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Read at TechCrunch … this is great! In a move similar to the release of the GMaps API, Google is now messing with the VoIP world. Think how easy this is going to make it to integrate chat with all kinds of web and non-web apps (text and voice calls). Think of the hybrids – click on the icon on the map to call the marked location is obvious, then think social networking sites, then games and community. We’re going to see tons of creative applications of this API.

Important to note is that this release includes a peer-to-peer technology layer as well. Another big door opener. That, and the fact that the API is under a Berkeley style license – it can be used for commercial as well as free apps – and woo hoo!

Google has also just changed the rules for Skype and other VoIP providers, much like they did in the mapping world not so long ago.

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