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Mittwoch, November 12, 2008

Revolutionary stuff - use Skype as a search engine

Ok, I need to write about hiogi again, since this blog is also my personal diary and in 20 years from now I want to read what got me so excited when I was younger... And THIS really gets me excited!!!

This week we launched the world's first Q&A solution "hiogi for Skype". Users can aks free questions directly in a chat window and do not need to install anything. Anybody can register for free in order to become a hiogi and start asking questions. Especially, if you are looking for advice, insider tips, opinions "hiogi for Skype" will help you. It even works on the mobile phone, if you istall the new mobile beta version of Skype. The skype teams have tested it and like it.

Here is a step by step introduction of how to register and activate "hiogi for Skype" in less than 5 mininutes:

A) INTERNATIONAL (English):

Save your personal skype account on this page or in your settings.

Wait until the hiogimessenger contacts you and add hiogi to your contact list. Make sure your skype client is running, contacting your client may take up to a minute.

Skype your individual activation code via skype to hiogi.

Get a list of all Skype functions by typing HELP into your hiogi skype chat window.

Have fun!

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B) GERMAN:

Speichere deinen Skypenick hier auf dieser Seite oder unter deinen Einstellungen ab.

Warte bis der hiogimessenger dich kontaktiert und füge hiogi zu deiner Kontaktliste hinzu. Vergewissere dich, dass Skype läuft und dein Status auf 'Online' steht. Es kann bis zu 1 Minute dauern, bevor der hiogimessenger dich kontaktiert, habe bitte etwas Geduld.

Skype dem hiogimessenger deinen Aktivierungscode, den du auf der Seite siehst.

Tippe HELP um alle Funktionen des hiogimessengers anzuzeigen.

Viel Spaß!

Freitag, Mai 04, 2007

Live News from the German Developers Conference - Day 2

When I was still at eBay and eBay bought Skype I thought: Wow - interesting, but expensive and risky... Today I attended the Skype session of Lester, who is a skype employee and an expert in the Skype API and various tools around Skype... Well, I was impressed at the rate that Skype rolls out new features.

Did you know, that skype is the fastest growing software EVER!?!? Launched in 2003 Skype has 196 Mio users today and growing with 1 Mio new users per week! Skype not only is a chat software, but a full communication solution with conferencing features, contact management and a also a payment tool, based on your skype in/out credits. I was fascinated by the new developers program that skype launched in Dec 2006 and the 14 Mio downloads that the Top 10 external tools already generated. You can find more on http://developer.skype.com/DevZone. Check out and download the Publishing Studio! It has great features to build and market your own skype plug-in. Skype 4Publishers even manages your license fees etc... Skype Prima and Skype Fine which are still in planning or in Beta also looked very interesting to me!

As a conclusion from todays session I changed my mind: Skype was a good acquisition for eBay and will become THE communication standard of the web within the next 3 years! Lester, my friend - you convinced me... :-)