Skype named finalist in CNET's Webware 100 awards
A lot of people have become allergic to any mention of awards, as they no longer carry the weight they once did. They've become a conveyer-belt industry and mounds of acrylic junk make it increasingly difficult to spot the few… Read more
Public chats can now handle 150 participants (and you thought 100 was cool)
Those of you who worry that your public chat will break under the weight of participants, worry no more. (Or worry less, for a more gradual approach.) It used to be that public chats had a 100-person limit. Chat walls… Read more
Small Business Pack and reseller opportunities
Our Small Business Pack is out now. [See the details on the business blog.](http://blogs.skype.com/sites/business/2007/05/introducing_the_small_business.html) One thing that's interesting about this — quite often, people ask me how they can resell Skype or otherwise benefit from it. We have various programs… Read more
Discontinuing the old obsolete Skype Points system, and our current affiliate program
Part of operating a company is reviewing your activities. And things and projects have a natural lifecycle — they are born, they live, and then they sometimes come to an end. Some time in 2005, we set up a system… Read more
We need more votes and entries in the human emoticon competition
As the title says See [this previous post](http://blogs.skype.com/sites/en/2007/05/skype_32_for_windows_final_ver.html) about the competition and instructions for entering. Three winners get a [digital photo frame...](http://www.skype.com/intl/en/campaigns/videosnapshot/) not too bad eh? [See here](http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showforum=139) for entering and voting. **New:** if you don't want to bother with… Read more
Skype Game Channel now open for business
Just this week, Paul Amery who's the Director of our Skype Developer Program, announced the Skype Game Channel. You can make a game and package it as a Skype Extra and then publish it through this channel — and make… Read more
Free Mother's Day calls with Skype
For those of you in the US and Canada, you shouldn’t forget that today is [Mother’s Day](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day) — and even if you have, it’s not too late to do something about it Skype is offering free calls to US… Read more
Free Mother's Day calls with Skype
For those of you in the US and Canada, you shouldn’t forget that today is [Mother’s Day](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day) — and even if you have, it’s not too late to do something about it Skype is offering free calls to US… Read more
Housekeeping: using Technorati backlinks instead of trackbacks now
This is just a small housekeeping note that on our English blogs here, you no longer see trackbacks. Well, you might be seeing some with some older posts, but we won't accept any new ones. Instead, we'll use what Technorati… Read more
First six-digit milestone for SkypeFind
I'm very happy to share that SkypeFind reached a significant milestone of first 100,000 business listings yesterday. Thanks to all you contributors this far, keep those entries and reviews coming! And if you have not even searched SkypeFind for… Read more