Yet another VOIP player has hit the radar. Theglobe.com announced today Craigslist buyers and sellers can communicate by downloading its VOIP app at www.tglophone.com. According to the press release Craigslist users can download the app and after logging in a "phone icon" will appear next to their items for sell. Other Craigslist users who have downloaded the app will then be able to communicate via pc-to-pc if they should choose, which is obviously from the same mold as eBay/Skype. It is interesting that although eBay is an investor in Craigslist that they either did not present the idea to Craigslist or were snubbed. Regardless of Craigslist popularity, since tglophone is yet another VOIP app needing to be downloaded we view this a meeger step forward considering this appears to be a non-exclusive agreement. While it is possible tglophone may gain some new users, Skype, Yahoo!, AIM, MSN and Google have no reason to be shaking in their boots.
Cool. Now Nigerian scammers can call me for free on my Craigslist ads.
And to think what this will span on those kinky matchmaking ads.
Posted by: Scott Donahue | April 03, 2006 at 09:26 PM