Skype

MySpace + Skype = GOTV?

Posted by Mark W Johnson
Tue, 2007-10-16 19:34

The Wall Street Journal is free today. Perusing through the site today, I found this nugget worth noting:

Pact Brings Skype Service to MySpace
By MYLENE MANGALINDAN and ETHAN SMITH
October 16, 2007 5:59 p.m.

News Corp.'s MySpace and eBay Inc.'s Skype have agreed to put Internet calls into MySpace's instant-messaging feature to gain more users and broaden the distribution of their two services.

The companies will share revenue from the partnership. Other terms weren't disclosed.

MySpace, which is the largest social-networking Web site with 110 million members, and Skype, which lets consumers call other users via computer free, have been trying to broaden their networks. Skype has 220 million registered users. The companies benefit from having more people join their communities and connect to people they know.

Voice communication is "a competitive advantage to us for gaining users and keeping users," said Kyle Brinkman, vice president of product development at MySpace.

Hmmmm... Get-out-the-vote calls from your MySpace profile? Now we're talking.


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