Skype & MySpace Tag Team Social Networking

Well  it’s  really taken longer then I thought it would have, but Skype  & MySpace have teamed up to  once again change the way social networking is done.You can now send VoIP audio to your friends through you Myspace Friend’s IM. Now I never  said that I knew which two companies would team up like this but it really was just a matter of time. If you look at alot of innovative webmaster’s and bloggers, they have had these feature’s built into their webpage’s for some time now. Given that the way they do it is not quite the same as this new feature but they were finding ways to get it done. I give it only a matter of time before FaceBook and like site’s pick up on this type of communicating.

User’s can now join Myspace through their Skype software and have audio contact with people in their friend’s list’s as well. Will this be a really big move for both companies? probably. Although I still only give it a matter of time before it get’s abused the way the whole MySpace network turned into a spammer’s paradise. Everyone will have 100 new audio message’s a day from people they don’t know and it will be a band with a 10 second clip, trying to promote their new song or upcoming show. 

Even more interesting that obviously PC 2 PC calls will still remain free, but the money generated from MySpace on PC 2 Land & Cell lines will be split between the two companies at about roughly 2 cents a mintue. This information was apparently not supposed to be released until today sometime, but what can we say it’s going to be a hot topic for a while. Ebay wrote off 1.4 billion of their MySpace acquisition out of the total 4.1 billion purchase and are willing to throw that right back in to try and hold some ground against the rapidly catching up FaceBook.

[tags]skype, myspace, social, networking, voip, audio, streaming[/tags]