Facebook has announced a partnership with Skype to add video chat to the social networking site.
The move is likely to be seen as a shot across the bow of Google, which recently launched a Facebook rival, Google+, also featuring video calling.
This is not the first time Facebook and Skype have teamed up - they already share some instant messaging tools.
Skype is in the process of being bought by Microsoft, which is a major shareholder in Facebook.
BBC News - Facebook adds Skype video chat feature
Steve, I think this is good...I think the whole search market needs a bit of a competition. Competition keeps people on their toes. Everyone knows facebook is slowly becoming a search engine. So a tie up with Microsoft makes sense...since MS are struggling to compete with Google on search. Ryan
Take it a step further, I wonder if Facebook can get the revenue to buy Bing out! It clearly can't compete with Google, but bolt it directly into Facebook and merge the two, and you have a powerful animal.
Never looked at it that way. However, I personally always thought Bing was and is pretty good. I realise that not everyone likes it. Bing and FB, now that could be something. By the way Google Plus is not available to the general public yet. I don't know why they do that...similar story with Wave. Ryan |
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