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Skype Developers Program One Year Old |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Wednesday, 14 June 2006 |
One significant advantage Skype and will hold for some time if
it can manage things properly is the first to market advantage. Skype may not have
been first to market, but its early popularity has enabled the company to attract
first mover advantage in many aspects, not least of all the development of peripheral
devices, such as Skype certified phones.
It reminds VoIP News of the iPod market, where far more money
is made from the peripheral products than from the device itself.
There are now more than 100 Skype Certified Hardware
Products Developed on the Skype API and some 3500 developers in the Skype
Developers Program.
The program has also seen the development of more than 300 software
programs based on the Skype API.
Skype has future plans for the Developer Program which
include additional developer support (particularly in North
America) as the company hopes to spur innovative integration with its
peer-to-peer softphone.
"The Skype Developers Program has been extremely
successful and we've seen some excellent ideas that benefit our users,"
said Lenn Pryor, head of Skype Developers Program. Now, with more than 100
million registered users in the Skype community, our developers can tap into
this market to build successful businesses and help increase profits."
The Skype Developers Program has a broad range of
application developers who include individuals, merchants and service
providers, as well as independent, commercial and enterprise software vendors.
Members are creating a wide variety of solutions and products. Examples
include:
-- Tellme - a provider of Internet-based voice services,
developed the first consumer voice applications to use IP infrastructure for
both the transport provided by Skype and content (VoiceXML) powered by Tellme.
The applications run on Tellme's network and can be found by visiting the Skype
Developer Zone at share.skype.com/directory/voice_services/.
-- Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM), the market and technology
leader in on-demand business services, has created a Skype-Salesforce
integration - available for free - that will voice-enable all of the more than
250 applications on the AppExchange. Customers have the ability to integrate
and deploy Skype along with any number of other on-demand applications via the
AppExchange to an existing Salesforce implementation. AppExchange can be found
at http://www.appexchange.com.
-- Vapps - a global supplier of VoIP conference call
solutions, Vapps recently announced an initiative to provide unlimited, free
conference calling for up to 500 participants to Skype's 100 million registered
users through Highspeedconferencing.com.
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