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September 13, 2005
What am I bid for this fine little VOIP company?
What with eBay making Skype an offer too good to refuse, Bleeding Edge has been contemplating the possible consequences.
According to eBay, it will use Skype to "streamline and improve communications between buyers and sellers". What does that mean, exactly? Instead of sending each other emails, which seems to us to be the preferred method of communication between buyers and sellers - it creates something of an audit trail, for one thing - it seems eBay contemplates buyers and sellers having a chat. Don't be surprised if you get a call from someone in Russia at 2 in the morning, offering to sell you a nuclear warhead.
Or maybe they'll introduce an auctioneer, to call all the bids, and whip up interest. Either way, we're not terribly keen. And somehow we know that whatever they do will involve more gratuitous advertising and promotional muck.
There's no logical connection, it seems to us, between online auction houses and VOIP. We've taken Skype off our list of VOIP providers.
Posted by cw at September 13, 2005 11:06 AM
Comments
... thats strong, have a glass of red and consider that Skhype was crap all along. Hey - just pick up the phone - current switched voice exchange technology and inter-exchange signaling, provide high quality worldwide voice and DATA connections and its cheap. Thats Bleeding Edge too. Voice over IP - inferior technology looking for a market.
Posted by: Stuart at September 13, 2005 09:13 PM