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I just had a quick IM chat with Joel Selvadurai. He's just launched Messagr.com which overlays Skype's user directory with some interesting social networking meta-data. Essentially you can tag your Skype account with your own interests so people can find you and contact you easily and in real-time.
I'm suprised LinkedIn haven't made the Skype connection - Oh wait - imagine all those recruiters IMing and calling you at the wrong time !
If there we're a coolness rating for web startups, Messagr.com would be right up there - it merges web and IMS, has a social networking aspect, search, tagging, etc.
One word of caution with sites that use identity federation (I realize that's not quite the right term). Think about it - you give your user-names for all the accounts the service needs to access (in messagr's case - only Skype) and you protect that with a password. What are the chances that the password is the same as your password for the external services - pretty good I would imagine. Be careful what information you give up !
