Will Skype open to web developers?

Skype's Jonathan Rosenberg is speaking at eComm on Monday (11:15am). He's one of Skype's thought leaders, the company's Chief Technology Strategist. I was really hoping he'd announce how Skype will play in ViPRland. His talk blurb goes in another direction:

Social Sharing 2.0: The Rise of Real-Time.

Social sharing through sites like Facebook and Twitter has seen meteoric rise in the last year. Exciting as that may be, it only scratches the surface of what social sharing can mean on the Web. In this talk, Jonathan Rosenberg will explore the next phase of social sharing - real-time communications using voice and video. Through it, a whole new set of online interaction models open up for Web publishers, going well beyond the mere posting of links on walls and in tweets. Jonathan will detail several potential use cases to see how they can drive increased value for users and content providers alike. [emphasis mine.]

Speculating madly, dear reader, what will Rosenberg announce?

• Skype voice and video conferencing you can embed in web sites (like bloggers embed YouTube videos).
• A Skype platform you can build into mobile, desktop and web apps.
• Live voice/video conversations you can attach to threads of textual conversation in mailing lists and blogs.
• Skype conversations you can trigger through links in social media, a la bit.ly.
• Syndicating your Skype conversations and activities through RSS, Atom, and ActivityStream feeds that can be consumed by sites and news readers.
• Hosting recordings of your Skype conversations for discussion and sharing a la Facebook and YouTube.

Anything less will disappoint.

Frankly, I'd love for Skype to publish user behavior as an activity stream that can be consumed by other systems. Beyond online/offline/availability presence, let me show friend/follow/block, chat room join/leave, conference call join/leave, mood changes, profile updates, contact group updates, and my other in-Skype activity. If you're in San Francisco this weekend, join MySpace, Google, Ericsson, Facebook, Microsoft and me at StreamCamp.

See you at camp and at eComm. @evanwolf, @skypejournal, skype:evanwolf. 

tags: skype, facebook, twitter, jonathanrosenberg, ecomm, activitystreams, streamcamp

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