Skype Adds Facebook Video Calling Support

Thursday November 17, 2011 7:32 am PST by Eric Slivka

Back in September, Skype debuted a new Skype 5.4 for Mac Beta offering Facebook integration in the form of chat and news feed support. The company has now expanded that integration to include support for Facebook video calling.

Initiating a Facebook-to-Facebook call from within Skype is quite easy; all you need to do is connect your Skype and Facebook accounts. Then, select a Facebook friend and hit the video call button in Skype- your friend simply picks up the call from Facebook. This new feature lets you maintain social connections with your Facebook friends and compliments previously announced features such as being able to see when your Facebook friends are online, read their status updates and IM them all from Skype.

Skype is a free download and service, although the company also offers a premium subscription service offering such features as group video calling and group screen sharing.

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arkitect

27 weeks ago

Those are some pretty fugly people.

Well hello there Mister Adonis… care to post a pic of yerself? :rolleyes:

Hmmm… Thought not.

Rating: 11 Positives / 0 Negatives

liavman

27 weeks ago

Those are some pretty fugly people.

totally unnecessary and un-graceful comment.

Rating: 16 Positives / 5 Negatives

Shrink

27 weeks ago

Those are some pretty fugly people.

totally unnecessary and un-graceful comment.

Well hello there Mister Adonis… care to post a pic of yerself? :rolleyes:

Hmmm… Thought not.

Agree totally with livman and arkitect

Some sarcasm is fine - but gratuitously cruel posts really stink.:(

As my father used to say - you missed a perfect opportunity to keep your mouth shut.:rolleyes:

Rating: 9 Positives / 0 Negatives

Wilder

27 weeks ago

I wish Apple brought Skype. It would have been amazing to have Skype integrated into iOS and would have been the perfect starting point for FaceTime and iMessages.

Rating: 7 Positives / 0 Negatives

Yvan256

27 weeks ago

What's the delay in opening up the Facetime specifications? Steve announced that Apple would open up all the protocols/etc for Facetime in a keynote.

We need Facetime on Windows, HTC, Android, etc. With Microsoft now owning Skype and this Facebook integration (not that I care about Facebook at all), all signs are pointing at Skype getting a too strong foothold as a closed standard.

Rating: 6 Positives / 0 Negatives

coder12

27 weeks ago

As long as I can block annoying people from calling me all the time I guess it'll be okay. I haven't used skype in forever though, it's all facetime for me.

Rating: 4 Positives / 0 Negatives

miknos

27 weeks ago

I wish Apple brought Skype. It would have been amazing to have Skype integrated into iOS and would have been the perfect starting point for FaceTime and iMessages.

Apple would never paid all those billions for Skype.

Rating: 4 Positives / 0 Negatives

wikus

27 weeks ago

Who uses iChat these days?

What's 'iChat' ??

Rating: 3 Positives / 0 Negatives

justinfreid

27 weeks ago

So Skype is Facebook's first officially supported desktop app, considering that Microsoft owns Skype, I think we'll see the bond between Facebook and Microsoft grow over time. Microsoft Office online already works with Facebook, and adding Microsoft's Live services would create a formidable opponent for Google's cloud services.

Rating: 3 Positives / 0 Negatives