{"id":1112,"date":"2009-11-13T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2009-11-13T10:00:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T10:00:48","slug":"google-has-acquired-gizmo5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/google-has-acquired-gizmo5\/","title":{"rendered":"Google has acquired Gizmo5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gizmo5 is another (a better?) VOIP, like Skype.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/google-welcomes-gizmo5.html\">official announcement is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably a good thing for Michael Robertson, the entrepreneur who started Gizmo5 and Lindows\/Linspire.\u00a0 Hopefully it will take some of the pressure off him.<\/p>\n<p>A shame it had to be the big one.  Apart from the issues raised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google-watch.org\/\">google-watch<\/a>, it seems to be against Robertson&#8217;s raison d&#8217;etre: open and fair.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Googol\">googol<\/a> is a number = 1&#215;10^100.\u00a0 Goodbye skype?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gizmo5 is another (a better?) VOIP, like Skype.\u00a0 The official announcement is here. It&#8217;s probably a good thing for Michael Robertson, the entrepreneur who started Gizmo5 and Lindows\/Linspire.\u00a0 Hopefully it will take some of the pressure off him. A shame it had to be the big one. Apart from the issues raised by google-watch, it &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/google-has-acquired-gizmo5\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google has acquired Gizmo5<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":[26,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict","category-business-entrepreneurship-venturecapital","category-responsible-investing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-hW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}