Frustrated by not being able to share your online presence at your favorite social networking site? Want to add your Skype presence information and contact details to Typepad or Yahoo360 (not on Yahoo360!)? Perhaps even a business or calling card to your website or blog. Or include your contact information and online status as part of your signature in a forum or on an email.

About a year ago I wrote about a Jyve Card and have used it ever since on my personal website. When you click on the Skype Card button up pops a new window with my contact details, my online status and various ways to get in contact with me. A business card and mini profile all in one.

Click to open my Skype Card.
Which scaled down looks like this:

To get your own Skype Card, just do the following.

1)Download and Install Jyve WebTools Skype plug-in
2)After Download Jyve will start.
3)Follow this link to http://plugin.jyve.com/skypecard/
4)Fill in the form. Your current Skype profile information will already be included. You may change this if you wish.
5)Press save and copy the html at the bottom of the page onto your blog or webpage. Save. View your card. Make amendments.
6)As long as your Jyve-Skype plug-in is running your presence information will be updated on the card and on any website you choose to leave it on. For example it's on my RYZE page. Add it to a flexible platform like a wiki (sometimes you need to change the code), perhaps MSN spaces... whereever want to share your presence.
7.Manage your online Jyve presence status. Options include "in a call" disclosure and a independent status control.

The very observant will note there is a change from the first system that enabled easy and quick call back information. Messages are no longer sent to a central server. You must have Skype n Jyve installed to use the calling features.

It may have been a coincidence however yesterday I received a note from Richard Moross the founder of something called PleasureCards. I played around quickly on the site. What intigued me was the business model to get card printed. I liked less the highly structured control of the information. Still combine PleasureCards with a Jyve WebTools and some interesting new opportunities would emerge. What I'd really like for the Jyve - Skype Card is a format for creating it that mimics Google's personal page in beta. See this. http://www.google.com/ig The flexiblity to move elements around is what will really make products like these take off.