When MySpace and Skype announced their intent to combine their services to allow MySpace users to connect instantly by something more meaningful than a Poke or an email, it struck me as almost late. Something that should have been here months ago. Remembers, months can be a long time in the short development cycle world of 2.0.
Yes, there are many voice related applications coming - or already - in FaceBook but we still lack the basic, presence driven voice and video communications services like Skype and SightSpeed (among others) have taught us to expect. I know you're online; lets talk or lets video. While I enjoy Facebook for many reasons, I don't like waiting for a response from people at the other end. If I see someone I actually want to reconnect with, I want to do it then. On the spot. Same goes for places like LinkedIn.
With fancy API's left and right and developers at the ready all over the world, this stuff just seems to be coming out slowly. Then again, I haven't even tried MySpace. Maybe I'm the one that's slow.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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