Skype marketing

• Skype UK summer competition. Ends 15 July. Win a holiday.

• SkypeOut to India and Pakistan cheaper. Ends 30 July. "£0.088 excluding VAT per minute to India and £0.081 excluding VAT per minute to Pakistan and can be made to both landlines and mobiles registered in India & Pakistan. Connection fees apply."

In the neighborhood

• $100 iPhone Shuffle to hold 1000 random phone numbers. Skype to follow with a "Dial Lucky" button.

• Jajah makes an iPhone compatible web page (less clutter, narrow width). Still waiting for a WAP-compatible page.
• Congrats to GrandCentral for buying being bought by Google. Good news: still free. Bad news: you need a friend to invite you into the system.

TwitterGrams need SkypeOut Caller ID

• TwitterGrams are to Podcasts what Twitters are to Blogs. There's demand for a Skype interface, but Skype does not provide unique caller IDs from most countries, including the US.

Recording

• Call Recorder for Skype (Mac) 2.1 ships.  

• CallBurner (Windows) works. I still use Pamela for all sorts of things but CallBurner does nothing but record. I'm testing the "anti-drift technology" that keeps both sides of the call recording in sync, a problem in longer interviews.