Skype are trialling running adverts within your Skype calls. How anyone could imagine this is a good idea is quite beyond me.

We’re excited to introduce Conversations Ads as an opportunity for marketers to reach our hundreds of millions of connected users in a place where they can have meaningful conversations about brands in a highly engaging environment. Skype is already at the center of meaningful conversations, where families, friends, and colleagues spend time together.

With Facebook’s disappointing appearance on the U.S. stock market, it’s as good a time as any to look at how they plan to make money. This is interesting if you are an investor for obvious reasons, but it should also concern you as a user: it reflects how safe Facebook is as a social investment for the long term and how desperate they need to be to make money from you.

Three Things That Should Trouble Apple

The three problems relate to content. However, this particular paragraph sums up all my frustration with the current music/video/book situation:

Right now I’m still juggling a bunch of bullshit that I really shouldn’t need to. Basically, I’ll pay you money if you provide me content I’d like to enjoy. There’s so many weird and random restrictions on that simple deal that I still don’t know how it’ll ultimately play out.

One to Watch, my new iPhone application for noting down films you want to watch at lightening speed, is now available on the app store. Get it now for free, before I work out that it’d be good to make some money on this thing.

It’s been quiet here for the last couple of months. Something’s been brewing, as the more astute of you may have noticed. That something is another iPhone app, One to Watch.

Another app designed to scratch a particular itch I have. Recently I closed my Lovefilm account, which I used to use as a holding pen for films I wanted to see. I needed something to replace it, and a search of the app store came up lackluster.