Skype

So far, Carrie Anne Philbin has used Skype video calling to interview women in Australia, New Zealand and the United States. She records and edits the videos herself, and puts them on YouTube so anyone can access them, she says.

The recent update to Skype for iPhone brought some changes to the app, and to get started with the new version, Matthew de Beer offers some quick tips on the Skype blog.

Paul Toscano isn’t your typical executive. His business, Joyride Coffee, based in New York City, provides gourmet coffee to offices that have the standard 12-cup brew makers. Now that he is expanding his business to San Francisco, he has turned to Skype when in-person meetings aren’t possible.

A recent poll found that one out of three cat owners use Skype to check on their kitties, something that doesn’t surprise Skype Pet Ambassador Paris Permenter, who is also a pet writer.

The remastered version of Skype for iPhone was released last week, and the Skype team heard from many of you about other features you wanted. Today, Skype 5.1 for iPhone makes those features available.

If you use Linux, you’ll be happy to know there’s a new Skype for Linux version 4.3 that includes an updated user interface, new cloud-based Group Chat experience and more reliable file transfer support when you’re using multiple devices at once.