This Is Real VIP Access
 | by Drew on May 23rd, 2008 |
I have spent a couple of nights behind the “velvet rope” waiting for access into an exclusive club or two. Never so much as when I had just turned 21 and was living in Miami. It seemed like a rite of passage almost. There just something so special about that VIP status. Perhaps it is the exclusivity of it and the ability to be one of the “chosen”. Well, my friends in the Tech world we have been given than VIP status.
Our friend at Skype, Peter Kalmström, has invited us to test out the yet-to-be-released Skype Toolbar that boasts a new feature to be included in the next version of the Skype Web add-ons. The new feature shows your Skype online status everywhere on the web. In other words, if I am browsing a web page and your name should happen to be on that page and you are one of my Skype contacts, your name will be a quicklink that when clicked will immediately engage my Skype to call you. How cool is that?
I encourage you to read Peter’s blogpost here as well as downloading the Skype toolbar here. Please note, however, that you are looking for the download at the bottom of the page. It should be
If you have any questions for Peter or you just want to tell him how awesome it is to be working with Skype in this capacity or really anything else, you can find him on our Ning community.
May 24th, 2008 at 6:58 am
I’m assuming, that we can use this for FF also? Great idea, anxious to take a look!
May 24th, 2008 at 7:52 am
I do apologize but yes….there is a Firefox Plugin as well. I think that file is SkypeFFPlugin.2.3.0.8PamFax.exe
May 24th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
I thought I might add some clarification as it seems there is still a bit of confusion as to what we are doing. We have been asked by Skype to test their name recognition feature which they hope to add in their next toolbar. Right now they have a toolbar add-on that allows numbers to be converted to Skype quicklinks. They now want to add names so that if a certain name appears on a webpage and that person happens to be a Skype contact of yours, you can just click on their name and contact them through Skype.
We are a perfect environment for them to test as we are (as a community) already on Skype and quite knowledgeable of their technology.
Let me know if you have anymore questions!