{"id":5989,"date":"2007-10-16T18:21:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T18:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/skype-myspace-partner.html"},"modified":"2007-10-16T18:21:19","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T18:21:19","slug":"skype-myspace-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/skype-myspace-partner.html","title":{"rendered":"Skype, MySpace Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Just a few days ago I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/ip-communications\/what-ebay-should-do-with-skype.html\">mentioned<\/a> Skype should be getting more involved in social networking. I also said the company should be streaming audio and video through its client.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Interestingly, 48 hours or so after my post, Skype has announced they have worked a deal with MySpace to integrate its internet telephony software into this social networking phenomenon.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Voice communication is &quot;a competitive advantage to us for gaining users and keeping users,&quot; said Kyle Brinkman, vice president of product development at MySpace.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">This is positive for Skype but also makes it difficult for the company to become more of a social networking company themselves. The reason of course is the MySpace deal may be in jeopardy if Skype becomes an effective social networking company.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Getting back to the beginning of this article &ndash; it seems MySpace and not Skype has made the deal to stream content via their service. Hopefully Skype will do this soon as well.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">By the way, if you look at the comments from the Skype <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/ip-communications\/what-ebay-should-do-with-skype.html\">post<\/a> you&rsquo;ll see Matt Giteau thinks the reason there has been no streaming deal was because Zennstrom didn&rsquo;t want a competing product to Joost. This makes good sense.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">See the Wall Street Journal <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB119257103385161054.html?mod=mm_media_marketing_hs_left\">article<\/a> for more.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few days ago I mentioned Skype should be getting more involved in social networking. I also said the company should be streaming audio and video through its client. &nbsp; Interestingly, 48 hours or so after my post, Skype has announced they have worked a deal with MySpace to integrate its internet telephony software<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,172,199,203,118,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989"}],"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=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}