Overheard at EBay Devcon: a pending, big Tuesday announcement at EBay Live. Andy thinks they’re going to announce the worldwide integration of Skype Click to Call within the EBay portal. It makes a ton of sense to do that, from a strategy perspective, but is it a big announcement? Other possibilities: a big partnership announcement, an acquisition, or a tight Paypal / Skype integration. Or, perhaps the announcement will be a tight Paypal / EBay / Skype integration. Imagine looking at an item on EBay, Skyping the vendor, and concluding the transaction by pressing the pay button in Skype.
Exciting stuff!
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
