Speaking of Skype, the techAddiction podcast number “three”:http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/ta/2005/03/22/the-techaddiction-show-3/ also had a little bit on Square7’s “DUALphone”:http://www.square7.com/dualphone/index.htm. It’s “dual” in that you can make normal “PSTN”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSTN phone calls and Skype calls from the handset. It has two input lines — one for your phone line and a USB connection for your PC. The software that comes with the phone allows you to scroll through your Skype contacts from the handset. Pretty cool.

Of course, only available in Europe for now.

The folks over at “The techADDICTION Show”:http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/ta/ are using Skype’s new “voicemail”:http://www.skype.com/products/skypevoicemail/ feature (which is in beta… whatever “beta”:http://froogle.google.com/ means these days) to allow interaction with their podcast audience. Listeners of their show can skype the Skype user _techaddiction_ and leave a message about the show. Read more about it “here”:http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/ta/2005/03/20/techaddiction-skype-line-is-open/.

Skype’s voicemail feature runs € 15 for 12 months or € 5 for 3 months. A pretty inexpensive way to add interactivity to a podcast.

Oh, as mentioned on the techAddiction show is a bit about “Skype Answering Machine”:http://www.freewebs.com/skypeansweringmachine/index.htm which is a freeware _client_ voicemail application for Skype (Skype’s voicemail service is server based).