Skypetoday announced SkypeWeb, a web presence feature that is already integrated into more than 50 Web sites in 20 countries around the world. SkypeWeb allows people to see Skype users’ online status and call or chat with them from any website as well as Skype people from each site with just a click.
Adam Gross, VP, Developer Marketing of the website salesforce.com said;
With just a few simple steps we were able to incorporate SkypeWeb into our AppExchange platform. In addition to free Skype voice calls, the SkypeWeb presence feature gives our subscribers the ability to know when their contacts and colleagues are available and online - all directly from within Salesforce.
SkypeWeb enables the integration Skype seamlessly and into any website. Even your personal homepage can be integrated with SkypeWeb and Skype is more than willing to oblige.
So if you wanna make free calls of a famous and popular VoIP company available to visitors through your website, you know what to do, don’t you?
A very thoughtful move by Skype to popularize Skype even further and extend its user base.
News: Businesswire
Comments
I smell a cheap publicity stunt.
Who wants presence information to intrude 24/7 on their surfing experience? That’s what softphone/IM clients are for–separation of content & functionality.
Haven’t we learned yet to not ”push” anything onto web site visitors?
Mind you, I can see a potential use: businesses with live customer service representatives might want to show on their web site which reps are ”available” to help customers and which are ”busy with a client.”
Then again, that would defeat the purpose of obfuscation for inbound calls by which businesses keep costs down (better to have someone ”on hold” than to let them see for themselves that not enough representatives have been hired).
Check this Gizmo forum thread on 775:
http://forum.gizmoproject.com/viewtopic.php?t=2435
Gizmo Project Bug Reports
775 - can’t answer the call
There is no record of anyone receiving a call from PSTN (regular phone network) or wireless phone to Gizmo 2.0 (v168) software and no Gizmo support and/or SIP Phone people have responded with any fix. There is also an indication that SIP hardware cannot receive calls to 775 numbers.