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SkypeKit: “Naked” Skype Support Arrives for Hardware-Embedded Skype and PC Applications

by Jim Courtney on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 2:06 pm

This morning, at the CEA Line Show in New York, Skype is taking the first step in the evolution of its revamped developer platform with the beta release of SkypeKit, “empowering consumer electronic and desktop software innovators to embed Skype into their products”.
In summary:

Most importantly, SkypeKit allows developers to embed all the functionality of [...]

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Categories Communications News, Developers, Embedded Skype, Skype Hardware, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Platform, Using Skype, Video calling

A Conversation with Skype CEO Josh Silverman

by Jim Courtney on Mon, Feb 15, 2010 7:02 am

At last month’s CES I had the opportunity to meet with Skype CEO Josh Silverman and discuss various Skype issues that have arisen over the past year as well as where Skype is headed as a privately owned company. At the time I thought this would result in a normal text-based blog post outlining [...]

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Categories Communications Stories, Mobile Applications, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Platform, Skype on Mobile, Using Skype

Christopher Dean, Skype CSO at VON 2009: Skype Becoming Disruptive About Business

by Jim Courtney on Thu, Sep 24, 2009 5:09 pm

Building on Skype’s recent announcements of its evolving Skype for Business activities, Chief Strategy Office Christopher Dean gave a keynote address yesterday at a joint VON/Channel Partners Conference session. Three posts have followed up on the session:
Khali Henderson, in Skype Not Just Telecom’s “Bad Boy”, CSO Says, reports Christopher’s overview of their approach to [...]

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Categories Skype For Business, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions

The Future for 3rd Party Skype Developers: Bloggers Speak Out.

by Jim Courtney on Thu, Sep 17, 2009 6:09 am

The recent announcement of Skype’s decision to drop its Skype Extras (marketing) program initially caused much anguish across the blogosphere; however, more sober commentary has been appearing in the past few days. To recall the announcement:

Immediately: No new partner programs or upgrades will be placed into the Skype Extras
Going forward: Skype Extras will remain [...]

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Categories Communications News, Developers, Service Providers, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform

Demythifying the Skype Developer Story

by Jim Courtney on Sun, Sep 13, 2009 1:09 pm

On Friday the Skype Developer Blog posted a blog announcing the end of the Skype Extras program in what amounts to two stages:

Immediately: No new partner programs or upgrades will be placed into the Skype Extras
Going forward: Skype Extras will remain available via the Skype for Windows client until their certification expires (which [...]

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Categories Developers, Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform

“Skype Extras” Is Dead; Long Live the Skype API’s!

by Jim Courtney on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 5:09 pm

A Skype Developer blog post today, The future of Skype Extras, has created confusion and havoc amongst the blogging community that follows Skype (see, for example, the Zemanta links below). Having followed the Skype Developer Program over the past three years (and currently being a commercial user of some of the developers’ offerings) let [...]

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Categories Skype News, Skype Partner News, Skype Partner Solutions, Skype Platform