One should be able to post resume on facebook, etc, and then Monster.com etc to get persons resume from facebook, Orkut, etc directly. Instead of person looking at different job sites like Monster.com, jobster.com etc, employers can then search for employee-candidates on facebook, and advertise potential job-matches on facebook account.

From http://people20.blogspot.com/2007/11/monstercom-jobstercom-etc-getting.html

Using voip to call phones is very expensive outside of the US, so there is no reason to use voip.

(yes its cheaper to call fixed phones with voip than with a mobile phone, but as nobody uses fixed phones there is no one to call)

Sure there was an opportunity to get an existing app in front of millions of users, but now that the hype has died down, my sense from talking to others is that app developers (VoIP and otherwise) are stepping back, applying the lessons learned, and focusing on applications geared specifically for the social networking context.

I agree with other commenters that apps that are exclusively minute-stealing and click-to-call may never make sense in the Facebook or any web-based social networking context, but there are many other applications for VoIP that will, and the surface is just being scratched.

What is certain is there are a bunch of smart people working hard, being creative, and innovating, even collaborating, in a space where there is tons of room for innovation and the killer apps are out there to be discovered.

That doesn’t sound “bleak” at all – rather I am looking forward to the next wave of apps that result from both the moderate successes and failures of apps to date.

It’s no coincidence that Vonage’s core value proposition has always been interpreted as “Cheaper Phone Calls”. Woo-Hoo-WooHooHoo Indeed….

I work in the industry on the business side, and the vast majority of our clients are not even utilizing VoIP on the WAN side because there is no compelling business case for doing so, and that is actually fine. There is more than enough value on the LAN side, in terms of business process integration and gains in productivity if the tools are properly implemented.

I think we should sh*tcan the term “VoIP” and adopt “IP Voice” or something similar. VoIP is typecast and that is a big hurdle to overcome in the short term.

Instead “communicate” should begin to reign, and VoIP is one part of that. As noted somewhere above, IM, media, email, etc are all part of that “communication”.

All we need is a dynamite handset that wirelessly hooks into our digital communication path and connects as easily as, say, IM and “phone calls” will be relegated to the history books about the nineteenth century where they belong.

VoIP makes economic sense due its ability to use that communication path. We just need a step or two more to make it THE voice communication method.

What you don’t get is that the reason your long distance is so cheap is because of VoIP. A better rephrasing may be “Actually the situation for consumer VoIP is pretty bleak.”

You will use VoIP, you just won’t be conscious that you are doing so. I’m about to deploy VoIP in my business and it will be invisible to my customers, but I will have a much more flexible phone system.

Three paths for voip:

• Skype to Skype calls, or similar voip to voip.

• Voip with services for companies.

• Voip over mobile phone networks. But this one will be a battle in each country.

If I did more international calling, the economics would be more alluring, but again… I usually default to asynchronous communication due to the time differences involved.

And forget using Facebook to connect- there’s enough noise on that site- I wouldn’t have the mental bandwidth to separate the sincere communication from the SuperPokes. Then again, I’m ancient by FB standards, the SocNet equivalent of the curmudgeon at the bar reminiscing about the Brooklyn Dodgers…