Get interactive faces for Skype animation using CrazyTalk for Skype, a dynamic animated messaging tool for Skype featuring customizable morphing facial animation allowing you to interactively control animated Skype conversations! Let’s face it. Not all of us are sweet talkers. So why not let your characters facial expressions show your emotions instantly! Animate Skype with loads of content you can download from the web or create yourself with CrazyTalk’s character creator. Share them with your friends whenever you like, using whatever photo you like, animated however you like – to become the face of whoever or whatever you want to be!

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Are you a Skype user and have a cell phone, well now you dramatically reduce long distance and roaming charges by using the new WebMessenger Mobile for Skype mobile client.WebMessenger allows you to take Skype on the road with you. Check the availability of colleagues, friends, and family on your mobile phone, send and receive chat messages, or even simply click on them to give them a quick shout.Skype’s WebMessenger Mobile allows you to call anywhere in North America for free and to countries around the world for the same low rates that you now expect. The software comes in two versions, a free one and another paid version with several extra features. Read the rest of this entry »

A mashup is a software application or service that combines data from more than one source into an integrated experience. It has parallels in the practice of merging together two or more songs for something entirely new and cool. Think of Christina Aguilera’s vocals from “Genie in a Bottle” merged into the Strokes’ “Hard to Explain”.

Entries to the mashup competition were judged against these criteria: Skypeness, usability, coolness, stability, usefulness, flair and layout. The winner, PamFax, allows you to send a fax to any fax machine in the world and easily pay with your Skype credit. (I realize the previous sentence used the word “fax” three times. Sorry ‘bout that.) Registration is not needed, nor is pre-payment. Optionally, you get fax status notifications via Skype chat, SMS or email. And there’s one more little cool touch: you can look up where the recipient is located, using Google Maps.

The judging panel consisted of Paul Amery, Antoine Bertout, Lester Madden, Damon Williams, Adam Trachtenberg, Phil Wolff, Jim Courtney, John Musser, Jack Dorsey and Julian Bond. (Also see Jim Courtney’s excellent extended mashup competition post on Skype Journal.)

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It was about ten weeks ago when we last talked about new SkypeIn countries on this blog. Back then, we hit the sweet eighteen. SkypeIn countries, that is.Now, we’ve added two more. Mexico and Ireland. The country that gave us Pancho Villa has a population of over 108 million. When the 6 million Irish are added, we have a crowd that packs a punch. And deserves SkypeIn numbers.

Which is exactly what they’ve got now. Enjoy!

For those who think SkypeIn is just an orthographically challenged way of saying things like “Gone Skypin’”, I have this little explainer: When you have a SkypeIn number, your friends who don’t have Skype can call a regular phone number. And you will receive the call on your computer or any other piece of gear that runs Skype.

As Borat would say, “Is nice!”

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