Skype introduces SkypeFind and Skype Prime and takes on Directories and eBay…
Rating: Skypin’ data
Skype has gone beyond traditional voice to introduce SkypeFind and SkypePrime.
SkypeFind is a new community generated service. It allows users to review and log their favourite business. This will ensure that whenever they are logged into Skype they have business address with them. Users can also rate and review businesses so that other users can view comments or endorsements.
Since launch SkypeFind has attracted more than 4500 listings in over 134 countries and expects these listings to increase to over one million by the end of the year.
SkypePrime, currently in BETA, is a new marketplace for sellers and retails to communicate and make money selling their own intelligence.
Giving millions of people and small businesses the opportunity to charge
for their expertise, Skype Prime is a new direction for the company. Skype
Prime offers Skype users the chance to make money and reach potential
customers all over the world provided they are using Skype 3.1 for Windows. It
is easy to set up and you can determine your own per minute or one-off fees.
Skype Prime fees are paid using PayPal and subject to a 30% charge by Skype
for using the Skype Prime service.
What we think
Wow. Slowly but surely Skype is becoming a directory mobile search company offering similar services to those of yell.com etc. It is also further venturing into new territory as the eBay of knowledge by selling intelligence to small business via a PayPal revenue share (30% to Skype) model. It’s definitely innovative and extremely new. But it’s still only early days. More competition is to come and Skype is creating its own triple play services of voice, directory and IM.
From the press release:
Sten Tamkivi, general manager of eCommerce for Skype says, “SkypeFind
brings the global community to your doorstep. Skype users love sharing
knowledge with one another because it is so liberating and empowering.
SkypeFind is also so easy to use - even if you’re abroad. If you’re traveling
in France and you want to find a great restaurant, just log onto Skype, click
on SkypeFind and you have recommendations you can trust, direct from the Skype community.”
Tamkivi adds that Skype Prime “is all about making the world a smaller
place. If you are a financial advisor or astrologer, a sports coach or a tutor
and you want to sell your expertise online, Skype Prime opens up a whole new
market by letting you sell your knowledge to Skype’s global community.”
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