April 2007

The time has come to apply for premium or featured placement for the third quarter of 2007, entries are due 14th May.

These spots receive much higher promotion in the extras manager and are consistently represented in our top downloads lists. If you want us to promote your application you will need to complete the document which is available in the DevZone or directly from downloading here.

This document contains instructions on how you submit a completed request for consideration. If you are successful in your application then we will contact you with additional information. Successful applications will appear as Premium or Featured from July until the end of September.

In August, we will send out the document again for partners to reapply/apply.

Thanks for developing for Skype. We are pleased to share with you this month:

• Morné van Dalen, talking about Call Transfer project
• Updates: What is new in the Developer Zone?
• Why and how to get your software certified?
• Geek event : Meet and greet at Skype London office (see blog post)
• Caitlin’s corner: New Extras

Please visit the online Software Partners April Newsletter and subscribe to receive the next ones.

As summer is coming and we enjoy meeting colleagues and friends after work , we would like to raise to your attention that Skype is inviting you!

In fact, we are organizing a Meet and Greet at our London office (map). This will take place Thursday May 10th from 5PM to 8PM and there will be no agenda just beautiful people who use Skype and/or work at Skype. It should be a non formal event, with food&drink plus few entertainments (pool, baby-football table, Xbox tournament).

Remember, Skype API is:

Free to use (as in beer) with commercial and non-commercial applications.

So now it is time to meet you. For the security of the event, we are requiring you to subscribe by mail:

• Your name
• Your company
• Your location
• Are you an existing Skype developer? (Y/N)

We, Skype, are all looking forward to meeting with you.

Just come over and say Hi!

The Skype Public API Reference has been updated to include the changes available up to and including Skype for Windows 3.1

API Reference: https://developer.skype.com/Docs/ApiDoc

3.1 Release Notes:

• New commands (AVATAR, Predictive Dialer, Ringtones, Contacts focused)
• New CALL property - TARGET_IDENTITY
• New CHAT property - TOPICXML

3.0 Release Notes:

• Call transfer API
• File transfer object
• Notification changes
• Richtext mood messages
• Wallpapers
• Public chats

2.6 Release Notes:

• Voice API
• SMS API
• Shared contact groups
• Call cost information
• Chat Bookmarks
• Various new object properties and commands

Dear partners,

We’re sad to say it, but Mat Taylor will be leaving Skype today (April 13th 2007) to explore pastures new.

Mat has been a major advocate for the developer community, and perhaps most significantly has personally driven the Extras Manager launch for 3.0 within SDP.

We’ve now exceeded 10 million Extras downloads as a result.

Apparently Mat has given into the dark side that is BT, and will be driving their “21st century web” activities.

You could still get in touch with him here: Mat Taylor

Just for the fun, check his first post… so long Mat, things are evolved within SDP thanks to you!

Mat, we wish you the very best!

Continue reading "So long Mat Taylor" »

Currently we have many third party hosted applications running in our extras gallery.

Many were added to the site last year and haven’t been updated since. In an attempt to update our records and ensure the promotion of applications that intend to have an ongoing relationship with Skype, we are requesting developers of these third party applications to contact us.

It is particularly important to have these contact details on hand in the case of any potential security threats to your application. If you wish to further your relationship with Skype, please send the following information to our Gallery Editor.

• Name:
• Skype ID:
• Email:
• Phone number:
• Application name:

If we don’t receive contact details by Friday 11th May, we will remove your application from our Extras Gallery.

This week, Skype is going to launch a really interesting pilot within Extras which will promote a movie from Sony Pictures called Perfect Stranger.
We have teamed up with Pablo and his team from veroSee to deliver a unique campaign based on a puzzle that reveals the various film characters.

If this campaign pilot proves successful we may look at running others. The concept, will be to work with a limited number of clients to run promotions using the extra products.

Continue reading "A perfect stranger, do you want to be the next one?" »