November 14, 2006
Skype Troubles? Make Room For SightSpeed
Since eBay bought Skype not so long ago, the story goes that much of the old guard management has left. The International Herald Tribute (and others) wrote about this and Andy Abramson weighed in on the goings on. His conclusion (hope I'm not misquoting) is that eBay has enough smarts to make Skype profitable, but they need someone to run the show, to be a proper disruptive force. That is, to continue being the disruptive force that Skype was before the purchase and can hopefully still be.
Well, I agree with that assessment, but the company I'm gunning for as the up and coming disruptive force is SightSpeed. Their video calling quality arguably tops Skype's. Sure, they don't have the addon architecture that Skype has recently moved up to with Skype 3.0 for Windows Beta, but maybe that's coming - assuming I haven't somehow missed something on SightSpeed's website. Otherwise, if the ability to develop addons for Sightspeed appears in the next few releases, I think that they will become the primary disruptive force in the soft VoIP niche. (I vaguely recall something that one of the support staff told me a few months back about the existence of an SDK or API or some such, but I think it's only available on a selective basis.)
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