Comments on: Google Talk: why?

By: Up Your Ego

Up Your Ego — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:22:40 +0000

If it’s just other Google Talk users then it just strikes me as a pointless marketing excersize - I mean creating a messenger client based on an existing protocol isn’t exactly taxing for a major company like Google

By: doctorvee

doctorvee — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:20:48 +0000

It’s just other Google Talk user. Hardly revolutionary if you ask me…

By: Up Your Ego

Up Your Ego — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:15:48 +0000

I read in a news story, I think in the Register that Google WILL be implementing the ability to connect to all the other services - if that does happen then it really is a strong news story - a big, well known brand launching a messenger client that can connect to any other network.

If they implement webcams, smillies and avaters I will use it all the time I expect but right now can’t be arsed to download it.

As for the phone feature - will you be able to call normal landlines or just other google talk users?

If you can call landlines then I might invest in a wifi phone.

By: VoIP Blog - VoIP News, Gadgets

VoIP Blog - VoIP News, Gadgets — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:25:32 +0000

Google Talk Just a “Me too” product - for now

In yesterday’s blog post, I wrote about Google Talk’s impending launch today. I tried to test Google Talk as quickly as I could and blog my testing experiences here. Further, yesterday I pondered, "…the ability for Google Talk to do…

By: doctorvee

doctorvee — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:34:51 +0000

I saw the report on the Six O’Clock News. I think the ‘news’ here is that Google has scratched its arse. Next week they’ll start something like a photo sharing site, and they’ll get free publicity on every news bulletin in the western world without having done anything notable. A good day’s work.

By: Itchy

Itchy — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:54:08 +0000

Well this sums up my thoughts about Google Talk. But i see it in a different way, if google can give Jabber a kick up the arse to implement web-cams then this could be big. Jabber is already capable of connecting to the other IM services in one client (also one connection as although you still have to sign up for each network, then link it to your jabber server account, you only connect via the jabber server rather then MSN, AIM and Yahoo all at the same time). What we really need is interoperability, and if google let you use MSN, AIM and Yahoo accounts with Google talk (is possible) then it will be a big wake up call to the big 3

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:44:45 +0000

The BBC’s 6 O’Clock News went for a similar angle as C4.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:36:47 +0000

If you want to know why, then the rather long piece on Channel 4 News just now, explaining how you can use Google Talk as an internet phone service is probably why. While VOIP and IM might be old hat to us bloggers, it’s the latest bright new shiny thing for the majority of the population, and now lovely wonderful Google have brought it to them.

Google Earth is a mission statement, not a product

By: Steve Eady's Brainlock

Steve Eady's Brainlock — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:54:57 +0000

Google breaking its philosophy?

I’ve been wondering when Google would start to break it’s lofty philosphies stated on it’s corporate website. While it is noble to forsake the expansion of your business and the pursuit of higher profits, publicly owned companies ha…

By: lambic

lambic — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:33:07 +0000

It is going to be a struggle to fight against the likes of AIM and MSN, but I’m happy that Google are using open source software (Google Talk is based on the Jabber IM protocol). Jabber has been around for a long time, but it has needed something like this to give it a kickstart.