Facebook has officially taken the wraps off of their new Skype-powered video chat service. Starting today, over 750+ million people will have access to one-click easy to use video chat all within the browser without the need for messy 3rd party software installs. The premise of Zuckerburg’s keynote and the Facebook announcement overall revolved around three things: Group Chat, New Design and Video Calling… Group Chat: Now supports ad-hoc setup. New Design:...

Part of the rumored “big announcement” that Facebook will reveal next week will be in-browser video chat. According to TechCrunch sources “close to the matter”, Facebook’s Seattle, Washington team has been working on a new the new service that is heavily dependent on Skype services. As of writing it’s not clear if users will need to download a separate applications/utility or if users with Skype already installed (and/or already logged...

It looks like Skype is going through some growing pains (or acquisition pains for that matter) as of late with another outage coming just a couple weeks after the last. This time it appears to affect only European users, however. On Skype’s heartbeat monitor they’ve acknowledged that “a small number of users may be affected by this ongoing problem and that the company is looking into it”. Hopefully things pick up for the better. Nothing kills a...

Were you one of the many Skype users who were knocked offline by some random bug? You’re not alone. Yesterday we showed you how to manually delete the “shared.xml” file in question in order to get Skype back online. Today, a new update has been released that automates the removal of the corrupted file, though unfortunately Skype doesn’t include any further explanation as to why the corruption occurred in the first place. If you’re still...

While the exact cause of today’s Skype implosion (Microsoft acquisition jokes aside) is unknown, a temporary fix has been offered by by Skype themselves that should at least get desktop users back online. It’s not too involved as it involves deleting a single shared.xml file, so even computer beginners should be able to follow along. With that said, we’re not quite sure how a single file located on multiple platforms could take down Skype on a global...