http://simonwillison.net/2012-08-24T18:24:00+00:00Simon Willison2012-08-24T18:24:00+00:002012-08-24T18:24:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2012/Aug/24/is-it-possible-to/#atom-tag

<p><em>My answer to <a href="https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-embed-Skype-into-a-webpage-to-use-as-live-chat-support-for-free/answer/Simon-Willison">Is it possible to embed Skype into a webpage to use as live chat support for free?</a> on Quora</em></p> <p>Olark offer a very neat JavaScript widget that does exactly this (it's text-based messaging, not video or voice): <span><a href="http://www.olark.com/">http://www.olark.com/</a></span> - you can try their demo at the bottom of their page.</p> <p>It's free for up to 20 conversations a month, and very reasonably priced for the other plans.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/apis">apis</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/skype">skype</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/quora">quora</a></p>

2009-09-09T23:06:33+00:002009-09-09T23:06:33+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Sep/9/londiste/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Londiste_Tutorial">Londiste Tutorial</a></strong></p> Master/slave replication for PostgreSQL, developed and used by Skype. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/londiste">londiste</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/masterslave">masterslave</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/postgresql">postgresql</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/replication">replication</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/skype">skype</a></p>

2007-08-20T14:11:16+00:002007-08-20T14:11:16+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Aug/20/skype/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://share.skype.com/sites/en/2007/08/what_happened_on_august_16.html">Skype: What happened on August 16</a></strong></p> Windows Update caused a massive global reboot, which destabilised Skype’s peer to peer network due to the flood of log-in requests. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/peertopeer">peertopeer</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/skype">skype</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/windows">windows</a></p>