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Google Instant Messenger
Topic Started: Aug 24 2005, 03:54 PM (1,454 Views)
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I'm suprised they don't have their own support forum yet.XD
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Looks pretty good. I'll wait till my friends d/l it before I do, I hope they get on board cos my comp and MSN don't seem to be getting on.
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Daniel Talbot
August 25, 2005 02:54 PM
I would try it if i had a computer that i could download things on. I cant do it at work because i would get fired. Maybe one day i would try it. But i have seen some bad things written about it so maybe i wont try it.

what bad things? plz tell us?
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If they make it skinnable, I might use it.
YIM (and anything else Yahoo, really) had enough problems without them mulleting up the skinning system for the new version.
I like to have the main window displayed on my desktop so I can see who's online at a glance, but I refuse to have some stupid, poorly skinned, blinding white backgrounded crap showing all the time, so that cuts out a good 25% of the functionality right there as far as I'm concerned.
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I'm not getting it until it gets compatible with YIM and AIM. Read: most likely never. Why? 'Cause almost everybody uses AIM, a few people use YIM, and almost no people use this Google thing.
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BLAHgger
August 25, 2005 08:50 PM
and almost no people use this Google thing.

It just came out yesterday, did you expect 10 million users in one day?

I've been getting a lot of my friends to try it out and just give it a chance, not bad so far, but I'll try to recuit some more :P
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Rukario_Dude
August 25, 2005 02:12 PM
I'm suprised they don't have their own support forum yet.XD

They have support email form.

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I'm not getting it until it gets compatible with YIM and AIM. Read: most likely never. Why? 'Cause almost everybody uses AIM, a few people use YIM,

Lots of people use microsoft, but it still sucks.


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It just came out yesterday, did you expect 10 million users in one day?

Yes. :P

Google Talk is nice and clean as well as gaim friendly ^_^.
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Ok after reading some of the comments I had a feeling no one read this article...so I had to go find it just to post it for you...... it's worth the read and may answer some of your questions about its uses and how Google plans on making this big :[/color]

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AOL's messaging program has about 41.6 million U.S. users, followed by Yahoo Messenger with 19.1 million and MSN Messenger with 14.1 million, according to ComScore Media Metrix's July report.

Users of those services are unlikely to switch unless the friends and colleagues on their "buddy lists" do the same. The top instant messaging services still do not communicate with each other, though promises of such "interoperability" have been made for years.

Google based its software on open standards, so it will work with smaller networks that are based on the same technology. Text messages can be exchanged with users of Apple Computer Inc.'s iChat, Cerulean Studios' Trillian and the open-source Gaim program.

Google also is inviting programmers to build its technology into their software.

"It means other people and developers will be able to add value to our network by being able to add this to computer games, productivity applications and anywhere else they want," said Georges Harik, director of product management at Google.

The new Google program features a basic user interface with few graphics, much like the main Google search site. It does not spawn pop-up windows or display ads like America Online's Instant Messenger.

"We'll have an uncluttered interface that allows you to search over your contacts pretty easily," Harik said. "It just stays out of your way unless you want to connect to someone."

Google Talk, which is being released in a beta test version, works only on PCs running
Windows 2000 and
Windows XP. Eventually, the company plans to release a version for Apple's Mac
OS X.

Google Talk also requires users to have an account with the company's free Gmail e-mail system. Gmail previously was available only to those invited by a current account holder, but now Google is opening up registration to anyone in the United States.

Voice chat requires that both the caller and recipient have speakers and a microphone hooked up to their computers. It does not currently offer an adapter to which regular phones can be connected.

And unlike Internet phone services such as Vonage and Skype, Google's voice service does not support calls to the regular telephone system.

Harik also made clear that Google has no intention of trying to become a popular bridge to the other major instant-messaging providers. "We're not going to do anything like force other networks to interoperate with us," he said. "We're not going to arbitrarily break into their protocols."

However, since Google Talk runs on open standards, outside developers who incorporate the service into their programs could try to enable such interoperability.

Because of Google's large and loyal user base, the company's foray into instant messaging could threaten the other players, said Sara Radicati, head of The Radicati Group Inc., a technology research firm. As evidence, Radicati cited Google's entry into e-mail, when it became chic to have a Gmail account.

"We've seen people show off their Google address," she said. "It's on the level of `Hey, look at my new Swatch. I've got the yellow one while you're still wearing the blue.' ... It's a little thing, but it helps."
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Oh its so evil.... It's not Windows ME compatible!!!!! I can't use it even if i wanted to.
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August 26, 2005 10:17 PM
Oh its so evil.... It's not Windows ME compatible!!!!! I can't use it even if i wanted to.

If gaim is ME compatable you could use it with gaim ^_^.
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http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html
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I'll probably wind up getting trillian, I mean i already havd AIM, YIM, and MSN, might as well as condense them into one program :r
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It dosen't support win 98!? aww...
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It doesn't support DOS?! :o Awwwww. :D
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nope, XP, win 2000, and Win 2003, whatever that one is. only windows versions that it works with... at least thats what the installer says.
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