Skype 3.0: Transfer or no?

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The jungle drums are beatin’… softly softly… but they’re beatin’.

See, rumour has it that tomorrow at 8 AM EDT, the much anticipated Skype 3.0 will be released into beta.  Wonder what’s in it?  So do I.  And I can’t find nary a detail anywhere on the web… darn those folks at SparkPR and their foul embargo…

Of course, y’all know what we’re looking for at iotum.  Yup — a call transfer API.  Lenn Pryor promised us all last spring that we’d see a Skype to Skype transfer in the fall of 2006, and a Skype to PSTN in the spring.  Hopefully we won’t be disappointed.

… and how many other goodies?  The anticipation is killing me.

UPDATE: Apparently there are quite a few people in the know out there. As soon as this post was up, I heard from a few of them. Confirmed: the call transfer API is in.  Huzzah!  Also, a new plug-in architecture is one of the key components of the release.  Getting it work has been quite a bit of work, but it’s now been tested with a small group of hand picked ISV’s including Jyve, Pamela, and Unyte.

Know anything more?  Drop me a line, or send email. 

Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.