Comments on: eBay’s Skype Detour http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/10/01/ebays-skype-detour/ Jeff Nolan's take on investment, innovation, entrepreneurship and the technology industry Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:56:48 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Peter Antypas http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/10/01/ebays-skype-detour/comment-page-1/#comment-176212 Peter Antypas Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:56:12 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/10/01/ebays-skype-detour/#comment-176212 I spent 3 months working on a project at Hamilton Blvd and I experienced this first hand: ZERO integration effort. A total mismatch of vision and culture. Skype employees have their own building and nobody from eBay is really welcome there. eBay requires their employees to run Skype on their PCs but their coprorate firewalls don't even allow outbound UDP traffic which makes it impossible to take advantage of Skype's core features (P2P routing, etc). The last thing on the menu before I left was a plan to replace the internal PBX at eBay with Skype. Grasping at straws anyone? I spent 3 months working on a project at Hamilton Blvd and I experienced this first hand: ZERO integration effort. A total mismatch of vision and culture. Skype employees have their own building and nobody from eBay is really welcome there. eBay requires their employees to run Skype on their PCs but their coprorate firewalls don’t even allow outbound UDP traffic which makes it impossible to take advantage of Skype’s core features (P2P routing, etc).

The last thing on the menu before I left was a plan to replace the internal PBX at eBay with Skype. Grasping at straws anyone?

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]]> By: Kevin http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/10/01/ebays-skype-detour/comment-page-1/#comment-174111 Kevin Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:29:56 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/10/01/ebays-skype-detour/#comment-174111 Prior to the recent Skype upgrade I was scratching my head too wondering how/when/why wrt ebay's acquisition and plans. The write-down doesn't seam to be impacting the stock too much in the after market trading. Tomorrow's open will be telling... It seams to me that ebay's current need is more buyers (as that will attract more sellers- the rational behind buying Shopping.com). Skype with it's social graph offers a wonderful opportunity to attract more buyers. The inclusion of business directory search that includes product reviews within Skype is a step in the right direction. If only they would integrate shopping's epinions into skype to seed the reviews..... (there is more to say on this topic but battery is not permitting... Prior to the recent Skype upgrade I was scratching my head too wondering how/when/why wrt ebay’s acquisition and plans. The write-down doesn’t seam to be impacting the stock too much in the after market trading. Tomorrow’s open will be telling…

It seams to me that ebay’s current need is more buyers (as that will attract more sellers- the rational behind buying Shopping.com). Skype with it’s social graph offers a wonderful opportunity to attract more buyers. The inclusion of business directory search that includes product reviews within Skype is a step in the right direction. If only they would integrate shopping’s epinions into skype to seed the reviews….. (there is more to say on this topic but battery is not permitting…

]]> By: Andrew http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/10/01/ebays-skype-detour/comment-page-1/#comment-173997 Andrew Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:25:00 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/10/01/ebays-skype-detour/#comment-173997 There isn't one third party developer (this one included) that hasn't been standing on a box for years (long before eBay) begging, pleading and screaming at the top of our collective lungs for a platform (not client API) to build applications on. The scary part, even after the entire dev. community has asked and spelled it out, it is just now beginning to get some attention from a few enlightened within Skype. Tough rock is an understatement, it is a bloody mountain. https://developer.skype.com/RoadMap There isn’t one third party developer (this one included) that hasn’t been standing on a box for years (long before eBay) begging, pleading and screaming at the top of our collective lungs for a platform (not client API) to build applications on. The scary part, even after the entire dev. community has asked and spelled it out, it is just now beginning to get some attention from a few enlightened within Skype. Tough rock is an understatement, it is a bloody mountain. https://developer.skype.com/RoadMap

]]> By: eBay waves wand, Skype value disappears - - mathewingram.com/work http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/10/01/ebays-skype-detour/comment-page-1/#comment-173973 eBay waves wand, Skype value disappears - - mathewingram.com/work Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:01:25 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/10/01/ebays-skype-detour/#comment-173973 [...] Yahoo or Microsoft or someone like that, and he might just be right. Jeff Nolan thinks the company should turn it into a backend service-type offering, a la Amazon’s EC2. Tags: eBay, skype, [...] [...] Yahoo or Microsoft or someone like that, and he might just be right. Jeff Nolan thinks the company should turn it into a backend service-type offering, a la Amazon’s EC2. Tags: eBay, skype, [...]

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