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bossaco
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dbee
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| I've got some gmail account invitations to give away, pm me if you want one ... |
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Wrench
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cvitur1
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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| I also have about 100 gmail invites to distribute, so if dbee runs out, feel free to pm me if you want one |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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I don't see the advantage of this over yahoo or MSN's existing chat clients.
Google sure do seem to be reinventing the wheel a lot at the moment |
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Industrial Strength
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Swiss James wrote: |
I don't see the advantage of this over yahoo or MSN's existing chat clients.
Google sure do seem to be reinventing the wheel a lot at the moment |
i imagine they will add more features over time, most likely video. i'm happy i can make a clean break from hotmail now, as most of my friends and family have switched to gmail. we were just using msn messenger for chatting/video.
the best thing google could do with their im client is to let you decide what you want to install, instead of all the bloat you are forced to take with yahoo and msn. wishful thinking probably.
google is talking as if talk will be open source which would allow clever people to program nifty extensions for it. try getting aim, yahoo or msn to do that.
hotmail was great when it first came out. after m$ took it over, it just got worse and worse while at the same time you had to start paying for what was originally offered for free. hopefully, gmail will keep all its services free in the future.
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Draven
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
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Interesting review of Google Talk at ars technica. Here's a portion:
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| The one shining light I see with Google Talk is the plans for federation of the service. Put simply, Google is planning to push interoperability by obtaining agreements with other IM and VoIP partners that would allow inter-service communications. The company believes that "service choice" should not affect who you can communicate with, much in the way that your choice of phone service providers doesn't limit who you can call. |
I installed Google Talk last night and played around with it for a while. Granted, it's still in Beta, but it didn't impress much. We'll see where it goes. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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It's too late, MSN, Yahoo, AIM, and skype have already got the market cornered.
I'm hardly going to switch away from MSN and try to persuade all of my contacts to switch just because I did too. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 3:00 am Post subject: |
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| Draven wrote: |
Interesting review of Google Talk at ars technica. Here's a portion:
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| The one shining light I see with Google Talk is the plans for federation of the service. Put simply, Google is planning to push interoperability by obtaining agreements with other IM and VoIP partners that would allow inter-service communications. The company believes that "service choice" should not affect who you can communicate with, much in the way that your choice of phone service providers doesn't limit who you can call. |
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Is that not similar to iChat? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 5:03 am Post subject: |
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It's too late, MSN, Yahoo, AIM, and skype have already got the market cornered.
I'm hardly going to switch away from MSN and try to persuade all of my contacts to switch just because I did too. |
Yeah my thoughts. There has to be a compelling reason to switch. Lots of people switched over to gmail for the larger mail box and google at that time seemed cool. Now there's some debate whether or not they've become the next high tech whipping boy like Microsoft. I remember I started off with hotmail and switched to yahoo in 1999 because hotmail was having major ugly server problems. If MSN dropped the ball for a couple months, people might all stampede over to Gtalk.
A chat client integrated with your web mail is useful, mostly for the chat client's "you have new mail" notification thing. But I've got a gmail notifier extension for Firefox that's taken care of.
The best thing google could do is pay Japanese girls between the ages of 16 and 25 who are fluent in English to use Gtalk for a year and get them to hang out in chatrooms devoted to computer programmers. That would get the critical mass ball rolling... |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| I think that's the best way to promote just about anything. |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
The best thing google could do is pay Japanese girls between the ages of 16 and 25 who are fluent in English to use Gtalk for a year and get them to hang out in chatrooms devoted to computer programmers. That would get the critical mass ball rolling... |
everyone I chat to online seems to be between the age of 16 and 25. About 80% of them also tell me they have big boobs and a small waist |
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