LIVEdigitally

Yahoo! Bought Dialpad recently. Dialpad was a California based VoIP company that will soon enable Yahoo Messenger to not only do PC-to-PC calls but phone to phone or pc etc.

I feel that this isn’t the first type of deal that we’re going to see during this slow and painful VoIP movement. Using the internet to transfer voice in real time has had a few players to date. But I still feel that the big guys are sitting on their hands until the window of opportunity opens and mass market is ready to move into the next thing.

iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, Wal*Mart, Seven-11, and now Google. If you didn’t recognize the trend on this string of company names then just crawl back to that cave you were living in for the last few years. Oh wait, there’s a new member to the ‘I want to sell mp3’s on the internet’ list, and you guessed it right, Google. Digg.com reports that multiple sources confirm this rather late entry into the game. But then again, Google isn’t usually first at doing anything, they’re just the best at what they do*.

*See Internet Search (google.com), Email (gmail.com), Maps (maps.google.com), and Photo Management (Picasa 2)