The Onion's FCC: All Programming To Be Broadcast In ADHDTV By 2007 and Jason Striegel's How I failed the Turing test should make you laugh and think a bit. (btw, ADHD is an American English medical shorthand for Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder. btw is short for By The Way).

localglobe, a blog by Saul Klein, VP Marketing, Skype, London, is sparse but a nice start. Blog on, Saul!

Phones have always been one of the most powerful and natural social networking tools. danah boyd draws a useful distinction between Attention Networks vs. Social Networks when it comes to relationship capital. Right now eBay via Skype holds much data about where and with whom you spend your time. The Attention Trust advocates that you should have control over how that data is used. In some cases you might even be paid if your attention trail helps advertisers find you. Flipped around, your social network may be able to influence your attention. At Microsoft Research, Too Many E-Mails? SNARF Them Up! by Rob Knies describes social sorting for email, defining relevance by social distance. So emails from close friends get more attention than from mutual friends than from strangers. I can see this for reading newsfeeds. Why not SNARF ratings for inbound calls? SNARF sorts of my buddy list?

I have friends who lost their Skype accounts last week, mostly they created the accounts without sharing their email address with Skype or with a none-of-your-business fake email address. Jirong thinks this must make for a More Secure SkypeNet:

Almost all my friends, like me, got a mesage about resetting their Skype password days ago. I am lucky enough to get through the horrible experience. I was trying to make a business SkypeOut when I saw the reset dialogue. Definitely, I hate it! One of my best friend lost his account which has dozens of contact.

When I calmed myself down, I released besides the goodness I have in Skype's letter, maybe I got a more secured and trustful telephony system. Skype is eBay's baby and Versign is eBay's newer buy. There must be some deal under the table. So my bet is SkypeNet is a Versign Trusted Network! Third-party authentication is very important for Skype to enter the business world. Wondering when they are going to publicize this deal.