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 Skype, and seeing some cool stuff along the way.

I am please to launch the series with an interview with John Hammink who is our certification program manager here at Skype. John was actually my very first video interview subject so I am honoured to make him the subject of our first program.

Program synopsis
If you have ever wanted to know how you get your hardware certified to use the Skype logo, find out what it costs and what the benefits are. We catch up with John Hammink, the certification program manager who explains all.

You can go to the download area here .

I have many more programs planned including chats with a number of our partners who have some cool products in the extras gallery, so expect this to be an ongoing part of the developer zone site.

The format is still experimental, for example the video is only available in WMV. There is also a fine line with having a 30 minute video that is 100mb download or reducing the video quality so the download is only 30mb.

If you want different formats tell me, if you want to higher, lower or a mixture of video quality resolutions to choose from then let me know.

To help me get the format right, please post your comments in the gallery.