{"id":54,"date":"2005-07-10T18:21:33","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T01:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2005-12-23T20:55:32","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T04:55:32","slug":"gizmoproject-threat-to-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/10\/gizmoproject-threat-to-skype\/","title":{"rendered":"GizmoProject &#8212; Threat to Skype?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/projectgizmo-logo.gif\" width=\"237\" height=\"90\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"ProjectGizmo Logo\" \/><br \/>\nWhile hopping about the Internet, some people said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmoproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">GizmoProject<\/a> is to be a good contender to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skype<\/a>&#8216;s world domination plan.<\/p>\n<p>Given that it supports as many platforms (less Windows CE, which nobody really cares anyway) as Skype (and is already available for Mac OSX), it&#8217;s probably the most attractively designed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voip\" target=\"_blank\">VoIP<\/a> client based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Session_Initiation_Protocol\" target=\"_blank\">SIP<\/a> (Session Initiation Protocol) technology, which is pretty much the standard in the VoIP industry. Skype uses its own proprietary protocol; and seeing how successful Skype is in the market, there&#8217;s no reason to believe Skype will provide its API to developers anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>However, since nobody is using this yet, I will hold out until enough people bug me to install it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/gizmo-callout.gif\" width=\"225\" height=\"204\" class=\"centered\" alt=\"ProjectGizmo call-out screenshot\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While hopping about the Internet, some people said GizmoProject is to be a good contender to Skype&#8216;s world domination plan. Given that it supports as many platforms (less Windows CE, which nobody really cares anyway) as Skype (and is already available for Mac OSX), it&#8217;s probably the most attractively designed VoIP client based on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/10\/gizmoproject-threat-to-skype\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GizmoProject &#8212; Threat to Skype?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,14,3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff","category-linuxunix","category-mac-osx","category-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}