Gigaom: Fluid personal communication in the era of Facebook, Skype and Google+

This week’s announcement of Skype’s acquisition of GroupMe, and the recent introduction of Facebook’s Beluga-based Messenger, are part of something much bigger than group text messaging: The landscape of personal online communication is changing. The very communication paradigms we’re accustomed to — email, text messaging, chat and wall posts — are starting to be blurred and redesigned. In the next generation of social media interaction, users will communicate online in ways that better mirror their organic interactions in real life. Welcome to the age of fluid personal communication.

Read more from Yoav Shoham here: http://gigaom.com/2011/08/27/fluid-personal-communication-in-the-era-of-facebook-skype-and-google/