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Microsoft: Windows Live Messsenger: 325 million active users

Phil Wolff 27 February 2010 9:50 am

Jeff Kunins, Senior Director, Social Networking (Windows Live) at Microsoft (and Tellme alumnus), blogged some Live Messenger facts and figures. Monthly user behavior:

Status updates: 1 billion Profile picture updates: tens of millions monthly Emoticon packs: millions purchased monthly Web traffic from Messenger to Windows Live Profile, Home, and SkyDrive: 300 million unique

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Orphaning Skype for Windows Mobile users shows Leadership

Phil Wolff 26 February 2010 7:56 pm

UPDATE: Added explanation of cow photo.

When is Windows Phone 7 Series coming to market? September 2010? Seven months from now? That’s a long time to be making WinMobile users hate your brand. Or to keep investing in code that only runs on 6.5 with a short shelf life. In that spirit, Adobe announced it’s [...]

Skype’s All Business

Phil Wolff 26 February 2010 12:08 am

Guest post by Dave Michels, Verge1 CEO, @DaveMichels

Want to know where enterprise UC is headed, take a look at Skype now. It seems counter-intuitive at first, but Skype is consistently ahead of the enterprise pack. Skype discovered IM before the enterprise, as well as softphones, presence, and desktop video. Skype has been a consumer [...]

A 2009 history lesson: Mark Spencer on Skype and Asterisk

Phil Wolff 23 February 2010 10:42 pm

Mark Spencer’s speech to the Spring 2009 Emerging Communications Conference at the San Francisco Airport Marriott. His slides on Slideshare. eComm2010a looks hot and may sell out. I’ll be speaking, and so will thought leaders from Skype, Google, Cisco, and a host of others.

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The Skype Empire: Disintermediation Vehicle

Phil Wolff 19 February 2010 12:27 am

A guest post by Todd Carothers, VP, Product Management at CounterPath Corporation.

When we started BridgePort Networks (acquired by my current employer CounterPath), we knew the fixed-line voice services was starting to undergo a decline and mobile services would grow rapidly (over 4.6B users today). We also knew that pricing pressure would start to [...]

Business | financials | Skype

Projection: Skype could hit a $1Billion Run Rate in 2010

Phil Wolff 14 February 2010 9:22 pm

Projection: Skype could hit a $1Billion Run Rate in 2010, originally uploaded by PhilWolff.

Skype could have their first $250 million quarter between 2010q3 and 2011q2 based on simple linear and polynomial trend lines. Skype’s rates of user acquisition have grown steadliy, and price per minute has been stable within a narrow range.

Trendlines ignore [...]

Three: One Billion Skype Minutes Served

Phil Wolff 9 February 2010 4:57 pm

Skype‘s Linda Summers told Monday‘s Mobile Monday London audience that Hutchison‘s 3 mobile network served one billion Skype minutes on its 3 Skypephones and other Skype-enabled phones in the UK, Sweden, Italy, Austria, Australia and Hong Kong. Those Skype calls run through Skype’s Skype Lite servers, a potential Skype as a Web Service Platform.

Update: [...]