MySpace joins with Skype
If things continue down this road, the internet will soon be one large corporate monopoly. Skype and MySpace have just announced a partnership that will bring VoIP communication to MySpace users around the globe. Like we really need that. The new service, set to go live sometime during the end of November, will allow MySpace users to communicate with one another by way of Skype’s internet telephony service, and this will effectively provide the missing link for MySpace’s social networking, with voice chat functioning as a sort of final frontier in connecting users to one another. Wall posts, instant messaging, private emails, and now voice calls? This sounds like it could get a bit scary. Imagine the Skype equivalent of MySpace spam announcing that you’ve won a $500 gift certificate to Macy’s.
Will there be a fee for this?
Most of the point of connecting to Myspace is to passively keep in touch with people you wouldn’t normally call on the phone.
Myspace has been taking an unorganized path lately. I see Facebook taking a larger and larger chunk from Myspace as time goes on (I’ve noticed many of my friends on it have gotten tired of the spam and altogether shoddy makeup of the site), simply for Facebooks focus on streamlining their application, focusing on security, and adding useful modules to their product (ad widgets you can create revenue from, for example). I don’t see where this Skype tie-in fits into any sort of useful progression for Myspace users.