Skype Blogs

On the weekend of June 18-19, the Skype team had two concurrent outing events in different parts of the world. We do have them once in a while with the engineering crew, but having two at the same time doesn't… Read more

[cottee.org](http://cottee.org/?p=163) re-posted one of [zobbo's photos from flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/zobbo/21864649/) regarding the remake of skype.com, and there was a comment by [Roger](http://www.ralsite.net/) there that caught my eye. Heh! And there was me thinking that they just made up these endorsements!… Read more

[An interesting use of Skype and SkypeIn to broadcast anonymous calls to public audiences.](http://www.onefreeminute.net/) Kind of like Internetized version of [Hyde Park Speakers' Corner](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speakers%27_Corner). The operator of the service (artist?) says he's looking for some help with further customizing and… Read more

We've made some improvements on blogs.skype.com over the past days. Many of them because you asked for it. Anything else you need? * **capacity upgrade.** At times during the past few weeks, the site was unresponsive or even down at… Read more

Today's Featured Staff is Dirk who works as a mobile tester in Skype's Quality Assurance group. These people make sure that our releases work as expected and don't contain any nasty bugs. Also, they work with technologies and features that… Read more

Another cool hack. [Use DittyBot and Skype to access your iTunes collection from any cellphone](http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000420047100/). Apparently it's easy to script such stuff up on a Mac and here's a challenge for Windows and Linux devs. (If you're fast enough, you… Read more

Today, we hit the 10 billion Skype-to-Skype call minutes served mark at around 18:00 GMT. Let's recap. Skype was released in August 2003. We hit 1 billion minutes served somewhere in July 2004. Now, it's 10 billion minutes in June… Read more

Skyping in airplanes is already becoming old news. [Lenn](http://lennpryor.blogs.com) is at this moment somewhere high above Siberia on his way to Japan and I chatted with him from the comfort of my home. As wifi on airplanes is becoming a… Read more

There's an amazing variety of [photos on Flickr on Skype](http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/skype/). Here's [a recent one](http://www.flickr.com/photos/gjw1/19729681/). Would have called him (her? it?) to do an interview but the Skype Name doesn't seem to have been published. For the dogs running around our… Read more

It has been brought to our attention, both through firsthand experience and people like [James](http://eurotelcoblog.blogspot.com/2005/06/vskype-early-experience-following.html), that the vskype video add-on for Skype may send unwanted chat messages to people on your contact list. Pay extra attention to what buttons you… Read more