Talking with Skype

Google Talk's got a new gig. Google and eBay have signed an agreement around text-based advertising and "click-to-call" advertising, in which Google Talk and Skype will power voice calls between customers and merchants. (Read the full press release here.)

Just as exciting are our plans to explore interoperability between Google Talk and Skype, making it easier for our users to chat with one another. This is just another step in our commitment to interoperability via open, industry standards.

Lewis Lin
Product Marketing Manager, Google Talk

From: http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2006/08/talking-with-skype.html

This is at least googles first step to teaming up with another IM / VOIP provider and bringing IMing closer to email so any one can IM anyone from any service. Way to go ebay and google, well I'm ditching my skype account.