Google IM (Google Talk) is Now Available

[forums]

It downloads and installs and works in less than one minute

[digitalpoint]

For those about to ask about where:

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

[SaN-DeeP]

great news, lets get started with google as well now

[Shoemoney]

I find this thing pretty useless... very dissapointed

[sarahk]

Like anything it's no good unless you know someone to chat to but I'm sure it'll catch on. How long till they get adsense?

How long until Trillian adds it?
I like the all-in-one approach

[digitalpoint]

Originally Posted by sarahk

How long until Trillian adds it?

http://www.google.com/support/talk/b...077&topic=1415

[Googles76]

It's horrible

It isn't possible to call or chat with non-Gmail users through Google Talk (but we're working on it). You can email any of your contacts by clicking the envelope next to their names in your Friends list, but if you want to talk to your friends live, they need to be Gmail (and Google Talk) users too.

It got a long way to go before I will replace my trusty msn messenger.

[aeiouy]

And 1,000,000 blog entries were born.

[City2]

Haha True, Blogs will spread this around well

[sarahk]

Originally Posted by aeiouy

And 1,000,000 blog entries were born.

That's the name of the game. Wouldn't you love to be able to do that?!

Minor change I'd like and that is for it to be taken off the task bar when it's minimised.

Major change I'd like is for it to be integrated into gMail so I only have one thing open at a time.

As for only being available to people using gmail, well the same goes for AOL. ICQ insists you sign up. I do prefer not giving out my email address though and thats the #1 reason I don't use MSN.

Once you purchase and download Trillian Pro

They might just get my $$$, I'm still using the free version.

[fryman]

Originally Posted by sarahk

Minor change I'd like and that is for it to be taken off the task bar when it's minimised.

Just close the chat window and it will be taken off the taskbar, you will only see the icon

[zman]

They might just get my $$$, I'm still using the free version.

Yeah I'll only use it if it is good with Trillian. Im heavy on the Trillian.

[sarahk]

Originally Posted by fryman

Just close the chat window and it will be taken off the taskbar, you will only see the icon

spookily easy. Thanks Fryman!

[exaro]

Pardon my french but that is so rad.



Anyone use it? I'd like to try out the chat.

[alext]

Yet another icon in my system tray ;-)

I hope to actually use this one.

1,000,001th blog post now.

[seoindia]

So after Google Current they started google talk. Wonder what is it going to be next, may be Google Dating, followed by Google Travel and Google Music..

[SEbasic]

I like it - MUCH quicker to load than MSN and ICQ...

[nevetS]

Interesting strategy. Use an existing platform so you have existing 3rd party product support.

People seem enamored with Jabber, but my experience with testing it was that it was a pretty weak product with a community that was fairly lacking in friendliness to outside developers. The server side seemed pretty solid, but client-wise not a lot of great clients and even the trillian extension is problematic. I wonder if google didn't help to fix up the trillian implementation. They only have about 400K "pro" users so probably not.

[bentong]

its nice and simple. I guess the guy who owns googletalk.com must be very happy now.

[xeno]

Another way Google neglects Mac users.