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SkypeWeb is now available

By My status Jaanus on February 9, 2006 in Skype Beta and new releases.

SkypeWeb is now officially available. It is supported in the [latest release of Skype for Windows](http://www.skype.com/products/skype/windows/). To activate SkypeWeb, you need to [turn it on](http://www.skype.com/share/buttons/status.html). You can get your own [Skype button here](http://www.skype.com/go/skypebuttons).

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



My status

One bit of feedback we've had is that there's currently no "dropdown-style" button available in the [Skype button builder](http://www.skype.com/go/skypebuttons). People are asking what's up with it and why did we take it away? Short answer -- we just didn't make it in time to remake it to the new style with status. It's coming back. Soon. Really. Keep checking the page.

Now, we have already quite a few sites using SkypeWeb. Here are some of the more interesting ones.

[Bebo](http://www.bebo.com), 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)](http://www.dba.dk) the number one Danish classifieds portal, is using SkypeWeb to show the Skype status of people who have posted classified ads.

Lunarstorm, a [Swedish](http://www.lunarstorm.se)/[UK](http://www.lunarstorm.co.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](http://www.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](http://www.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](http://www.sixapart.com) is enabling bloggers to show their Skype status anywhere on the Web.

[TOM.com](http://www.tom.com) is using SkypeWeb in its customer service offering to display Skype user presence information for its customer service representatives.

[vBulletin (vbulletin.com)](http://www.vbulletin.com) has already adopted SkypeWeb, providing instant Skype status integration for the Internet's most widely-used forum software.

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The button for email seems not to work for Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo.

For Gmail and Hotmail, the image is no longer a link to skype. It's just a plain image.

For Yahoo, the image is a link to skype, but it opens a new window to the yahoo inbox.

I was testing it by sending mails with Outlook Express.

bernardlan | Friday, Feb 10

http://what.se ?!?!

martineden | Wednesday, Feb 15

This feature is only available on Windows.

When do you expect to release it on other platforms?

I've already placed SkypeWeb on my weblog at blogs.sun.com, but it only shows my status when I'm using Skype 2.0 on Windows and not when using lower versions of Skype on other platforms.

It is important, for a feature like this, to be available on all platforms at the same time. By the way, is there a Solaris version available.

By the way, another minor feature for the presence icon is to have a way to select the background color for the image. As you can see, the current background color does not quite fit my need. I know this leads to various combinatorial and file or attribute management headaches but there must be a way to solve the problem, and the appeal would be tremendous. Right?

mortazavi | Saturday, Mar 4

WAT ABOUT EASY AND AUTO UPLOAD PHOTOS WITH SLIDESHOWS MARK LUTHER DIMAANO ROSAL

godmlrosal | Saturday, Dec 30

Would it be posible to use on www.trendsales.dk

falslev | Tuesday, Jan 23

I'm using this on my blog but with the latest version (2.6) on OS X, it often doesn't change to offline when I close Skype. Seems to work correctly about 20% of the time.

daniel.heffernan | Sunday, Jan 6

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