{"id":4127,"date":"2006-01-17T08:38:05","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T08:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/skype-as-lifestyle.html"},"modified":"2006-01-17T08:38:05","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T08:38:05","slug":"skype-as-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/skype-as-lifestyle.html","title":{"rendered":"Skype as Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">Andy has some great <a href=\"http:\/\/andyabramson.blogs.com\/voipwatch\/2006\/01\/its_not_about_s.html\">comments<\/a> on how Skype should be putting kiosks in stores and eventually having their own stores. This makes a great deal of sense for the company. Amazingly I have heard Skype mentioned on the radio twice in one day. These weren\u2019t technology stations on satellite radio mind you. I was just me flipping between stations on AM and FM and hearing them talk about Internet telephony. Amazing. <\/p>\n<p>The software\u2019s popularity is growing at a nice clip and there is potential for the company to have the coolness factor of an Apple one day.<\/p>\n<p>They should be experimenting with some sort of retail distribution through kiosks. The money they will generate will be from sales of all the new Skype-enabled gadgets that are hitting the market.<\/p>\n<p>Andy mentions that Radio Shack is probably not the place to find the young and hip audience the company needs. What about Sharper Image? I could see Internet Calling kiosks in the corner of these stores. Let\u2019s see how this plays out.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Skype is already embarking on a kiosk strategy and us bloggers aren\u2019t aware. Anyone know if this is happening?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy has some great comments on how Skype should be putting kiosks in stores and eventually having their own stores. This makes a great deal of sense for the company. Amazingly I have heard Skype mentioned on the radio twice in one day. These weren\u2019t technology stations on satellite radio mind you. I was just<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[347,775,776,777,233,17],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}