Skypest.com is a market for buying/selling Skype names. Like trading in domain names. Hmmm. Check your wallet. And start ego surfing.

Google added Skype to the free Google Pack. Excellent distribution partner. Also explains why the Google toolbar comes with the free Skype toolbar bundle.

Skype's Firefox toolbar catching some users by surprise. They're surprised because they don't notice toolbars installing with Skype 3.0 beta for Windows. (just click next.) They are happily surprised: they like the phone number hotlinking. I've been doing this since the summer of 2005 using the Skypelinkify script.

How to use a hex editor to tweak Skype. Now if I only didn't have to use a hex editor.

Debian and ubuntu linux users have a simple Skype install now. Love those .deb packages.

Business 2.0 profiles a software trainer who uses Skype. The shot of Bill Lewis Skyping his students from the Puerto Vallarta beach in his shorts. Classic. The story says entrepreneurs have new opportunities when phone service is free/cheap. Good one for Skype's PR team.

The Skypecasts service graduated from Preview to Beta. When?

SPIM (spam over instant messaging) causes Skypers to shut down calls from strangers. Can you imagine only getting email from people you already know? Phone calls? Maybe it's time to start white/grey/black lists, like for email?

PhoneBoy picks SightSpeed video over Skype 3.0. Just one data point, right?

Will Skype continue free SkypeOut calls in the US, Canada, and elsewhere in 2007? Millions want to know. A few, so they can top up their Skype accounts. Others, so they can start shopping.

Waiting for Skype to pay off for eBay. A what-happened-in-the-year-since-eBay-bought-Skype story by the International Herald Tribune's Kevin J. O'Brien. I liked Martin's quote: "Skype is in danger of becoming the Netscape of voice over Internet protocol phone companies... Skype may prove that you can be the first to innovate a piece of software but the last to find a way to make money from it." Typical Geddes, and everyone else pretty much said what you'd expect them to say.