An announcement going viral on the net and offline is that Google is cutting the umbilical cord between it and Gizmo5.

On TMCnet, the title of the article sharing the news is Gizmo is Dead, Long Live Google Voice. David Sims, a TMC contributor noted …

At the end of 2009, TMC’s Tom Keating blogged that “eWeek had an interesting interview with Google’s Vice President of Product Management Bradley Horowitz where Bradley said he was very enthusiastic about Google’s acquisition of Gizmo5, a company that unlike Skype adopted the industry SIP standard.

“Gizmo5 brings technological know-how to Google in the areas of VoIP, SIP, and termination. Further, Gizmo5 has a software client that makes Google Talk pale in comparison. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Google Talk phased out in favor of the Gizmo5 client. Perhaps even Gizmo5 will be renamed Google Talk for better branding.”

A survey has been shared asking for opinions, experience, and analysis of the situation. Techistan will post those thoughts as we receive them.

“Yo y mis amigos se estaban quedando en contacto con la familia y del negocio en Perú, Chile, Canadá, Japón y Australia, con números de teléfono de esas zonas. Google no ofrece teléfono numbers a la propiedad de esos países. Hemos tenido estos números de teléfono desde el año 2006. Estamos buscando a otro servicio, pero vamos a mantener nuestros números de teléfono. También tenemos que ser capaces de señalar otro servicio SIP. Necesitamos la voz de salida en algunos casos y la oportunidad de mantener a nuestros números de teléfono en todos los casos,” Rosarita Kapanga complains. “Debo comenzar mi negocio voip propia.”

Brian West, QA / Development Support and Consulting for freeSWITCH states, “I think its going to limit flexibility and I use Gizmo to forward my Google Voice to my Cudatel. I will greatly miss that feature.”

“I use a large variety of voice over IP services daily because our company serves about 18,000 or so of those type of providers. I do enjoy Google Voice and really just about Google everything. I even have a purple Droid phone from Credo Wireless. It rocks, but grrrrrowwwwwl! I loved #Gizmo5, able to support analog, wifi calls, pbx integration, international phone numbers. GV doesn’t. Google should have found a way to make those four things continue to be possible … somehow,” Suzanne Bowen, co-founder of Super Technologies and VP of DIDX.net comments.

Gizmo5 website says, “As of April 3, 2011, Gizmo5 service will be discontinued. If you are an existing Gizmo5 user, please log in to your account to learn more about available options for call credit refunds, credit balance transfers and the possibility of keeping your call-in number.”

Google Voice enables users to simplify communications in cool ways. Soldierknowsbest (in 2009) shares what he likes about it and how it works.

We are inviting more communication in the form of video, audio and text on this subject. Post your video on Youtube or Viddler or QIK with the words “What I Like about Gizmo5 or Google Voice, Techistan Query” in the title please. Or email to media@techistan.com attention to Omar or Suzanne … or post your video URL or opinion at . Let us know if we can quote you or name you as anonymous poster.