I found what helped me beat the shyness rap was something unorthodox, but it worked for me so I figured I'd share it.
One night, I looked at myself in the mirror ( I think it was a few days before I started the bootcamp, and almost a month before I became active on the forums), and I just stared into my own eyes. In my head, I was telling that voice inside that tells me that the girls dont want to talk to me to shut up, and continued that for a while, until I started the bootcamp and my shyness was broken down, alot.
Once that happened, I also found that I had less friends, but the true ones stuck around. So all around it was a good thing.
All in all, I'm just saying you have to confront yourself, or else you wont go anywhere.