{"id":276,"date":"2006-07-31T14:52:13","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T21:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/wp\/?p=276"},"modified":"2006-07-31T14:52:13","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T21:52:13","slug":"gizmo-seems-pretty-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2006\/07\/31\/gizmo-seems-pretty-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Gizmo Seems Pretty Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After a spotty RedMonk stand-up meeting call this morning with all 3 of us, Steve<\/a> and I just tried out Gizmo<\/a>. It seems quite nice, and definitly more featureful than Skype.<\/p>\n

We did cut out a couple times on both ends — but it was a delay instead of a complete drop of content. Recording was super-easy too: just click record, and it dumps a WAV in a directory. That’s much easier than the usual combo of programs I use to record Skype calls.<\/p>\n

The conference option is slightly more complex, but gives you a “normal” phone number for people to call into. That is, we could start doing more podcast recordings and just give out a normal conference phone number for guests (or ourselves when we’re away from a computer) to call into.<\/p>\n

As someone who spends a lot of time futzing with getting podcast recording setup, both of these things are huge for me.<\/p>\n

More importantly, the potential for making my voice-life easier and more inline with the rest of my online life makes me suddenly extremely interested in SIP and Asterisk<\/a>. As you may have heard me complaining in 4-letter word tirades before, I really dislike American telcos: their innovation rate seems shockingly slow and their lock-everything-down mentality is anathema to, well, how I think things should be done.<\/p>\n

I’ll have to use it for several weeks before I can make a real judgement about it, but so far, it seems pretty cool. And check out the Adium integrations<\/a>. OS X screenshots on the front page, Adium integration…it’s as if Gizmo is after my heart ;><\/p>\n

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Technorati Tags: gizmo<\/a>, voip<\/a>, sip<\/a>, asterisk<\/a><\/p>\n

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