Fring

Why took it so long? Finally an application to combine all major instant message applications. And the best using fring: it can be installed on smartphones. Even on an iPhone. You may ask: What is the deal? Well, Voice over IP. If I am outside Switzerland, I will use Skype-out to have a call. At almost no cost. Now, that will be the nightmare of cell phone providers.

Stumbled: eBay selling Stumbleupon

When eBay aquired the recommendation site for websites Stumbleupon it seemd to be one of those shopping tours that brought e.g. Skype to them. Now they seem to have enough of that stumbling and to resell that aquisistion. Leads me to question like: What does Skype have to do with the core business of eBay? When will they sell this multi-million-USD-consumer and get rid of a business that does not lift off? 

Counting to 120….