Google Talk

[theplustwo]

Google is making an Instant Messenger service. Check it out at http://talk.google.com .

Or, for the lazy:
http://www.google.com/talk/images/client.gif

[Beldaran]

I'm sticking with Trillian. I hate talking "on the phone" so to speak. I like the separation of text.

[Starkist]

I downloaded it. I already have a Gmail account anyway. No one else I know does, though. I still use MSN and gAIM to chat with people.

[vegeta1215]

I hate talking "on the phone" so to speak. I like the separation of text.

Yeah, I'm not a phone person either.

I think Google Talk will attract some attention, but only if people really want to use the voice feature, and if it works as well as Google hopes. Skype and other VoIP companies will probably lose some users, but will Google Talk pull in people using other IM programs? It's hard to say - people with Gmail accounts will likely jump on the bandwagon, and since Google Talk uses the Jabber protocol, adopters can still talk to people on AIM and Yahoo! IM etc with Jabber's gateways.

Me, I'm sticking with AIM and Gaim.

[Darth Marsden]

Nice. Tempted to try it, but I have few enough friends on MSN.

[ShadowTiger]

If you ask me, they're a little bit late. AIM, ICQ, MSN, YIM, Trillian, Multiplayer chats, IRC, Forum shoutboxes ... just too many choices. Google, you may be ambitious, but stick to what you do best. Look up porn.

[theplustwo]

Well, it might be a good thing to have a few backup protocalls, what with AOL's pending demise.

[bigjoe]

I tried it, but have no one to test its chat functions with.

[Zelda_Warrior]

My computer isn't good enough. Not enough hard drive space on only a 4 gb hardrive. Also, it didn't meet another reqirement, but I forget what it was XD.

[Tygore]

I'll wait for the Trillian plugin before forming any accounts. Being signed into Yahoo, MSN, and AIM at the same time is plenty, and I don't want to have multiple IM applications running at the same time.

[Masamune]

I really don't understand what the big turn on about this service is. It looks like sort've an extention for my gmail account if that makes any sense.

[Zelda_Warrior]

Oh sorry I meet the requirments for google talk it's just that I don't meet them for google desktop.

[Darth Marsden]

I tried it, but have no one to test its chat functions with.I'll try it out with you. Dare I ask you to recommend me for a GMail account?

[Carcer]

It looks a lot cleaner than MSN, which I use. And I agree with the rest of you, it has come too late with very few users. It would be good to use with my GMail account, to say I've got the set, but, as has been said, there just aren't enough users - and I doubt there ever will be.

It wouldn't suprise me if Google makes an OS one day.

[Darth Marsden]

Google - the new Microsoft. Only without Bill Gates. That's enough to make me support them whatever they do. I had a look at the services they provide nowadays, and it's pretty impressive for a company that started life as a simple search engine.

[DsS Game]

Google seems to be doing everything now these days....Hosting videos, email accounts, desktops, now google talk. Some of these functions are good but I don't think Google talk isn't going to last very long...