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Match Made: MySpace and Skype

Just last Wednesday, MySpace and Skype announced plans to jointly bring free Internet voice communications to the social networking site.

The two companies collaborated and came up with MySpaceIM with Skype, a new product that integrates MySpace's instant messaging - which has 25 million registered users - with Skype's free telephone service. MySpace clients will be able to make free internet calls to MySpace or Skype users.

Adding Skype voice services to MySpace's IM system will not require MySpace users to download additional Skype software.

The voice chat service will let MySpace users call others in the social network as well as Skype users.

MySpace IM with Skype will take advantage of the MySpace’s personal privacy settings which limits calls to friend lists. Users can also choose to allow only those people they have added to their Skype personal contact list to call them.

MySpaceIM with Skype will be released in November and will allow MySpace users to access Skype's fee-based products, including voice mail services and the ability to use landlines and cell phones.

Currently MySpace is the world's largest social network with about 110 million monthly active users. Skype has about 220 million registered users. One can only imagine what the numbers will look like when the two get to harmonize.

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