Comments on: At Skype, Nightmare (almost) before Christmas

By: Is Skype a Bad Network Neighbor? | Voxilla

Is Skype a Bad Network Neighbor? | Voxilla — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:34:44 +0000

[...] the Ebay/Skype personnel shuffle — Skype’s “nightmare before Christmas” as Om Malik called it — has to do with other people’s nightmares about what Skype might be doing to [...]

By: Oil paintings

Oil paintings — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:42:06 +0000

Skype has been a significant and valuable part of our business for the past few years. Personally, it has become my greatest resource in contacting my clients. Now that I am hearing lots of news and gossips about the future of Skype I really feel like it will be gone after some time. I don’t even know what’s the good substitute for it.

By: gifts

gifts — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:02:05 +0000

Man, I’d love to be able to read the minutes of these meetings. I can’t see any reason why they need to axe these guys – but I don’t know the direction they’re trying to take. I suspect, though, that they’re making some big mistakes. I just hope Skype doesn’t lose it’s focus – doesn’t lose what made it so brilliant in the first place. Often when other companies take over, they want to come in with all their new ‘concepts’ and ideas and they actually ruin what made the company and product so good in the first place.

By: trademark registration

trademark registration — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:17:31 +0000

And now it looks like Google might purchase Skype. See this article: http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204200908. Interesting how Google is purchasing everything under the sun.

By: Static On Skype, Zennstrom Quits « GigaOM

Static On Skype, Zennstrom Quits « GigaOM — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:28:45 +0000

[...] of companies he has invested in via his fund, Atomico. He tried to fix things at Skype after he took back control in December 2006, but things haven’t worked out according to [...]

By: Bill Compton

Bill Compton — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:29:27 +0000

Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks

By: Jacques FROISSANT Altaïde

Jacques FROISSANT Altaïde — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:55:00 +0000

Ebay fait le ménage chez Skype…

D'après ce post d'Om Malik (généralement très bien informé), Ebay aurait déclenché une réorganisation de Skype (recentrage du marketing sur Londres d'après le blog Skype Journal) les amenant à se séparer de 14 cadres historiques (dont Jé…

By: Mohammed Jubaer Arif

Mohammed Jubaer Arif — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:27:40 +0000

Skype is already facing many problems; I think the current one is their failure in deployment in cell network. In addition to that, with this nightmare I think ebay is losing the game.

By: Ian Horner

Ian Horner — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:43:03 +0000

One need not look farther than Apple and the Spindler years to see what happens to a successfully disruptive "tech" company when it's taken over by "Marketing" folks.

When I first heard that Skype was being aquired by eBay, I was willing to give it time to see what came of the acquisition; I haven't been disappointed yet. I only hope that Skype continues to improve it's client programs and network as it has in the past year.

Good luck Neo-Skype, if you fail where you've risen, I'm more than sure someone will be there to pick up the pieces…

(See Napster --> Kazaa, Spindler-Apple --> Jobs-Apple, SuprNova --> The Pirate Bay, for "torch grabbing" details)

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:00:52 +0000

very ugly? no. very tough? yes.

It's not the same as 2003 or 2004 when you didn't have competitors like vbuzzer or gizmo running the same kind of application but giving away most countries for free.

I just don't see skype will make any money any time soon.

By: Yuvamani

Yuvamani — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:14:22 +0000

Is this a premonition of what happens to youtube?

But hey, as long as most of the fired have made their money, Its ebays loss not theirs !

By: Suds McKenzie

Suds McKenzie — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:18:10 +0000

Hmmm…

This is just a hunch, but I would guess that the pre-acquisition fire-ees are being scraped up off the London sidewalks right about now, if their buddies haven't already tossed them into tart-filled private limos for the ride home (tart = hooker). As for the poor sods who joined Skype after the deal thinking they were joining a dynamic web 2.0 powerhouse, and then got fired a few weeks or months into the job, I guess they'll be telling their kids "it's scientific experiments for the lot of you".

By: Prashant

Prashant — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:18:05 +0000

if E Bay bought skype for the calibre of its team and the technical competency of its Enginner than its SAD to see this mass exodus of folks from skype .

on a second thought in Hi Tech Team is always a Enggineering team . Biz dev guy are always considered overpaid overhead .E Bay is doing what comes naturally to a Valley based firm ..deception . they are pretending that thebiz team has nothing to add to the core competency of Skype . In a world run by enggineer who can't talk to customer its sales team which face the world and field the furious customer on behalf of tech team and what they get once the party is over and cash is collected …This they get a boot and press and PR glorify it as a fat reducing,peanut butter,e baynization and god knows what

I hate to say it but some time i feel like killing some of My Heroes in Hi Tech

By: dmz

dmz — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:57:54 +0000

eBay playbook on acquisitions: – day 0-30: install senior eBay exec to run newco – day 0-90: some founders/of newco “retire” w/ $$$ – 3 mos: install more senior eBay execs as newco VPs – 3-6 mos: do title “re-leveling” of newco emps to match eBay titles (typically means 1-2 level drop in seniority) – 6-12 mos: remove “troublesome” old newco execs & VPs who don’t buy in to eBay culture – 12 mos + 1 day: assimilation complete.

By: Joetek

Joetek — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:47:35 +0000

Wow… That's gotta put a damper on everyone else left behind too. What would you be thinking if all these people got let go?

Phew…
When's the next round?

Not nice…

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:16:15 +0000

very ugly. And St Nick is off doing video.