Skype and MySpace team up

Do you use MySpace? Well, soon it’ll get even better.

Skype has teamed up with MySpace to create MySpaceIM with Skype, which adds Skype voice calls to the MySpace instant messaging tool. The collaboration turns MySpace into the world's largest voice-connected community.

As a result, MySpace and Skype users will be able to make high quality calls to each other for free, and millions of MySpace users in 20 countries will be able to tap into Skype to make pretty cheap calls to landlines and mobile phones around the world.

In addition, MySpace users will be able to set up a SkypeIn number, voicemail and call forwarding. You also connect your MySpace profile to your Skype account. This makes it easy to share your MySpace profile and avatar with Skype contacts. Of course, Skype users will be able to call MySpace users as well.

So when does all this happen? Soon. By mid-November, you’ll be able to download MySpace IM with Skype. You’ll have drum your fingers until then, but we think it’ll be worth the wait.

For more information, please see the press release.

Comments

The technical details seem a little sparse. Will this be a bridge between two seperate IM protocols, or will they be merged into one protocol? Can a Skype IM message be sent to a MySpaceIM user and vice versa?

the announcement is probably good news however I do have a concern around the actions of facebook which just recently removed a union chat or talk group off of facebook in the maritimes provinces of canada. It is conceivable that similar chat groups or discussion groups may be set up in skype. Will skpye give in and to corporate pressures or threats of lawsuits by corporations or companies who do not like the content of discussion group. This has already happened in England when a large corporation threated to sue an internet service provide if they did not take down a union web site whom they disagreed with. Similarly it happen in Canada in 2005 when Telus shut down its customer access to a server in the states in order to cut off a web site they did not like. Any comments

It's December 1. Where is it?

using RSS
via Bloglines
using Newsgator
with MyYahoo
with Google
with My AOL
with Anothr.com
with netvibes
with email	Get email updates

Skype and MySpace team up

Comments

Comment on this post