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Facebook, Skype Getting Really Friendly

cgriffin21 writes "Facebook and Skype are reportedly in talks over a deal that would integrate Skype calling capabilities into Facebook user accounts. Such an agreement would give both Skype and Facebook not only a leg up on rival VoIP and social networking services from the likes of Google, but also the combined force of two Internet-based services beloved by consumers. The talks, which were reported by All Things Digital on Wednesday, stem from Facebook's goal of merging IP communications and social networking communities more closely together. Facebook in recent weeks had also been rumored to be developing a mobile device of its own."

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  1. beloved? by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Funny
    >but also the combined force of two Internet-based services beloved by consumers.

    I'll leave it to someone else to do the Princess Bride thing?

    In Soviet Russia, skype and facebook consume YOU!

    1. Re:beloved? by e065c8515d206cb0e190 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I also keep in touch with my loved ones on my computer.

      Just not in the same way...

  2. Facebook beloved? by synthesizerpatel · · Score: 4, Funny

    About as much as Friendster, Myspace, Orkut, and Tribes and Geocities were I guess..

    If this trend continues interest in disco music will continue to sky-rocket!

  3. Friends? by DrData99 · · Score: 5, Funny

    OMG- Skype and Facebook are now Friends?!

    Like!

  4. Re:Magic by ZeroFactorial · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll tell you what it's going to do; it's going to Slap Chop your little Magic Jack into the afterlife, where it will meet Billy Mays, dressed in OxyClean bleached ultra-white angel clothes, buffing his harp with a ShamWow, and re-affixing it to his head with some Mighty Putty.

  5. The wave of the future: by M.+Baranczak · · Score: 3, Funny

    Twitter and Walmart.

    You heard it here first.

  6. Re:Magic by Nadaka · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...angel clothes...

    You fail. He would obviously be wearing a snuggy.