Google Talk
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Topic: Google Talk
Posted By: huwnet
Subject: Google Talk
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 6:12am
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Google's new IM with voice support. What are your opinions? The only thing that annoys me is that you cannot set a nickname it seems to be stuck on your name |
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 9:30am
| I'm going off IM, starting to annoy me a bit. I doubt many people will switch because it'd be such a pain in the ass to try and get all your friends on it. |
Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 10:10am
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I don't think I'll even bother trying it. IM is a pain sometimes and I have to do enough of it already. Why add more pain? ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 10:44am
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You can change your nickname on your profile page: https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount?pli=1 |
Posted By: wcwarren
Date Posted: 24 August 2005 at 3:29pm
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email in instant enough for me yet senders don't expect an instant reply. ------------- http://www.coolestguyontheplanet.com/ - Coolest Guy on the Planet http://www.yahoo.com/ - Google is Best http://www.pottershouse.com.au/ - Potters House |
Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 25 August 2005 at 6:54am
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well i hardly chat with a hand ful of ppl on IM.. what benefit shall i get migrating away from MSN???
execpt the positive fact that google IM client is very small...that is only 899KB.. compared to MSN7 client which is 6.xx MB.. and is generally full of junk.. ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss"> 
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Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 25 August 2005 at 9:34am
True. I have a hard time seeing "yet another IM" being useful to me. I still only use Gmail for storing files, though I do like the interface. But I'm sure Google will try to slug it out. They are getting really aggressive, and I'm not too sure how good it is going to be given the amount of greed they've been showing lately. ------------- http://renegademinds.com/" rel="nofollow - Renegade Minds - Guitar Software http://renegademinds.com/Default.aspx?tabid=65" rel="nofollow - Slow Down Music |
the boss wrote:Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 25 August 2005 at 2:48pm
| I'm really looking forward to Google Wallet |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 25 August 2005 at 9:11pm
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Their IM is built on Jabber. Apparently there's some concern about how
the open source license is being interpreted and used by google. Google
gets away with things that would put MS into court for years.
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Lead me not into temptation... I know the short cut, follow me. |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 27 August 2005 at 11:28am
Jabber programs do not have to be open source  Or maybe I am wrong. I thought only the protocol was open |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 27 August 2005 at 1:59pm
| Yes, only the protocol is open, but google are being critised for using LAMP technology (Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP, Python, Perl) but not submitted revisions back to the source tree. |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 27 August 2005 at 3:48pm
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I think google may have been dicking with the protocol as well. It was one of those long technical rant articles so I skimmed a lot  -------------
Lead me not into temptation... I know the short cut, follow me. |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 27 August 2005 at 4:18pm
Have you got a link? 
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 27 August 2005 at 8:34pm
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Forget where I saw the article - it was either lockergnome, eweek, developers journal, or info week.
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Lead me not into temptation... I know the short cut, follow me. |
Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 28 August 2005 at 4:45am
| Think it's eweek, because I read it aswell |