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October 21, 2005

Meg Whitman: "Voice phone calls to be free within years"

Reuters: Voice phone calls to be free within years: eBay CEO

"In a few short years, users can expect to make telephone calls for free, with no per-minute charges, as part of a package of services through which carriers make money on advertising or transaction fees, eBay's chief executive said on Wednesday..."

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Dave interesting.

Bubble might be a word.

Commodity and mediation are two that stick in my head. No doubt that the spend does not justify the gain at the moment. It's lightyears short.

Opinion based. Competitive advantage is about moving something from zero sum to positive some gaining short terms supernormal profits. Why did Niklas sell? Was something rotten? Rotting? Dead? For sure the micro economics of Skype work/ed, sic. (Consumers drive demand). Maybe they realised that the NAT issues create to many issues when trying to upscale to corporates.

Screwed the pooch is mild.

I wonder do pirranah have visions?

The Cat and the pirranaha. Percieved Titan versus prey. Titan takes prey, but pays the price by death, stemming from 1000 cuts.

Markets will be unmerciful in the end.

Tom

Posted by: Tom at October 21, 2005 12:37 PM

I've been thinking about this, and ol' Meg really has really screwed the pooch. Rather than pissing away $4 bln on Skype, she should have been figuring out ways to package and sell historical auction data. This data would be hugely valuable to people across many industries (not to mention collectors, insurance adjusters, financial auditors, and historians) and their incremental cost for this revenue is almost zero.

Instead, she's dragged them into an industry which she herself believes will produce little to no revenue as a service offering and is only tangentially relevant to ebay's core mission.

This is why having the general public investing in companies they don't understand is dumb: the companies end up with more money than they can intelligently allocate. Can we say bubble?

Posted by: Dave Troy at October 21, 2005 11:23 AM

I have to comment that this is hardly a visionary future statement. My cat recently communicated something similar. Sounds like the CEO hasn't quite figured the peer-2-peer functionality of the net quite yet. Humm, hardly a ground breaking story.

Tell her to take a look at Skype, you know that place they just purchased for the marketing department! No worries, it does NAT traversal, so no need to call desktop support! :)

Tom.

Ps: No not NAT the receptionist.

Posted by: Tom at October 21, 2005 10:30 AM

October 21, 2005

Meg Whitman: "Voice phone calls to be free within years"

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