Skype and iotum
Source: saunderslog.com
I have to admit to being underwhelmed by the EBay announcements of the last couple of days. A teaser peek at the EBay / Paypal integration, and click to call in PayPal advertising. As Luca Fillighedu pointed out, if all they wanted was click to call, then $4 billion was a little bit excessive.
Both Luca, an. Jim Courtne. at SkypeJournal made an iotum / Skype connection. Luca points out that an iotum / Skype integration would allow sellers to be always available. Phi. Wolff speculated that Skype might cause a flood of EBay calls and Jim messaged me that iotu. could be the key to managing those calls on the basis of value to the seller. These are all great thoughts.
Naturally, at this point it’s difficult for us to do anything with Skype until the much promised call transfer API is available. According to the presentations, that won’t be until late this year and initially it will be only Skype to Skype. Until then, we’ll be focusing our efforts elsewhere. It’s unfortunate, because we’d like to be Skype developers.
