You may have seen the recent announcement regarding SkypeWeb, if not you can view it here href="http://www.skype.com/company/news/2006/skype_skypeweb.html">here

SkypeWeb is supported in the latest release of Skype for Windows. To activate SkypeWeb, you need to turn it on. You can get your own Skype button here.

SkypeWeb in short means that you can have a fancy button for your e-mail or web page which goes something like this:

This functionality is ideal for partners who want to be able to show their online status, or indeed offer that feature as a value add to your customers. We already have 50 or so partner’s using this service, please read below for some examples.

Bebo, the largest social networking site in the U.K. and Ireland and one of the fastest growing in the U.S. with more than 22 million members, has integrated SkypeWeb to enable all Beboers to IM, voice and video chat.

DBA.DK (Den Blå Avis) the number one Danish classifieds portal, is using SkypeWeb to show the Skype status of people who have posted classified ads.

Lunarstorm, a Swedish/UK community Web site with 1.6 billion monthly page views, is integrating SkypeWeb to allow users to display Skype name and status in profiles.

Onet.pl, Poland’s leading Internet portal offering over 200 services and the widest range of information in the Polish Internet with 75 percent of Polish Internet users stating they visited Onet.pl at least once a month, offers SkypeWeb to enable more than a million bloggers and Webmasters to show their status.

Salesforce.com, the technology and market leader in on-demand CRM, has made SkypeWeb available on the AppExchange, enabling customers to deploy it directly within their Salesforce implementation.

Six Apart is enabling bloggers to show their Skype status anywhere on the Web.

TOM.com is using SkypeWeb in its customer service offering to display Skype user presence information for its customer service representatives.

vBulletin (vbulletin.com) has already adopted SkypeWeb, providing instant Skype status integration for the Internet’s most widely-used forum software.