There have been a lot of stories recently about Skype - with security flaws leading the pack. There has been a software revision released. It seems since then that I have had more crashes. But these day who knows why?

More interesting is the increase in corporate users that I have noticed. People who I deal with in a variety of companies are signing up. Find myself on line and suddenly getting a dialogue box - "John Doe wants you to give him permission to see you when you are on line".

Meanwhile I know that the heads of IT in the same companies are trying to get rules in place to keep Skype out of the network. I heard one such story last night from a senior executive at a big company who had heard the arguments from IT about not using Skype in the company because of the potential for security issues, His argument against was that it is already too late. Itis like Napster all over again. A totally viral application, a cool brand - spreading like wildfire. That is what happens when you you get a product that enables free information flow between people. Because Skype is a social networking accelerator that just won't be stopped.