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Google Talk

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 11:20 am
by The Monkey
Google Talk Beta is up. Like everything else Google offers, I love it. Clean, with no frills, you can search through your contacts (all two of them for me 0_o). It supports voice chatting, and requires a Gmail account.

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 11:31 am
by lostinphp
just visited it..
the only thing dat lacked in google..to my knowledge.
gud.

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:26 pm
by The Monkey
That's what I said BEFORE Google Talk came out... those guys will come up with something else that we didn't know we couldn't live without any day now.

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:38 pm
by sticksys
Great Programs, i'm using it :P

add me: stickportal@gmail.com


=]

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:24 pm
by Roja
lostinphp wrote:just visited it..
the only thing dat lacked in google..to my knowledge.
gud.
It's really simple to figure out where google is going to go next.. look at what yahoo and microsoft both do, and put them in order of user desirability..

Already done:
Search
News
FreEmail
IM

online finances
travel booking
...
office suite

Online finances and travel booking are extremely easy adds that build off what google already have, and they aren't impossibly far from an online office suite - which would put a hurt on Microsoft.

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:33 pm
by Sander
Even though Google copies a lot of stuff from other companies like Microsoft, their stuff always seems to come out great.

I'll surely give Google Talk a chance. It's gonna be hard for them to compete with MSN, though, but we'll see :)

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:54 pm
by reverend_ink
I read today that Google may be interested in aquiring Skype and that Talk is a temporary forray into the IM market.

Would be cool.... Skype open to all networks...

Interesting if true.

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:49 pm
by shiznatix
skype just turned down a 30 million dollar offer for their company (so i heard). but i just got google thingy

shiznatix@gmail.com

add me cause i have no contacts on it right now and it makes me sad. hopefully trillian will be able to connect to it soon cause ii started using trillian so i wouldnt have to run 2 chat programs at once and at work i cant use trillian so i have to use aim, msn, AND google now as different chat programs at work...what a pain in the ass i tell youq

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:20 pm
by Roja
shiznatix wrote:skype just turned down a 30 million dollar offer for their company (so i heard). but i just got google thingy

shiznatix@gmail.com

add me cause i have no contacts on it right now and it makes me sad. hopefully trillian will be able to connect to it soon cause ii started using trillian so i wouldnt have to run 2 chat programs at once and at work i cant use trillian so i have to use aim, msn, AND google now as different chat programs at work...what a pain in the ass i tell youq
You can already use trillian to connect to it. Its a jabber server. The google talk page has directions on how to set it up too: http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:25 pm
by shiznatix
alas i dont have trilian pro, just free version

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:14 pm
by The Monkey
After using it for a while, I have requested both /me functionality and the ability to delete individual personal messages, instead of having to clear them all out at once.

Conference chatting is missing, though. Kindof a bummer. Maybe in a future release.

Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:47 pm
by timvw
here is my account list ;) (google uses jabber)

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00:46:30 <@timvw> account list
00:46:31 <@root>  0. MSN, euki_@hotmail.com (connected)
00:46:31 <@root>  4. JABBER, timvw@jabber.org (connected)    
00:46:31 <@root>  6. OSCAR, 16315304 on login.icq.com (connected)
00:46:31 <@root>  7. OSCAR, euki1980 on login.oscar.aol.com (connected)
00:46:31 <@root>  8. YAHOO, bal_petanque (connected)