Skype released a new version of its software this morning.  The most exciting feature seems to be the ability to drop some HTML into  your blog post and create a link that allows up to 100 users to have a Skype conversation at once.  It seems to use SkypeOut, so it will be a money maker.  I wonder if those calls will act as conference calls - the new software lights up the picture of whoever is speaking at the time in a conference call.  Nice.

So last month or so AMD subpoenaed Skype alleging that they were colluding with Intel to limit Skype conference calls on non-Intel machines to 6 or less users at a time.  This Skypecast service seems to get around those allegations.  That's nice.

Tell me though, why oh why is there still not a way to record the audio from calls?  Third party services abound, but selecting one is no small task.  GizmoProject has one click record to .wav file.

The deal breaker?  No Mac version yet.  I'm going to freak out if that doesn't get resolved soon.  Mac versions are way behind the Windows versions.  That's just cold.