Oprah dedicated her show today to singing the praises of Skype.

"On the show, titled 'Where the Skype Are You?,' Winfrey conducts video chats - via Skype - with people in weird places," writes the WSJ's Geoffrey A. Fowler. "Those places include a Canadian town near the North Pole, and from a submarine. She also talks to somebody flying in a Virgin America plane that offers Wi-Fi service - although Virgin warns they don't allow us normal people to use Skype and other voiceover ip services to make calls while in the air (so that folks don't annoy other passengers with noisy calls)."

"Winfrey has a solid track record of endorsing not just books, but technology products as well," writes DailyFinance's Anthony Massucci. "She
named Research in Motion's BlackBerry as one of her 'favorite things' in 2003 and did a show on YouTube in 2007."

"I don't think Skype will get the boost that Kindle did from its Oprah debut, as the technology is much more established," writes Technologizer's Ed Oswald. "However, it certainly won't hurt either..."

More here from AHN ... more here from the LA Times ... and more here from CNN.