MySpace teams up with Skype

The popular social networking site MySpace has enlisted the internet phone service Skype, it has been reported.

Under the collaboration, users of MySpace will be able to call each other for free using Skype, beginning at the end of November this year. The service will also allow MySpace members to pay to place calls to landlines and mobiles. Michael van Swaaij, the chief executive of Skype, was quoted by the NY Times as saying: "We are interconnecting the world's largest voice network and the world's largest video and social network."

"It feels like an obvious fit." When MySpace members use the Skype pay service the two outfits will split the revenues, though the ratio of the split is not known. Skype currently has approximately 220 million users, whereas MySpace has over 110 million. The internet auction company eBay bought Skype for $.3.1 billion in 2005.