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Skype Journal: Seven questions for VON exhibitors and speakers

September 19, 2005 06:13 AM

1. Do you believe consumer acceptance of Skype-like softphones signals a broader change in consumer expectations?

2. What do you think those expectations will look like in 2008?

3. How long do you believe it will take for those expectations to filter through to enterprise customers? to the industries that serve them?

4. Skype had to muddle through with very little capital. Do you think eBay's infusion of capital will make Skype more competitive or less?

5. Skype's product vision was very influenced by their hardware and portal partners. How do you think eBay will affect their product vision? In other words, what eBay and PayPal business and customer needs will Skype need to support?

6. What will Skype learn by Skypifying eBay's user experiences?

7. Will the rest of Skype's customers benefit? Will their developer partners benefit too?

8. As Skype, PayPal, and eBay harmonize their APIs and roll out more, they will be a platform. How will that platform, and the services and apps built on it, compete with Microsoft? With carriers? With enterprise telecom system makers? With interconnects?

9. Given these factors, what does this mean to you?

Skype Journal has been exploring these questions for a week. We're keeping that focus here at VON.

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