Google Talk available now

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Google's new IM+VOIP tool is available now to Gmail users

http://www.google.com/talk/

[Vlammetje]

Am I the only one wishing there was one universal IM client that does IM and calls and video calls and meetings allt he same, where everybody simply sgns up and can chat and where we are all compatible?

[fac51]

thats what google are planning to do it just not that far developed yet

[Vlammetje]

but it won;t incorporate all you existing MSN budies and AIM buddies and so on will it? It's just another standard set out to conquer the world. That's not what I mean really. I mean a fix to mix all the existing IM's together. I have 4 different IM id's to keep in touch with peple I wish to keep in touch with. I have AIM for the sole purpose of chatting to ONE former roommate of mine.

I hate all those clients with a passion and I'd be well pleased if everybody could agree on one way forward for everybody.

[fac51]

yeah it will, their plan is to incorporate all existing im's just as you want.

[Vlammetje]

if they pull it off google is my hero

[fac51]

hehe lets hope they do

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for vlamm:

Search giant Google has sent an instant message to its rivals with the launch of its Talk service.

Unveiled on 24 August, the Google Talk system unites net telephony with an instant messaging network and builds on the Gmail e-mail service that was released in March 2004.

At first glance, a combined instant messaging/net phone system is a strange service to launch mainly because Google's rivals are so far ahead in terms of users and experience.

What it hopes will help attract users to its instant messaging system is its offer of compatibility with the relatively closed networks of its rivals.

AOL, MSN and Yahoo try to ensure that their users talk to no others simply because they fear that opening up their networks will dilute their hold and reduce the amount of cash they can generate from all these people.


We are going to try to be the first in the world to connect everyone to everyone
Georges Harik, Google

Google starts online talk service
Telecoms face net challenge
Although users can connect to other networks via more open clients, they typically lose some of the features, such as webcams and audio, that work on pure IM networks.

By contrast, Google Talk is based on an open technology called Jabber which was created to help different networks talk to each other.

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would've posted this coupla weeks ago but couldn't access the actual Google page for the program

[Vlammetje]

We are going to try to be the first in the world to connect everyone to everyone
Georges Harik, Google

LIES! ALL LIES! Trillian were the first to do so

So the real question for me will probably be: does it beat Trillian?

[fac51]

does trillian include xfire?

[beebs]

Hey Vlam,
There is a mobile instant messenger called Senjoo which connects to the established and most popular instant messaging systems like AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and Jabber. To miy mind that is already a better offer than Google Talk. The website is http://www.senjoo.com

[Vlammetje]

thanks beebs I actually do have something like that with a different name


What I want though... is for me yahoo contacts to be able to speak with my MSN contacts without hassle maybe one day...