I’d like to Share Skype, really I would, but I cannot login. I can login successfully to my Skype account elsewhere at Skype, check my SkypeIN voicemail via logged in Skype account, yadda, yadda, but Share Skype just tells me in red text: “Signing in failed. Please double-check your Skype Name and re-enter your password.”. I submitted a support request to Tech support and hopefully will have an answer soon. I see other people commenting on the Share Skype blog so it could be just an isolated single user thing. Anybody else here having trouble logging in over there? Yes/no?

What is Share Skype? It’s Skype’s first foray into blogging and it’s great to finally see. I must admit I’m a little disappointed they have no trackbacks (seems odd for a company which is so communication-oriented), but at least they have comments, unlike some new blogs popping up.

What would really be cool to see is integration with Instant Messaging inside Skype and the blog. So I could see and read the new posts and then comment directly through the Skype client without having to visit the Share Skype site. Even more cool would be letting me add other RSS feeds to my Skype client. Maybe this is something that can be done with the Skype API? I’ll have to do some more research into this.

The Skype.com site doesn’t say anything yet about Share Skype, so my thanks to the fine people who have already blogged about it, via the Share Skype blogroll: Scoble who sees Len Pryor’s fingerprints on this, Skype Journal’s Bill Campbell feels the “competitive pressure is on” and Andy Abramson loves being listed alongside other blogger luminaries.

I’ve been following Skype since early September 2003. Skype launched on August 29, 2003.

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