skype is only a good option if they want users. because the only appeal of skype is the userbase. really. if facebook has the penetration everyone believes they have, skype would be irrelevant. buy any other media streaming company with an actual decent codec and the rest is commodity.
Assuming you are right about the tech (I have no idea), it's not necessarily a simple 'user acquisition.' I have a facebook account that I rarely use and a skype account that's always on. If logged in to skype meant logged in to facebook I would become a very active facebook user. I can't gauge the value of that to facebook because it's still not entirely clear how they make money (at least not the kind of money inve…
I was mostly questioning how much users (or actual real users that actually uses the site) there are in reality. not in the make believe news lives in.