TABLE OF CONTENTS One of the powers of Skype is the ability it gives you to create add-on products to expand Skype s capabilities and add more features. This is accomplished through the application programming interfaces (APIs) that are discussed in Chapter 14 and the clever ideas of developers worldwide. A perfect example of these add-ons is found on Skype s Personalize Skype Web page at www.skype.com/products/personalise.
Developers have joined with Skype to market and sell additional sounds and avatars for you to use with Skype. So if you have some ideas for selling Skype add-ons, have developed a new software solution, or have an idea to sell voice content such as news or weather, visit Skype s partner program Web site for more information at www.skype.com/partners/.
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Adding voice mail to Skype is one of the more popular features and requests. Since many of us leave our computers on all the time or want to get messages when we are not at the computer, voice mail of some sort is a good idea so that people can leave messages for us anytime.
Skype s own voice mail was...
