We created and unofficial directory of Skype public chats a few weeks back as I wrote in this post. It appeared were not the first to do so There's also searchskype.net and this nameless, but nicely designed directory (looks familiar, doesn't it?).

Some public chat hosts kindly added our eyes and ears to their chats. Thank you for doing so. It was quite fun to see what goes on in these chats. For example The Entrepreneur Story chat lead me to a group of students who set up functional businesses with only 100 dollars. Space science chat gave me regular updates on what Nasa had been up to and made me wonder why the Earth has only one moon. There were also some less educational chats where at least it was good to see people from different parts of the world getting to know each other. This is what Skype public chats are for.

We'll be contacting creators of Space science and The Entrepreneur Story chats to send both of them a Philips VOIP 321 phone. And we'll send creators of Search Skype, BarkerJr.Net and Trip hop, Chillout, Drum'n'Bass a Logitech webcam. That's more phones and less webcams that initially promised, but that's a change for better, not worse.