Everyone seems pretty excited over Skype being intergrated with Facebook.
I don't know why, but I find this announcement pretty boring. What's the big deal? That you can make calls to people who don't have Skype? If they don't already have Skype the odds that they want to start a call via Facebook is unlikely.
Not to mention I think Google + is going to destroy Facebook.
In my opinion, all this 'intergration' hype is fueled by the notion that with voice comes revenues. That people are willing to pay for voice connectivity. Even if you give that connectivity away for free, you are still somehow making money off it on the back-end somehow (in Facebook's case I'd assume it's some sort of advertising model down the road).
Either way, I'll be interested to see how much people actually use the intergrated Skype function in the long run. I'm guessing not very much.
I'd be more impressed if Skype had intergrated with eharmony or something, at least that would be a targeted use of the application and you could see a potential revenue stream offering users 'voice enabled' accounts.
I would have been more interested if the integration had been with LinkedIn, but even then, I don't think a lot of people would use it. For the life of me I just don't understand where this idea comes from that people want to 'talk' more. I think a lot of people like the text-based form of communication that socmed outlets offer.
But I guess the dream that one day we'll live in a world where you can call anyone from anywhere on any device for free makes every little thing that looks like it plays to that dream seem interesting.
Intergration with Facebook? Yawn.
I don't know why, but I find this announcement pretty boring. What's the big deal? That you can make calls to people who don't have Skype? If they don't already have Skype the odds that they want to start a call via Facebook is unlikely.
Not to mention I think Google + is going to destroy Facebook.
In my opinion, all this 'intergration' hype is fueled by the notion that with voice comes revenues. That people are willing to pay for voice connectivity. Even if you give that connectivity away for free, you are still somehow making money off it on the back-end somehow (in Facebook's case I'd assume it's some sort of advertising model down the road).
Either way, I'll be interested to see how much people actually use the intergrated Skype function in the long run. I'm guessing not very much.
I'd be more impressed if Skype had intergrated with eharmony or something, at least that would be a targeted use of the application and you could see a potential revenue stream offering users 'voice enabled' accounts.
I would have been more interested if the integration had been with LinkedIn, but even then, I don't think a lot of people would use it. For the life of me I just don't understand where this idea comes from that people want to 'talk' more. I think a lot of people like the text-based form of communication that socmed outlets offer.
But I guess the dream that one day we'll live in a world where you can call anyone from anywhere on any device for free makes every little thing that looks like it plays to that dream seem interesting.
Intergration with Facebook? Yawn.
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