Skype from Second Life

Written by Skype Journal on December 1st, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and ebay and developers and presence and Tips & Tricks.

Skype status in Second Life: The race for web services

Written by Skype Journal on November 18th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and VoIP and Google and Microsoft and yahoo and AOL and ebay and developers and presence and Technology and Developer Zone and Technology and skypejournal and wishlist and Marketing and counterpoints and complaints.

Memo to Skype Phone Product Managers

Written by Skype Journal on November 7th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and VoIP and ebay and skypeout and developers and presence and Technology and Developer Zone and Skype API and Technology and skypeapi and skypejournal and design and Skype Partner Watch and Every Post and observations and Certification and Tips & Tricks.

TalkPlus - Voice 2.0 of Mobile and The Skype Story

Written by Skype Journal on October 31st, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and VoIP and Software and ebay and skypeout and developers and presence and Technology and Skype API and Technology and skypeapi and skypejournal and Skype News and Skype Partner Watch and Every Post and observations and Ideas & Views.

Skype on Mobile: Status Report - October 2006

Written by Skype Journal on October 31st, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and VoIP and Products and ebay and skypeout and presence and Technology and Technology and skypejournal and Skype News and Every Post and observations and Ideas & Views.

Efimova: From blogs to Skyping, escalating conversations

Written by Skype Journal on October 24th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Uncategorized and Skype and VoIP and ebay and developers and presence and Technology and Technology and skypejournal and observations and statistics.

Seeking a Level Four Skype Interconnection

Written by Skype Journal on October 10th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and VoIP and Products and SIP and ebay and skypeout and presence and Technology and Skype API and Technology and skypeapi and skypejournal and design and SkypeIn.

Adobe flashes on VoIPifying the web

Written by Skype Journal on September 22nd, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and VoIP and Business and Microsoft and SIP and ebay and presence and Technology and Developer Zone and Skype杂志 and Technology and skypejournal and design and wishlist and Skype Partner Watch.

Will I use (Skype) Chat or email?

Written by Skype Journal on September 20th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and VoIP and ebay and presence and Skype杂志 and skypejournal and Life and Life and wishlist and Every Post and observations and stories.

Fall VON 2006 - Whither IM?

Written by Skype Journal on September 12th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and VoIP and Google and Business and Microsoft and yahoo and AOL and ebay and presence and Skype杂志 and events and skypejournal and Competitors and Every Post and Strategy and Marketing.

Wireless Telephones and Personal Assistants - What Does One Look For?

Written by Skype Journal on September 11th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and VoIP and Reviews and ebay and developers and presence and Technology and Skype杂志 and Technology and events and skypejournal and Skype Partner Watch and Every Post and observations and Skype Journal People and Ideas & Views and Marketing and counterpoints and Certification.

Presence: Hidden in public view

Written by Skype Journal on September 10th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and VoIP and ebay and presence and Technology and Skype杂志 and Technology and skypejournal and design and wishlist and complaints.

Can AOL Become Carrier 2.0 By Executing on Voice 2.0 Manifesto?

Written by Skype Journal on September 7th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and VoIP and News and AOL and ebay and developers and presence and Developer Zone and Skype杂志 and skypejournal and Competitors and Skype Partner Watch and Every Post and Strategy and observations.

Podcast wtih Jon Arnold –Skype’s Assets for Executing on the Google-eBay Announcement

Written by Skype Journal on August 29th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and VoIP and Google and Business and Microsoft and yahoo and ebay and presence and Skype杂志 and skypejournal and Skype News and Strategy and support and Skype Journal People and stories and Marketing and community.

7,000,000 On Line and Almost Communicating in Real Time

Written by Skype Journal on August 29th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and VoIP and ebay and presence and Skype杂志 and skypejournal and Life and Life and Every Post and observations and support and community and complaints.

Sony Mylo suffers from Sidekick syndrome

Written by Skype Journal on August 9th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and VoIP and ebay and developers and conferencing and presence and Technology and Skype杂志 and Technology and skypejournal and design and wishlist and Skype Partner Watch and North America and counterpoints and webcam.

Conference Calls from the Outlook Toolbar

Written by Skype Journal on July 22nd, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and VoIP and Products and ebay and conferencing and presence and Technology and Skype杂志 and Technology and skypejournal and Every Post.

Skype’s Opportunity for IM Federation Leadership

Written by Skype Journal on July 14th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and ebay and developers and presence and Technology and Developer Zone and Skype杂志 and Technology and skypejournal and Skype News and Every Post and Ideas & Views.

Six New Toolbars … Yes, Six!

Written by Skype Journal on July 3rd, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and VoIP and Software and Products and ebay and conferencing and presence and Technology and Skype杂志 and Technology and skypejournal and Skype News and Every Post.

Unified Communications, Presence and Relevance..

Written by Skype Journal on July 1st, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Uncategorized and Skype and VoIP and ebay and presence and Skype杂志 and skypejournal and Competitors and Every Post and Strategy and observations.

Are you lying about your presence?

Written by Skype Journal on June 28th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and VoIP and ebay and presence and Skype杂志 and skypejournal and Life and Life.

Skype in eBay - Why wait?

As I mentioned yesterday, Andy speculated that eBay would announce Skype integrated into eBay auctions. I started thinking about this and remembered that eBay already supports HTML code within its auctions, so you could simply add your own Skype button with full presence yourself - without waiting for Skype and eBay to get their $4 billion act together!

Skype supports Javacript code buttons, such as this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/
skypeCheck.js"></script>
<a href="skype:tkeating?call"><img src="http://mystatus.skype.com/bigclassic/tkeating" style="border: none;" width="182" height="44" alt="My status" /></a>

Unfortunately, eBay doesn't allow Javascript to be embedded within auctions. Actually that is a good thing since someone could embed a virus into an auction.

Fortunately, Skype also supports direct image links to display your presence. So all you need to do is put this piece of code in your auction and change the bolded part to your Skype username.

<a href="skype:tkeating?call"><img src="http://mystatus.skype.com/bigclassic/tkeating" style="border: none;" width="182" height="44" alt="My status" /></a>

So I decided to create the very first eBay auction integrated with a Skype button. (Link to Auction). Of course, I'm sure eBay is looking to implement more advanced features and integration other than a simple Skype presence button. Wonder if they'll charge extra fee to list have a Skype button? They charge an extra fee for just about everything else.

Update (2 min after posting): For some reason the Skype button in Firefox shows a presence message of "I'm not telling", but the presence functionality works just fine in Internet Explorer. Strange...

Screenshot of my auction: (in case eBay takes it down)

TrackBack (0) | Comments (0) | Tag with del.icio.us

Tags: auction, ebay, presence, skype, voip
Copyright VoIP & Gadgets Blog

Written by VoIP & Gadgets Blog on June 13th, 2006 with no comments.
Read more articles on Uncategorized and Skype and VoIP and ebay and presence.

Hictu! online address book with presence

We all have problems with our multiple digital address books, multiple IM/VoIP clients, which affects productivity - both professionally and personally. Checking each client to see which buddies are online or to look for a specific buddy is a pain if you run multiple clients like most of us do. So I was intrigued when Luca emailed me a tip about Hictu! and pointed me to the news in his blog. In his blog, he writes:

What about having a "live" address book which provides information about your contacts' availability ? What about a presence-based address book ? What about something which really improves your "responsiveness" ? Hictu! is the solution. It's the latest product coming from Abbeynet, where our engineers work hard to create innovative services in the field of VoIP, presence and web. It has been released as a beta preview, so more features are still missed and will be available in the next upcoming versions.

Well, amen, brother! Hictu! integrated several popular IM/VoIP clients including MSN, Skype, Jabber, AIM, ICQ, Abbeyphone and Sitofono.



Even better, in the the next couple of weeks they plan to add the following features:
- Mobile presence (through a lightweight Symbian/Java client which will be linked to your mobile status and use)
- GTalk presence
- SightSpeed presence
- Gizmo Project presence
- Click to Call (already available for Abbeyphone and Sitofono)
- Hictu! widget
- Premium account (SMS, VoIP etc.)
- SuperStatus (what is it ? stay tuned...)
- FREE voicemail
- Firefox and Thunderbird add-ons
- many other cool features

Nicely done Luca! I'll have to try it out when I get a chance. Check out the site for more. No if I could only figure out what Hictu means.

TrackBack (0) | Comments (0) | Tag with del.icio.us | VoIP & Gadget Blog | Permalink: Hictu! online address book with presence

Tags: gtalk, hictu, im, microsoft, msn, presence, skype
Copyright VoIP & Gadgets Blog

Written by VoIP & Gadgets Blog on January 1st, 1970 with no comments.
Read more articles on Skype and VoIP and Microsoft and msn and im and presence.

Iotum looking for Blackberry users to test their app

Alec Saunders has an open call to test Iotum's Talk-Now presence-award application on a Blackberry. Russell Shaw has a good overview. I'm pretty swamped lately or I'd like to try it myself. Looks pretty cool. Any takers?

TrackBack (0) | Comments (0) | Tag with del.icio.us | VoIP & Gadget Blog | Permalink: Iotum looking for Blackberry users to test their app

Tags: Russell Shaw, Alec Saunders, iotum, Talk-now, presence
Copyright VoIP & Gadgets Blog

Comments on this Entry:

Written by VoIP & Gadgets Blog on January 1st, 1970 with no comments.
Read more articles on Mobile Phones and presence.