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# Open talk
- URL: https://werd.io/open-talk/
- Published: 2006-08-29T08:52:02.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:01:14.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: General, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

<http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/29/open-talk/>

[Skype and Google Talk are to interoperate](http://voip.gigaom.com/2006/08/28/skype-google-talk-to-interop/). This is good news, not only for users of both systems, but for the Internet at large: [Google Talk runs on open standards](http://www.google.com/talk/developer.html). Such a deal could mean Google Talk serves as a gateway between Skype and other clients that run on open standards, for example [Gizmo](http://www.gizmoproject.com/).

A global, interoperable, free voice network would not be a small thing: very bad news for the phone companies, perhaps, but excellent news for us.