Caption Contest Winner
I am please to say that Stony3323 is the winner the caption contest…. Read more
Please send us your Skype story
We're collecting stories about how you use Skype, similar to what you can already see in the [Skype Stories forum](http://forum.skype.com/viewforum.php?f=1). You can of course continue to post them in the forum if you like, but we now have also an… Read more
Developer Contest
As developers we love the chance to show off our coding skills, and if there is a prize to be won then we love it even more. So how do you fancy the chance at winning $5,000, plus the chance… Read more
SkypeIn Germany
Make cheap calls to Germany SkypeIn numbers are now available in Germany — finally, after a relatively long quiet period, we get a new SkypeIn country! Yay. To buy them, just go to our Online Numbers page…. Read more
Documenting the Skype family experience
Someone has [put up a blog to document their experience as they dump their landline and switch completely to Skype+cellphone](http://skypefamily.blogspot.com/). Found it in Skype Forums, the blog has a link to the relevant thread. Sounds like it's going fine so… Read more
Welcome to the start of a new week.
The audio from Skype Day in Japan didn’t come out as well as I would have liked, so I am going to spend a bit of time touching up the audio to see if can improve it. At the moment… Read more
Staff on beanbags
* what: Guinness Record — most people calling with Skype on beanbags in a row (see the headsets!) * when: just this Monday * where: Skype office * who: three random Skypers, working hard to bring you the next… Read more
Skype Buttons plugin for WordPress
We recently [announced](http://blogs.skype.com/blog/sharing_tools_news/skype_buttons_now_available/) [Skype Buttons](http://www.skype.com/go/skypebuttons), and support for them is now starting to show up in various systems. This just came in — [Skype Buttons plugin](http://anti.masendav.com/skype-button-for-wordpress/) for [Wordpress](http://wordpress.org/), a popular blogging system…. Read more
Skype on German e-plus 3G network for 40 Euro flat rate
Here's something of special interest to our German readers, but cool to know for others as well. A while back, we [announced](http://www.skype.com/company/news/2005/skype_eplus.html) cooperation with Germany's [E-Plus](http://www.eplus.de/OnlineShop/skype/default_ws.asp) mobile network. Back then not much actually happened, but as of today, this is… Read more
200 million downloads
This morning, Skype hit 200 million downloads. To celebrate, we made a picture. Set it as your own picture too (Right-click on the picture, click "Save Picture As…" and save it somewhere, and then set it as My Picture in… Read more
