Niklas Zennstrom gave a keynote at VON Canada yesterday. He showed a curve plotting Skype adoption vs. Kazaa, Hotmail, and ICQ. It blows them away. Pulver put the presentation online here. He talks about Skype as the iPod of telephony here.
Here’s some current stats:
- 35 million users
- 155 thousand new users per day
- 1.5 billion minutes per month (22% monthly growth rate)
- 1.2 million paying customers for SkypeOut
I also stumbled across the first dedicated Skype blog, or the first that I am aware of anyway.