Skype opens SkypeKit for all gadgets and applications

On June. 22 Skype has realeased an open development set called SkypeKit, that enables making Skype calls, send instant messages, create videochats and build in other interesting possiblities into computer and other electronics. In the last several years Skype has managed to add its program into many gadgets, starting with wireless or mobile phones and ending with TV-sets due to the direct cooperation with technology producing companies. But SkypeKit makes SDK now available for all developers. 

SkypeKit enables adding Skype possibilities into any application. Now it's available to a limited number of users, but starting with June. 23 you can sign up and become your beta-version of the product. The application will cost about 20 dollars - that's the necessary membership fee. 

According to the words of the general manager of the company, Jonathan Christensen, the development toolkit is very much alike to the one used by Skype usually. It is a bit fuller than Skype Public API. The first version of SkypeKit  will be obtained by manufacturers of electronics and application developers. Already now it is working in Linux, and Windows and Mac will be supported in several weeks. TV-sets, digital frames and other user gadgets, which get connected to Internet and have a camera, are the main candidates for integrating Skype. Anyone who develops applications can add Skype, though the program is still unavailable for web-applications. A part of SkypeKit is also the SILK codec, and the company wants to spread it as wide as possible, because the value of codecs is first of all their usage. 

An interesting possibilty of the development kit is the ability to use own interfaces for audio and video. 

The next step of Skype is the integration of such a development toolkit into mobile operation systems. And while Skype is already running on iPhone and several Android, this event is also not too far away. 

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