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Thursday, September 29, 2005
  Spotlight - Come and Visit
Digital business is quickly becoming the method of choice for any enterprise to offer products and services on-demand to their market. I believe, that competition is the natural evolution in the way we will interact with, share and purchase products and services within the fastest moving market in the world today. Communications, content, commerce and search are the challenging activities today and different business models associated with them lead to a natural segmentation of the marketplace.
 
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
  New Presence - Adding a Human Touch to the Site
Showing your Skype status on Jyve.com or any other website in real-time makes it even more easy now to start communicate with other Skype users enabled to demonstrate voice and presence awareness on “Skype interactive” websites. It's a new platform and a perfect communication meeting place which is and will be built around the use of voice on top of Skype for interacting with the Web for both Social and Professional collaboration.

Presence means to see when to leave a voice mail, and when to try talking and Jyve won the competition and the top award for a plugin that lets webmasters enable Skype call forwarding, presence, browser synchronization and auto-responding features on their sites.

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Monday, September 12, 2005
  New Combination - eCommerce and Communications
Recently acquired by eBay and once integrated into their marketplace, Skype will strengthen eBay’s global information and communications network and as a result, it has the potential to increase the velocity of trade on eBay, especially in categories that require more involved communications. Monetizing eCommerce communications on a pay-per-call basis could leverage service oriented business models and open up new categories of eCommerce and PayPal makes it much easier for users to pay for Skype fee-based services - numerous business perspectives are evolving.

Since the introduction of the Skype Voice Services Program and with the adoption of Internet standards like VoIP for transport and VoiceXML as the application language, now anyone can build creative new voice services for the Skype network like the horoscope of the day or international delivery tracking systems.
 
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
  New Networks - Voice/data convergence
IP Telephony and VoIP, new communications technologies made possible by the Internet lead to new classes of business applications. The entire voice and data networks are moving towards a single network and of course there will be opportunities and threats.

Yearly price decreases for data services and for voice services can be expected.
However as traffic grows per year network budgets on networks designed for two-way, on-demand access will grow as well per year....
 

'People's behavior in researching buying related information and decision making has changed during the last months. Their favorite methods include researching buying related price comparison sites, RSS-feeds, review sites, blogs and travel sites, while consumer generated content and peer-reviews have a huge impact on their decision making.'
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Name: Andreas Engel
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