VoIP Now: Embedded VoIP: You've Got Gizmo Project In My LiveJournal

October 17, 2006

Embedded VoIP: You've Got Gizmo Project In My LiveJournal

FierceVoIP asks, Will bloggers want to talk to each other, referring to the fact that the LiveJournal weblogging platform now has Gizmo Project embedded into it. Users of LiveJournal (LJ) can see the online status of their "friends" and communicate either with voice or text chat, or leave a message.

If you want to try Gizmo Project for LJ Talk, you'll need a free LiveJournal account first, which involves a ridiculously hard to read captcha graphic (to prove you are human and not a spambot). Then you'll have to choose between two different types of free account or a paid one. (While I like MovableType, a cousin to LJ, I'm not a big fan of LJ.) Finally, you can download the clients (Win 2000, XP = 11.1 Mb; Mac OS X 10.3.9+ = 18.9 Mb). A microphone and headphones (or speakers) are obviously required.

Once you've downloaded and installed LJ Talk, when you run the client, your "presence" will register on your LiveJournal journal pages, to your LJ friends. (This is based on what I can tell from the LJ pages. Since this is essentially Gizmo Project, I have no plan to install it as well.) Now you need some friends to try it on. Go search for and invite people on LJ.

Will you be my friend? If you are like me and have no friends, you can at least use the client to voice post to your LiveJournal weblog, which is a nice feature. If you already have LJ friends, your contact list will be used to populate LJ Talk. I suspect though can't confirm yet that LJ Talk supports click-to-call, whereby someone can click on a "call me" type of button on your LJ journal web pages to initiate a VoIP call with you in your LJ Talk client.

By the way, you can also use a variety of other compatible clients to chat with someone on LJ Talk.

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October 17, 2006 in Networks, Services, Software | Permalink