Who will buy Skype, and why...
Robert Cringely has a relatively little known quasi blog, for some reason on www.pbs.org. The stuff is generally very good, and little noted.
Given Microsoft's recent acquisition of Teleo, this recent post about Skype is interesting and timely:
Expect Skype to be sold, another viral marketing success sucked up by big business. Expect it to go to either a major broadband provider or, more likely, to a big mobile carrier with no fixed telephone assets. And whoever buys Skype, expect them to throw money into making the company into even more of a multinational telecom headache than it currently is. (from Skyed on I, Cringely - read the whole thing!)
There even is a very well hidden RSS feed.
(Yes, remember the Cringley column in PC Week? Same guy!)
Comments
Have Skype,like it but awfully hard to find other users.Much better,nicer than Yahoo or Msn.Hopefully,if it's been sold,it'll always remain a freeware product.
Posted by: Bruce | August 31, 2005 11:03 PM
I am not sure I would call Cringely's column "relatively little known", as he made Slashdot's front page countless times.
But it's great read and he's not afraid to make fun speculations and predictions - he even admits when he's wrong!
Posted by: Catalin Rotaru | September 1, 2005 09:39 AM