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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
3:30pm US Pacific time

You can be sure I’ll be watching… 😉

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On Ellen Degeneres’ TV show today (Friday, March 20, 2009):

Ellen:(very excitedly) How is this happening? Are you Skype-ing in? What’s happening?

Oprah: Skype-ing in – that’s exactly what I’m doing!

I learned of this in a Skype public chat where someone passed along the link to the Huffington Post article: Oprah Invites Ellen To Share O Magazine Cover. Having not seen either of the shows, I had no clue as to the backstory where apparently Ellen has been campaigning to get on the cover of Oprah’s “O” magazine. Oprah was surprising (apparently) Ellen with a call via Skype video to ask her to be on the magazine’s cover.

For me the most interesting part was that first little bit where Oprah and Ellen had the dialogue above about “Skype-ing”.

Now I don’t know if the mention of Skype is related to the sponsorship of Oprah that Skype began last year although that would seem reasonable. If it is, I’d have to say that Skype is getting some great mentions for whatever they are paying. If they aren’t paying, it’s perhaps even more powerful in that Oprah and Ellen are using the tool and mentioning it on their own.

UPDATE:…

The post is a deep dive that gives some good insight into Skype. Definitely worth a read.

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It turns out that you can in the new Skype 2.8 Beta for Mac OS X… with a little file editing.

NOTE: This appears to be an experimental feature added by a Skype developer… and as I note at the bottom, it has some bugs.

Here’s what you need to do:

1. On your Mac, using either the Finder or the command-line, whichever you prefer, go to the directory/folder /Users/yourmacusername/Library/Application Support/Skype/yourskypeusername. (For example, my directory is /Users/dyork/Library/Application Support/Skype/danyork)

2. With some text editor, open the file config.xml.

3. Toward the end of the file, you will see a section of XML about <UI> and inside of that a subsection <General>. In that General section, add these two lines:

 <TwitterPassword>yourpassword</TwitterPassword>
 <TwitterUsername>yourusername</TwitterUsername>

Here’s an abbreviated version of what it looked like in my file:

  <UI>
    ...
    <General>
      <LastSkypeVersionUsed>2.8.0.309</LastSkypeVersionUsed>
      <SmsShowNumber>0</SmsShowNumber>
      <TwitterPassword>yourpassword</TwitterPassword>
      <TwitterUsername>yourusername</TwitterUsername>
    </General>
    <Profile>
      <LastOnlineStatus>2</LastOnlineStatus>
    </Profile>
  </UI>

4. Restart Skype.

Ta da… now anything you type in your Mood Message Chat or regular Mood Message window will show up in Twitter.

Now I found out about this when…

Skype’s news release is also out as well as a longer Skype blog post explaining the features (and which talks more about Skype Access, something I was unable to really try or demo).

It also looks to be worth reading through the full release notes for this version as there is a LONG list of improvements, changes and bug fixes.

But you don’t have to take my word for it anymore, you can download the 2.8 Beta for Mac OS X now.

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