Gizmo Project

The Gizmo Project is an instant messaging and VOIP service.

There is a LiveJournal-branded version of Gizmo Project, Gizmo Project for LJ Talk, which is LJ's preferred LJ Talk client.

Gizmo Project allows PC-to-PC "calls" that use Voice Over Internet Protocol technology. It also offers Instant Messaging via the Jabber protocol.

Free "calls" to mobile and landline phones can be made using Gizmo Project if both users are "active."

An "active" user is one who makes ''a few ["phone calls"] per week with Gizmo Project. Free ["calls"] may originate from anywhere in the world, but must be to a qualifying number in one of the 60 countries for which the plan is offered. ["Calls"] must be made from the ["caller's"] contact list to either the "home phone" or "mobile phone" number the ["call"] recipient included in his or her profile, and both parties must have shared each others profiles with one another. If a ["call"] does not [qualify] as free under the All ["Calls"] Free plan, it will be subject to ["their"] regular low calling rates.'' (source)