufficient. So diversification is a good move this year.

Scary brand note. Skype calls are buggy, at least per this fake public service announcement from "Men Against Drinking and Dialing." It's only funny if you share with the commercial's director a common experience of Skype calls being unintelligible, breaking up, and cutting out. Aside from dealing with the truth about a product, how do you deal with a hostile idea that spreads? Starve a meme, man the phones? 

Skype from your television with MediaREADY set-top boxes. Florida's Video Without Borders makes money through Skype's affiliate program when users of their Internet-connected media centers download and use Skype for Linux.   

Step through an Ubuntu Linux installation with Skype. Courtesy of the Ubuntu London blog.
 
# sudo apt-get install skype

should get you going.