Skype Journal interview with Paul Amery of the Skype Developer Program
Paul Amery is Director of the Skype Developer Program, based in London. This is an informal interview shot under some willow trees outside the Santa Clara Convention Center in California for seven minutes in mid-May 2007 by Phil Wolff, editor of Skype Journal. Paul had given a talk that morning to more than one hundred programmers at the TMC Communications Developer Conference 2007.
Questions:
- What do you do at Skype?
- Do you like being part of a rock star company?
- So what do you do at Skype? Responsible for the developer programme?
- You were speaking here today. What were some of the key points you wanted to leave with the developers?
- How many developers are part of the program now?
- What are some of the Skype developers that you find fun or interesting?
- Why do you play checkers?
- How did you get checkers on to your desktop?
- What is coming up in the developer programme?
- What makes the Skype Developer Program different or better than other platforms?
- How fast is Skype innovating?
- How is Skype different as a place to work now than when you started.
- How has the company changed in the last nine months? How does it feel to work at Skype?
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