After Facebook Video Calling, When Will Skype Come To Live

In that post published a few days ago on Skype's official blog, Jonathan Rosenberg, the Chief Innovation Strategist at the company, mentions how the company managed to bring "real virality" to video calling by making the process as simple and transparent as possible.

Now that Skype has managed to get Facebook to adopt its VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service, the then and there logical step would be to get Skype on Microsoft's own web-based platforms using the same framework.

The Live environment for instance

Embedding Skype into the Live environment for instance, is particularly interesting; tieing Hotmail, Live Messenger, Office Web Apps or even Internet Explorer with Skype could open the doors to a number of very tantalising prospects like real time, face to face document collaboration, inbrowser video calling etc.

The real deal breaker will come when Microsoft Lync communication suite and its Office business suite add native support for Skype and tighter integration.

Add Xbox Live and Windows Phone to the mix and you potentially have a communication platform that could rival, in breadth, network operators.

I have been musing and writing about innovation since 1999 back in my native country Mauritius, dreaming back in 1997 of a world full of avatars...