Renewing SkypeIn and voicemail from webpage link |
Last April I threw down $40USD for a one year subscription to SkypeIn. This gave me a local Skype phone number and voicemail so that people could contact me from a telephone line directly to my Skype account.
I have used SkypeIn to leave voicemail from our Saturn Relay using OnStar hands-free. What I haven’t gotten, however, is a significant number of voicemail messages over the last 12 months. I’d say a scattered few on average have chosen to leave voicemail.
I got all the way through the credit card part to renew and thought: hmm, maybe I should pass? Will it really be used $38 USD worth? I’m thinking the answer is yes, but I’ve still got a couple weeks still before the number expires to ponder this further. I do like being able to just call from driving around and leave myself voicenotes from the car.
During this morning’s reading I learned how to create a link for visitors to leave Skype voicemail from a website on the podcasters Yahoo group courtesy of Bob Zwick:
Here’s the simple code to get a voicemail.<a href=”skype:YOUR_SKYPE_ID?voicemail” onclick=”return skypeCheck
();”> <img title=”Click to leave me a Voice Message!”
src=”http://www.skypejournal.com/blog/images/skypeicons/Voicemail_16×1
6.png” style=”border:0px;” /> Skype me a voicemail</a>
For those who click the link that code generates with Skype installed, they can use their headset or microphone to leave me a voicemail message directly. It would also work to just pick up the phone and dial the number in the screenshot above. Both are connected to my Skype account.
So let’s actually try that here: 
Skype me a voicemail
The only difference if you view source is I copied over the image to our server so we weren’t hotlinking the image from Skype.
My thinking has been with this Skype that I could provide Hmm readers an alternate way to contact me by voice instead of or in addition to calling our office number which is typed across the top of my picture on the homepage. My Skype name (TDavid) and office phone number has been posted on the homepage of this blog for quite some time. If you call that through Skype and I’m not available then you can leave me voicemail that way too.
Come to think of it, this functionality could be handy for blending some reader voice feedback (with permission, not private voice messages of course) into the weekly Hmmcasts. I will add this link to this week’s Hmmcast.
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Man,
your interest level is far above mine. I don’t understand why anyone still cares about Skype. I’ve been using Gizmo almost exclusively at this point because of the easy record function. Skype was still pretty buggy when I jumped off a year ago - will have to check to see if it has improved..
Comment by Matt Wardlaw — April 7, 2006 @ 11:14 am PST
Matt - Gizmo doesn’t allow SkypeIn type functionality with voicemail, do they? If they do, then I’d definitely consider using them. I wrote briefly about Gizmo here: “And that’s the biggest knock for Gizmo, BTW, they don’t have any chat (yet) and don’t have enough registered users. Gizmo is getting good reviews and some are saying it’s better than Skype, but until they have the users and the competing features (which Skype has spent a couple years refining now) then there is no real comparison.”
That was back in August 2005 and a lot of things can change in six months. Would I be able to get a telephone number that people could call and voicemail like Skype? Also, the user problem: 5.5 million users on Skype right now as I write this.
And thank you Jeremy Wright for helping to test my skype to voicemail link. He was the fastest to clickthru and leave a voicemail message.
Comment by TDavid — April 7, 2006 @ 11:51 am PST
in FireFox, I get a “Skype is not a registered protocol” .
Comment by orangecrush — April 7, 2006 @ 12:02 pm PST
good question on the voicemail - no idea. You can indeed get a phone number though, because we have one, and that is how we do a lot of our interviews for the show, via Gizmo….though we record them with an alternate source.
Comment by Matt Wardlaw — April 7, 2006 @ 12:03 pm PST
orangecrush - perhaps a dumb question on my part, but you have Skype installed, right? If you do, then did it work in IE?
Comment by TDavid — April 7, 2006 @ 12:10 pm PST
[…] Me? I still prefer using multi-IM clients like Trillian. I’ve even backed off using Skype (still haven’t renewed SkypeIN phone number). […]
Pingback by Make You Go Hmm: » Hmm quickies #29 — June 21, 2006 @ 1:03 pm PST
Frequent international callers can use One World Subscription which costs $22 per month. It gives calls to landlines in 40 countries, three numbers that non-Skype users can call on as well as voicemail and call forwarding facilities.
There is more flexibility in third party add-ons. One such tool is pamcorder.com, which allows you to record Skype voice calls. From the same people comes pamfax.biz, which lets you send and receive faxes via your Skype account for a small cost.
Comment by Simon — October 13, 2009 @ 5:40 am PST