Gizmo is now offering free voice mail sent to your email address as an attachment and built in 64 kbps mono wav file recording capabilities Skype lacks. No text chat yet. But conferencing is already working too. It's open source. Sound is slightly lower fidelity to that of Skype's fantastic "like the other people are in the same room with you" super hi-fi sound. I still prefer talking on Skype simply because of the higher fidelity. Both fully cross platform of course. And both are free. They currently have complementary functionality that make both a must have - unless you don't think your computer is your phone. <http://gizmoproject.com> <http://skype.com> k