And as for not interfacing, with other things, I think you should do some more research… ever heard of Fring.com? There are some others too.

Skype is a voip application, with encrypted and very secure voice communication, that can run on your computer, a skype phone or cell phone. You can use Skype’s subscriptions to get a regular phonenumber and country-wide free calling for $3-$6 a month depending on what country you’re in.

That Skype happens to support some IM features is incidental, merely an added bonus and doesn’t mean it should interconnect with other messenger services. Other messenger services refuse to interconnect as well, unless you buy a program like trillian or use an open source app like Pidgin, that mimic MSN, Yahoo, AIM and other IM protocols, in order to combine them into one interface.

Granted, Ebay may not care about these distinctions, since they worry about ROI, which is only bad because Ebay overpaid for Skype. If you bought at the wrong price, you’ll be upside down in the deal. Selling the object in question, is just going to get the the visible signs of your mistake out of your sight, usually at the cost of a large writedown.

I think you personally don’t use Skype cause you haven’t understood what it is, and further, your article shows sloppy research and sloppy editing!

I vote you try writing version 2.0 of this article and put a little more work in it.