Just after my post below, I came across this post from East Asian blogger/reporter and pal Jeremy Wagstaff about Skype In the Classroom.
Now only if Apple had really kept going with their Apple In the Classroom program as great guns as they had in the early days. Then it would have been iChat instead of Skype. But for that matter, AOL had ICQ and WASTE and never captured the imagination of what they meant.
Translation--great ideas are great ideas and just have to be allowed to grow up. That's what the Skype guys have figured out.