Never heard of Skype? Well, visit www.skype.com to learn more.

What’s the secret sauce in agile project management? Constant communication. Since right from the start – Skype has been our primary communication tool to keep the distributed development team in-sync. Certainly the most useful feature is the ability to ad-hoc extend a one-to-one chat or call to a multi user conference. We use the bookmarked chats with all developers subscribed to broadcast notifications (like on IRC channels). Thanks to the availability of the Skype client for all major operating systems (Windows, Mac and Linux), the team members have the free choice of system they like to use… and of course – not to forget the daily mood message fun.

After all – Skype likes local.ch too! They chosen local.ch to cover the Swiss White & Yellow Pages search for the Skype Web Toolbar. The toolbar is available for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox (only Windows) and allows you to start a search on local.ch, initiate Skype calls and add people to your contacts from within the web site.

Give it a spin.