Skype Blogs

News, stories, and updates from Skype

4 million online users

After a while, we've got to yet another million, fourth this time. Also, worth noting (thanks to Bill from [Skype Journal](http://www.skypejournal.com) for the idea) that almost exactly a year ago, on October 20 2004, a year back from tomorrow, we… Read more

Welcome to The Learning Zone Video Series.

The Learning Zone will give you exclusive video interviews, chats, demos, training and more from the people around Skype, our partners and our developer community. It’s your way of keeping in touch with what’s going on with the world of… Read more

Skype is looking for partners

We wouldn't be where we currently are without our partners. Although you as the user may only see "Skype", we have many partners who help us be great, while at the same time maximising their own business through opportunities provided… Read more

Skype trojan – probably first, not the last

We saw [in the news today](http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2144082/skype-spoof-hides-ircbot-trojan) that there's a Skype-related trojan, reported by [MessageLabs](http://www.messagelabs.com/). We haven't seen it in our own inboxes yet, but it's certainly something to worry about. It was no doubt "inspired" by a newsletter we recently… Read more

Official Dutch grammar help over Skype

["The green book"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Language_Union) is the official grammar reference for the Dutch language. The publishers of the green book [are now providing help to users about new grammar and spelling rules over Skype](http://www.nu.nl/news/607542/50/Makers_'Groene_Boekje'_leggen_spelling_uit_via_Skype.html). Search for "groeneboekje" on Skype and you'll see… Read more

Skype Tracer Source

If you have been developing Skype applications then you will have probably used the “Skype Tracer” tool. If you’re not familiar with it, Skype Tracer enables you to try out Skype messages to see what they do before you go… Read more

Harry Potter and his pals on Skype

While going over some old stuff, I found [this post by Russell Shaw](http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=541) looking at how many people have something related to Harry Potter in their name. > I found 31 Skype users claiming Harry Potter as either Skype Name… Read more

"Free" SkypeOut calls?

> [13.10.2005 1:00:36] x says: Is Skype blocking the number 1800FREE411? (many say it lets you make free SkypeOut calls) These days, several people have asked me this. (Also noted [here](http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/skype/free-skypeout-dialing-hack.asp).) "Was SkypeOut hacked?" Actually, all is in perfect order… Read more

We bring you… Skype Gift Certificates

You can now buy Skype Gift Certificates. They are Skype voucher codes that you can buy to give out as gifts, resell or use for yourself. You can buy Gift Certificates for Skype Credit (which you can use to make… Read more

What is Skype Credit?

A short answer would be "Skype Credit is something that we made available today." But this doesn't really answer the question So read on. First let's look back a bit at what has been recently happening on the front of… Read more

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