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Skype Finally Gets Facebook Integration

Posted by on Oct 14, 2010 | 13 Comments

Skype 5.0 for Windows has just been released with some monumental improvements and features. The most significant of which is the integration of Facebook. Inside of Skype there is now a Facebook tab that allows Skype users to chat or call their Facebook friends via Skype.

Skype’s Facebook integration is simple, and brings you Facebook right inside Skype. By clicking the home icon you’ll get the extended Skype Home area, which includes your personal dashboard with news, alerts and a summary of mood messages. In this area the new Facebook tab lets you view your Facebook News Feed and Phonebook directly inside Skype.



The Facebook News Feed section will display a summary of activities like you see within Facebook, except that below each status update there are two Skype buttons; SMS or Call. These buttons only appear if your Facebook friends have included their phone number in their Facebook profile.

If you have a friend with a mutual connection on Skype, you’ll also see the option to start a Skype call.

These exciting new features are significant, but Skype’s latest release includes much more than Facebook integration. There is also an improved 10-way group video calling, enhanced contact lists, more emphasis on profiles and a completely redesigned user experience.

One of the great new features is, Dynamic View, this option automatically positions the person speaking in the larger video window. Along with that, Skype released improved 10-way group video calling, and an automatic recovery feature that will get disconnected audio and video chatters reconnected.

For a long time the contact list has gotten neglected. But, with 5.0 the contact lists got a face lift with the inclusion of photos. The profile photos are a big plus and will make the search experience easier for members to better find their friends on Skype.

Unfortunately, Mac users will have to wait for these new and exciting features. Skype has made no comment on how long it will take to release the Mac version but they say it will been very soon in the near future.

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  • http://bra.ms Will Bramlett

    Best one I’ve seen is Mess With Words (Cydia for $5).. Place any combo of tiles (correct words or not) and then press play. Will tell you if the words is not a real word then asks if you want to play it anyway. Will tell you if an opponent is cheating too

  • http://210consulting.com/ Jeremy Blanton

    I’m an addict to that game… My best word was crazes… got me 111 points :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/tomchapin Tom Chapin

    Just use the “Ultimate Word Finder free” iphone app. It will ruin Words With Friends for you, forever. All you do is take a snapshot of the board and load it into Ultimate Word Finder app, which then runs OCR on the entire board and crunches all the possible positions and combinations. It will blow your mind. I don’t even play Words With Friends anymore because of it.

    • http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris Pirillo

      You’re not supposed to admit to using it. :)

    • http://chris.pirillo.com/ Chris Pirillo

      You’re not supposed to admit to using it. :)

  • http://twitter.com/axi11a Brad Huchteman

    i am also hooked on the game. after you have played someone a couple times you can get a pretty good idea if they are using another app. I have other friends who would never or maybe hardly ever cheat. they tend to be more fun to play with in the first 3/4 of the board, but the ext-app style is best for killing the long drawn-out endings. I tend to play with whatever rules my opponent is projecting, but would rather keep all brain powered.

    • http://twitter.com/Techdude356 Tom Marly

      same

  • http://sunnyis.me/ Sunny Singh

    Coming from an Android user, widgets are definitely extremely useful. I have clock/weather on my main home screen, and I have my other widgets on the left home screens like Springpad, Google Voice, Docs, etc.

  • Jacob Burrell

    IOS copied several things that Android has had forever. The iPhone though does have a sort of “widget” but is limited to a number on top of a icon which could display number of emails or text messages.

  • http://twitter.com/joosthere Joost van Eck

    If you jailbreak an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, you are able to install something out of Cydia: SBSettings. It works almost the same way.

  • http://twitter.com/mkayeadams Melissa K. Adams

    I don’t know if I can agree with this as even a new iPhone user and no where near a “power” user I would say that I can see EVERYTHING mentioned in this article and them some right on my first page. I have my calendar, the weather, and not to mention all of my news (but I really use Twitter for that), my music (both Pandora and my iPod music), and I have not even gone pass the 33rd row of apps…