Wouldn't it be nice if you could educate novice Skype users of the importance of text messaging a person before ringing her? Skype is not a telephone, it is much, much more.
We need not continue using these new tools in the ways history has shown us. We need not be interrupted, distracted and made slaves of a ringing device on which we have next to no control.
Skype, the real-time telephone replacement technology that is being used by over 2 million individuals every day, is rapidly increasing its reach while expanding its capabilities and features in a multitude of interesting ways.
Thanks to the Skype API a number of companies have started created complementary tools and facilities to augment Skype already powerful feature-set.
The latest addition to cross my exploration path, came thanks to wakeful eye of Stuart Henshall, one of the few competent people in the field of online communication and collaboration tools and the author of the excellent Skype Journal, an online blog I strongly recommend.
This new Skype plug-in allows quite a few interesting things including the ability to:
