As I was driving along pondering the imponderables, I suddenly realized the folks talking about the Multicore Crisis have gotten it all wrong.  For those who haven’t heard of it, the Multicore Crisis is basically concern about what happens as ch…

Someone recommended me a US based company, called, DAMAKA. I downloaded their app yesterday and it has worked out really well for me. I have friends and business contacts in other parts of the world… so we needed to move on to some other app… damaka’s the one for me!

I have almost 75% of my buddies moved over to damaka…. except a few die-hard skype lovers, they all love this app. It has all the feature you will need at-work or at-home…

http://www.damaka.com

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I signed up, but does anyone have experience with them? Their voip rate is the cheapest I found thus far. I will still use skype, but a secondary back up wouldn’t hurt.

“If anyone can explain why eBay didn’t follow the market please feel free to do so. The “market correction” as some put it (for the rest of us the Sub-Prime lending fiasco) has spooked the market and investors have become easily spooked over just about anything remotely negative.”

eBay’s core business still carries the “fleabay” taint. An emerging sub-prime effect could ripple onto business segments and/or companies with similar perceptions about the viability of serving less-than-desirable consumers.

Skype is a small portion of eBay’s business, but represents the future. I can see how a tech crisis like Skype’s outage, perception about eBay as a company and a bad day in the market could result in a $1Bn value loss.

subprime crisis —> home foreclosures —> higher home inventories —> lower market prices on homes

This will in turn affect “prime” borrowers, usually real estate developers who attempted to capitalize on the housing market. Many of their projects were analyzed on inflated housing prices, and as they fall, so do their margins.

That is the effect on the housing industry, but it spreads to other aspects of capital markets as well.

Sorry to digress a bit, but I am more than happy to answer any questions.

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Take a look at this chart, which shows eBay and DAQ with equal (3mo) performance at the beginning of August. Both stocks showed a 0% gain since late May.

Since then, eBay has had higher rallies and shallower pull backs. eBay is up 1% (over 3mo) while the DAQ is down 4%.

Yesterday, folks were buying the stocks that tanked since they looked like good values. Whereas eBay has been pretty level while everything else is dropping. So the vultures who were out yesterday ignored it. But I wouldn’t ignore it. As things turn around, people are going to flood into a stock like eBay that showed relative strength through this period and IMO is a good value buy.

Cheers.

Really, does the future of Ebay, a site riddled with keyword spammers and out-of-control powersellers, in any different position now than it was 2 months ago, when got into this dust up with Google: (http://www.tech...oogle-and-wins/)?

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"Does Skype matter?" is the question on the plate this morning. Jason Calacanis, A-list Webulebrity and better-search engine builder, believes no. In a comment left yesterday here on CenterNetworks he said, "Is the Skyp outage that big n…