Comments on: How Can Skype Become The Next Facebook

By: Saim

Saim — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:22:57 +0000

Well i font think that Skype become the next Facebook coz there are still its not much popular among users.. people use it just coz of best voice qualtiy other wise it is just nothing

By: Skype Will Never Beat Facebook | stuart henshall

Skype Will Never Beat Facebook | stuart henshall — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:44:29 +0000

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Here Are My Latest Graphiqz « Kiq Roqz Graphiqz’s Blog — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:58:50 +0000

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By: Jim Courtney

Jim Courtney — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:04:07 +0000

Luca,

Yesterday Skype COO Scott Durschlag made it clear to us that Skype wants to build relationships with established Social Networking operations (as they have done with MySpace) as a provider of a real time communications component of the SM site. But they have no intention to build their own SM capability; real time communications software is Skype's strength and focus, not community building.

As for white boarding, Skype's Public Chats are a text-based form of whiteboarding; the Skype 4.x Discussion Public Chagt has been an ongoing discussion since May 2007 when Skype introduced Publi Chat. It's a virtual "water cooler" discussion.

Finally, the new screen sharing on Skype for Mac actually allows transmission of streaming video, such as YouTube (not commonly possible on most desktop sharing applications. This probably works because Skype video itself can support 30 fps at 640x480 resolution.

And it became quite clear in discussions yesterday that Skype is operating as an eBay business unit independent of whatever eBay itself does. The new Skype executive team's sole responsibility to eBay is to build value for this business unit any way they feel appropriate for the benefit of increasing Skype's valuation only.

By: Skype as Facebook, and a quick counterpoint | Signal to Noise

Skype as Facebook, and a quick counterpoint | Signal to Noise — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:44:49 +0000

[...] precisely why I’d sometimes rather communicate on Facebook, or e-mail, etc. But please read Luca’s post, as it is a really cool idea that warrants deeper [...]

By: Franco-Folini

Franco-Folini — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:32:58 +0000

Your vision (dream) is correct. The only problem is that Skype is own by eBay, not exactly the most dynamic company in Silicon valley. Skype lost the opportunity to become a relevant player of the web the same day it was acquired by eBay. Now the only hope for Skype is to become a spin-off of eBay (not so improbable considering the recent eBay flat growth). Even in this case I'm not sure the is anybody left in the company with the vision and the determination to change the current situation.