Auctomatic to launch at eBay Live, sans any Skypey stuff, but with a morosely funny job listing.

Google Checkout Freedom Party at eBay Live will protest Checkout ban. I love the idea of partying to protest. More from AuctionBytes. RSVP for Thursday night.

eBay and PayPal gave out Star Developer awards yesterday. Skype didn't, not really its show yet.

Peter Kalmström's Skype Toolbar for Office now works with Microsoft Office 2007. Even Access, Visio, and Project. I have to think how this fits into project communication and workflows.

Skype says 21 million "extras" downloaded in the last six months. That's Lester Madden's "Concepts to Cash" slide show on the left.

Skype's Paul Amery is hiring a communication pro for Skype's DevZone, the better to recruit, educate and retain independent programmers. Three skills that might have been mentioned: video/vlogging, social media a la facebook and myspace, and journalism. Tallinn based and budgeted.

Did you know GIPS sells their own SIP softphone? Their enterprise version just turned 5.0, using the same codecs (the program that turns sound into bits and back) they license to Skype, Yahoo!, AOL, Nortel. No wonder Skype's busy building their own codecs.

iLike on Facebook claims it's more viral than Skype. Two weeks old, 6 million users, adding 300k per day. Three eBay apps on Facebook.

Some folks use Evoca to share recorded panel sessions. It's hot here in the Bay Area; craving an iced Evoca Cola.

Nice Networkworld column on the VoSky Call Center from April. Totally missed it.