November 2008

It’s been a week now since the UK launch of the Three INQ¹ phone, and there’s been plenty of discussion of the new handset in the blogosphere. It’s based on the same platform as the 3 Skypephone, and so has the same level of Skype integration – you can call your contacts on Skype directly from your address book, for example. On top of that, it also connects to Facebook, making it easy to keep in touch on the move.

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The Skype blogs have always been a place for lively and productive discussion, but as the volume of comments is pretty high, we’re introducing some guidelines to help everyone stay on track.

What sort of comments are we looking for, then? Comments which make a substantive point with a minimum of fuss – the same sort of standards we try to adhere to when we’re writing these blogs, in fact. We don’t edit comments, so make sure yours fits the guidelines before you post it.

We’re trying out this policy on the international and UK blogs to start with. If it works, we’ll roll it out to all of our blogs over the next couple of months. If you have any questions or comments about the policy, either leave a comment below, or chat with me on Skype.

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You’ll probably remember Rebecca’s non-stop journey around the world last year. She spent 33 days zooming around, not even pausing to eat or sleep (or talk on Skype), and shared her experiences on her blog, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube and even a column in the Telegraph — and (some of the time, at least) showed you just how easy it is to take Skype with you wherever you go.

It turns out that the Interactive Marketing and Advertising award jury rather liked the idea, particularly as it was lots of fun, got lots of attention (760,000 visits to the blog, 140,000 unique page views on Flickr and 300,000 total video views on YouTube during the 33 days) and didn’t cost us much at all. A bit like Skype itself, really.

As a result, the Skype Nomad was announced as the winner of the Technology category at the IMA awards ceremony in London last Thursday. It’s a great honour to win the award – and thanks are also due to our friends at Albion, 3 Monkeys, Outside Line, Sidekick and We Are Social who helped us get Rebecca from A to B, to C, to D, and so on