In the future we're talking about potentially also having Skype paid products available within the Web format that we saw here today, so we're very excited about it."Įvery month, Skype's users spend 300 million minutes making video calls, Bates said.
"We think this makes a lot of business sense as well," Skype CEO Tony Bates said. "It's a really healthy shift."Įxecutives at Skype, which was acquired by Microsoft in May for $8.5 billion, said the acquisition would introduce them to an enormous new audience and sell add-on services to them. "What I heard Mark say today is that Facebook is starting to focus more on the social aspect of social networking, whereas in the past they focused more on the networking and engineering," she said. She said the company's plans to build new services on top of their platform signaled a newfound maturity for the 7-year-old company. Susan Etlinger, an analyst at Altimeter Group, said Facebook's large user base would make its video-calling feature instantly competitive with Google's and other video chat services. The more time users spend on a site, the more valuable it is to advertisers. Google has more unique users, but they spend less time on the site than Facebook users do. The question is which Internet company will prove better at retaining users. Zuckerberg said Google's new product validated Facebook's own works, and that in the future social features would become an expected part of every application. Group video chat could be forthcoming, executives said, although on Skype's stand-alone product, that feature costs money to use. Google+ also includes a feature called Hangouts that enables group video chatting.įor starters, the Facebook-Skype partnership will only allow one-on-one chatting. Facebook users share twice as much today as they did a year ago, as measured by photos posted, comments written and other items.įacebook's announcements come on the heels of Google rolling out a new social offering, Google+, that duplicates many of the sharing functions found in Facebook. Zuckerberg said the shift was prompted in part by a surging demand for sharing information. "It's about what kind of cool stuff you're going to be able to build, and what kind of new social apps you're going to be able to build, now that you have this wiring in place." "The driving narrative for the next five years or so is not going to be about wiring up the world, because a lot of the interesting stuff has actually been done," he said.
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