Are you aware that you can call into any Tropo.com application directly from Skype? After you login to your Tropo account, simply go to the Applications page and click one of the arrows next to an application name to see the numbers associated with that app. As shown here, one of those numbers is for Skype:
Just copy/paste that number over into your Skype client and you are off and calling. Note that the space in the middle doesn’t matter. Skype will call the number correctly with or without the space.
You can try out the application shown in the screen capture here: skype:+990009369991438830
That particular app is a demo mashup with Yahoo!Weather where you can enter a US ZIP code and listen to the weather. If you aren’t from the US, or don’t want to use your own ZIP code, you can always use “32801″ and listen to how nice the weather is in Orlando, Florida, where our corporate HQ is located.
We’ve had a lot of folks praise the direct calling from Skype, not only because it makes your application immediately accessible to the tens of millions of people using Skype daily, but also because it’s just a very simple and easy way to test applications. Give it a try!
And if you don’t yet have a Tropo user account, just head on over to Tropo.com there signing up for an account is absolutely free. Check out the documentation and tutorials and getting started today building voice/IM/SMS applications in JavaScript, ruby, python, groovy and PHP.