Monday, July 4, 2011

Technical directions

Facebook announces integration with Skype.

What is next? Twitter integrated with Wikipedia?

The obvious problem with this is that Skype is a utility and FB is a platform that has morphed from being a list of your true friends into a promotional tool of connectivity and a platform for ap development - like iphone and andriod.

So instead of making better distinct products, the software giant are combining essentially into homogenised communications platforms that are remarkably similar in effect (how we use them). They all essentially want to be our phone company?

Meantime, Google fights its war on six fronts.

Strangely, that opens up opportunities for innovation.

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