A few days back, Om posted that Gizmo Project will make web based calling easy via a flash based client. This was an interesting piece of information on two counts. Earlier Om had reported that Adobe is working on a flash based IP Communications client. With this news, either Adobe is close to releasing their version or Gizmo Project has developed on themselves. If Adobe has developed it, I am assuming that they will bundle it with their free player. In that case, it is apparent that VoIP service providers become superfluous; Jeff Pulver’s holy grail of “Be your own phone company” can be realized. So the involvement of Gizmo Project is interesting by itself.
But alas! Soon enough Om corrected his story to say that Gizmo Project will be releasing a browser plugin and not a flash based client. But this has been done by others starting with Free world Dialup. Oh well, we have to wait for the real deal from Adobe.
Posted by aswath at December 5, 2006 03:36 PM