Cringley on the Ebay/Skype Deal. Really, I still haven’t seen a convincing arguement that this was a great deal for Ebay but Cringely, as usual, makes some great points. My only thought: This is Ebay’s in-road to make PayPal actually competitive with Visa/MC. If Skype becomes the defacto VOIP for 500 million paying customers (instead of 50 million barely-paying customers) and they’re all using PayPal, then PayPal becomes an equal pay method in the mind of customers. Then eBay is taking VISA/MC’s small cut on piles of new transactions.