Mike and Allen discuss the implications of theYahoo-eBay partnership announced this week.  Is it a partnership that could have been forged awhile ago or an alliance necessitated by today's circumstances.

I just don’t see the match between eBay and Skype. The other players who recently jumped into the VOIP game—Yahoo!, MSN, etc..—have fully fledged consumer communications platforms which include email (with a lot of storage), Instant Messaging and voice chat. eBay has none of those vital ingredients. In addition, there is no social network platform or blogging platform upon which it can build.

Honestly, I think a company such as Myspace or Friendster is a more viable candidate to buy a VOIP company. I doubt it’s in Myspace’s future and I doubt Friendster has that kind of money. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.