The questions are beginning to swirl about Skype's future as a property of eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) I for one think it's high time for Meg Whitman and crew to put that lumbering ox on the butcher's block. The latest in a long painful series of failures and foibles for the once overpriced Skype VOIP system is eBay's recent scolding of some of it's members for placing Jajah telephony buttons within their item listings to effectively allow the member to member communications which Skype was at one time slated to accomplish.
A report by Stuart Corner of itWire states that, "According to Jajah, eBay has informed some of its users that placing Jajah Buttons on offers within the eBay marketplace is not allowed." Apparently Jajah buttons violate a long standing eBay policy against links to live chat systems. Free communication among eBay members is discouraged. Jajah co-founder Daniel Mattes, said: "We will work on behalf of our users to ask eBay to reconsider." I'm afraid to say that if eBay frowns upon Google shirts at their eBay live event, they'll probably continue to stand in the way of Jajah buttons in their item listings also.

A recent Bloggingstocks post by Beth Gaston Moon points towards a brighter future for Skype based on the words of Meg Whitman. I suppose anything is possible but this blogger thinks that if eBay doesn't unload Skype and do it quickly, they will be stuck with the world's largest pink elephant ever. For now at least, someone with some communications savvy could take hold of Skype and still mold it into something with some mentionable growth potential. As eBay clings willfully to Skype, technology threatens to overtake Skype dead in it's tracks in the hands of a management team which is in need of circumspect evaluation. Some people might want you to think that Skype's revenue increase of 96% year over year is something to crow about but if you recall, for the last two years previous, Skype did about nothing for eBay's bottom line and a 96% increase of nothing isn't much.