SkypeSync Creates Skype Contacts from Gmail, Mobile Phones and More
VoIP services continue to gain acceptance, and I don’t see that trend reversing. Skype is making it’s way onto handsets, which should help their growth, but it also presents a challenge: getting your various contacts into Skype to begin with.
Skype currently can import contacts info from Outlook, Yahoo! Mail and Mac Mail natively, but falls short on other platforms. Skype Journal’s Phil Wolfe takes a close look at SkypeSync. The desktop application adds support for contacts in Gmail, Plaxo and mobile phones via SyncML. That last bit is one of the most important to me. After all, information on the people you call most are likely on the device you use to call them, right?
Phil makes note of a huge issue (at least I think it is): SkypeSync sent a “join Skype” invitation to all of Phil’s importated contacts, which numbered close to 4,000. Yikes! You can download a trial version of SkypeSync, which limits you to 15 contact imports. The fully licensed version is available for 12 Euros.
Hi Kevin,
I believe that soon the mobile phone book would be passe and people would use the social media as the virtual phone book. I have written about it on my blog – http://www.telecomcircle.com
Regards,
Mohit
Hi, I am a SkypeSync author. The described problem with sending invitation to imported users was withdrawn with a newer release of SkypeSync