I wrote before how great the team is here at Skype. But few people actually know how everything started. I mean way before Skype and even KaZaA, before even Niklas was working with Estonia. The brains behind Skype actually started working together back in 1986:

The roots of Bluemoon go back to the year 1986 when […]

Today we were shopping at one of the local supermarkets and we wanted to buy apples. Not all fruits grow in Estonia of course, but the ones which do, such as apples or strawberries are generally very tasty, although small. So naturally we were looking for Estonian apples in the supermarket. Well, out of probably […]

Skype is of course the little software that you install on your PC, but it’s also a network with millions of people online. And it is possible to develop all kind of applications that take advantage of this network by using the Skype API. It doesn’t even require to have Skype involved in it, just […]

In two days, I have seen some of the best and worst examples of French medias using Internet. This weekend the radio I used to always listen to in France and still listen to often here with Internet streaming, Europe1, launched several daily podcasts with the best of their daily programs.
When podcasts started to appear, […]

To all good IT people I know,
Skype is growing fast and is fantastic company to work for. It is the best working environment I’ve seen so far, and the team here is great, a dream engineering team, probably the best technology team in Europe.
Estonia and Tallinn is also a great place to live. It’s modern, […]

Martin Geddes expressed in a little sentence very well my feeling about the mobile industry:

I love this industry. No other is as screwed up in such wonderful and creative ways.

It’s indeed a love and hate relationship. As an engineer I love working on these devices, but the stupidity of some of the operator’s moves make […]