Leave Borat a Skype message. Part of a Skype promotion with MTV Estonia.

Turbolinux Wizpy Is First MP3/Linux Player. Skype included.

The Six Biggest New Ideas In Chat by Nick Gonzalez for Techcrunch.
1. Interoperability.
2. In-browser chat.
3. Location based chat.
4. Flexible identities.
5. Contextual chat.
6. Rich media chat.

Marshall Kirkpatrick leaves TechCrunch and tells how he scooped everyone using RSS feeds.

You missed the BlackFriday sale at AmperorDirect. big sale on Skype-related products 24-26 November.

License the new 2007 Microsoft Office UI, royalty free. What would Skype look like?

Hans Blaauw on Skype Publishing Studio for developers. "So I really think for most developers it is easy to start so expect many plugins for Skype 3.0. Probably most developers will change what they have and re-publish it." Unlike Hans, some folks can't get it to publish. Early days.

Skype + eBay + Google Local, Base and Payments, oh my! Chris Messina sees an unstoppable commerce engine building up even more momentum. "... it's curious to watch Google and Skype fight a pitched battle into telephony systems while the rest seem to be waiting and watching." And Chris doesn't mean they're fighting each other.

Jaiku Beta. Presence streaming. I so want to swap presence info in my Skype moodie, jaiku presence, and my twitter updates.

SearchSkype.net. The Unofficial Skype Chat Directory. List your Skype for Windows 3.0 Beta Public Chat here. And find others.

Skype MiniCards from Moo: "I'm also about to order a bunch of these metal tins, which are the perfect size for Moo MiniCards. I'm going to place a new order of cards to use as gifts, and I want to decorate the tops of the tins using some kind of decoupage technique." by Mamamusings. Order Moo calling cards with your Skype name, the better to pass it around at school, parties, work. The Flickr gallery of moo cards shows again the phenomenon where we make bridges between our real lives and our virtual ones. 

Every Time You Vote against Net Neutrality, Your ISP Kills a Night Elf. BoingBoing: "Net Neutrality is the idea that your ISP sends you the packets you ask for as well as it can. A non-neutral net is one where ISPs take bribes to make some services better and degrade the rest." The article explains the devastation to online gaming rising from the loss of net neutrality. Some lessons in communication for the Skype and eBay government affairs teams.