Skype Headset Giveaway
At our recent trip to WordCamp San Francisco, we talked with lots of vendors, potential partners and Matt Mullenweg himself.
One of the interesting vendors we talked with was MySpace. It turns out that they’ve got new WordPress plugin and (like all other social networks) an API for connecting their platform with other platforms. We have one client in particular (Taro Gold – WordPress & MySpace) that uses MySpace as a means to get their books and music some publicity.
Currently the MySpace plugin allows “bloggers and commenters the ability to log in using their MySpace credentials rather than having to set up and remember yet another username and password.” This feature seems kind of trivial, but after talking with the representative, he revealed that they’re working on adding some other features that seem like they might be worth it, such as the ability to cross post between WordPress and MySpace.
While I’m personally not a huge fan of MySpace due to it’s lack of design standards, but I do see the benefit of using it for traffic generation. This is a huge step forward, and for that I commend them.
So what does this have to do with a Skype Headset, and why are we giving it away? Skype has also aparently partnered with MySpace so that now you can use Skype to make phone calls with your MySpace IM account. MySpace is trying to promote the partnership, so they were giving away Free Skype headsets with 30 minutes of talk time. We picked it up, and while we use skype daily, we thought it would be in the good spirit of WordPress to give back to our community.
So, leave a comment on this post telling us what you’d do with 30 minutes of Skype talk time. We’ll choose a random comment on Friday, June 19th and announce the winner the following Monday.
I’m new to Skype, but this will help me learn!
What would I do with a free 30 minutes of Skype? I would probably reach out international friends on a more frequent basis. I am a musician who actively uses MySpace and would like to reach out to those who may discover us internationally.
I would call you guys and thank you for the free head set. I don’t know what is wrong with these other people. Maybe they just weren’t raised right?
PS: the reason people aren’t leaving comments is probably because the system for registering to comment on a site in WordPress is really bad. The register flow is pretty much invisible.
If you know WordPress, the registration process is straight forward. If you don’t know word press, it can leave one a bit confused. Since this comment should be about Skype, all I can say is that I use it when I travel. Haven’t had time to play with mySpace.
I call my brother in europe