Do you want to add SkypeWeb presence status to your blog feed? Now you can. With the new version released today for Windows (2.0.79) bloggers can now program their RSS feeds to reflect their presence information. With many bloggers reading posts just in newreaders providing presence information there will increase your accessability. I'll upgrade the Skype Journal feeds soon. Similarly companies like Bloglines or Feedster may want to consider returning feed results where the bloggers status is online. Who will do it first?

Call enable RSS feed with SkypeWeb (see sample)

To call enable a RSS feed with SkypeWeb you need to add the following lines to your RSS feed:


skype:bluedude?call
http://mystatus.skype.com/bluedude

Put this within the node and just below all other channel attributes. To show your status you need to replace the name bluedude with your Skype ID. SkypeWeb is not released yet so you can only test it with my name. Skype enable RSS and Podcast feeds |

Will the SixApart TypePad hosted blogging service integrate SkypeWeb into their comments system when Skype finally releases their extended presence solution? I've blogged the benefits previously of integrating a Skype identity component with blog comments. Similarly, by creating a www.CommentPings.com to register blog comments, commenters would no longer lose the networking value of their comments as they become searchable. Skype-to-comments would also create the opportunity to introduce solutions for audio comments etc.

SkypeWeb is a new feature of Skype 2.0 that allows Skype users to display their Skype online status on a Web page, email, blog, any other HTML enabled content or any other Internet-enabled application.
 - Skype Developer Zone Blog!

Could SixApart abandon TypeKey in favor of Skype user authentication? Short term, that is probably a longshot. However, this blog would adopt "skype names" as an authentication approach in an instant. It would improve the opportunity for dialogue and offer the opportunity for multichats on any post to be opened (for those that "tick" add me to the multi-chat discussion on this post).

We know there have been discussions between both parties, while recently Skype moved their blogs to SixApart's MovableType platform. It continues to use Skype as its log-in authentication for commenters. Adding Skype authentication adds value. There are some management issues... like authentication to your Skype client rather than the Skype server that would be required.

Typepad and the blogger would get both the advantage of a profile and a more personalized way to arrange contact. It would also provide more opportunities for "commenters" on the same post or blog to introduce themselves. Something current systems with hidden e-mail addresses don't allow.

SkypeWeb, announced last year, will be launched officially in a few weeks. For now you can sign up for the beta at the Skype Developer Blog which will give you access to basic details.

That's enough speculation for tonight.

Hi, I'm Phil Wolff, Editor of Skype Journal.

We're spread thin covering the revolution. Can you help?

We're the romantics and the cynics, the engineers and the coolhunters. And we're building a publication with a large and loyal following. (681k pages served in September, and growing rapidly since we started in March 2005).

If you can find news and make sense of it, we need you.

If you can take the complex and make it seem obvious, we need you.

If you have a vision for the impact of Skype on technology, society, and business, we need you.

Specifically...

If these beats interest you, please email me: editor at skype journal dot com. Or Skype me at evanwolf.

• Skype Developer Guides - Help us top our famous Skype Journal Guide : Learning Skype’s Plug-In Architecture with updates, broader coverage of the Skype API and translations
  
• Skype product updates - latest releases and what they mean
  
• Skype business ecology - updates on companies building business on or with Skype
  
• Skype for mobile platforms - embedded, smartphones, wifi and other wireless environments
  
• The Skype APIs and anything affecting code warriors
  
• Regulatory affairs - especially now that Luxembourgian Skype is becoming owned by Californian eBay.
  
• Competitor watch - telecom, IM, and others
  
• Investor concerns - explain and uncover how Skype contributes to eBay's bottom line, or not
  
• Skype developer forums - buzz watch and advocate
  
• Ebay developer forums - buzz watch and advocate
  
• Skype software how-to's and tips - help users make the most of their Skype
  
• Skype/VoIP security beat - rigor is the login, public safety the password, and the public key is ... too long for this post
  
• Skype commerce/retailing - Dig up the best tools and techniques for selling more with better conversation
  
• Ebayification of Skype and the Skypification of Ebay - follow the changes to the products and companies as they continue to grow, to influence each other, and to create new kinds of value
  
• User stories - How people use Skype in the real world
  

• Editorial intern - Help us write a style guide, admin comments, and stay on top of our editorial calendar
  
• Newsletter editor - Round up each week's posts for our mailing list
  
• Foreign correspondents - Translate your blog posts into English for Skype Journal and Skype Journal posts into your language. Must have three correspondents to create a sister SJ site.
  
• Art/Design/Web director - Ongoing improvement to our designs and sites

Is Skype "social media"? My belief is YES! What's more I believe VoIP and Video are about to reframe the whole social media world. Still the other world isn't there yet. They are still struggling to catch up with blogs and how to make money and spread the message in a world where traditional economics are being overturned. I figure if you are reading Skype Journal then you already know something about blogs and Skyping. Chances are you have seen a social networking service or two. Still the social side is about behavior.

This time next week I will be at Blogon. I'm going to see some of those big company people. How one spreads the word is an interesting topic. For my part, I'll be interested to know what advice they promote to companies to retain a supportive blogger community.

Learn how to use social media to create more meaningful conversations with your customers..... hear how major companies such as AOL, Chrysler, ESPN, McDonald's, SIRIUS Satellite Radio, Sprint, Sun Microsystems, Unilever and Yahoo! are using social media for business advantage.

Social media is changing the way companies interact with customers and employees. The challenge is how to keep abreast of developments: What applications are emerging? Which companies are breaking new ground? BlogOn 2005 - The Business of Social Media

Let me know if you are going to be there. I'll also be in New York the following week.