Overly Chatty Penguins

The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: GrayDuck on August 24, 2005, 09:39:49 AM

Title: Google Talk
Post by: GrayDuck on August 24, 2005, 09:39:49 AM

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

Twas released this morning.  I've played around with it a bit - it seems really nice.

Title: Google Talk
Post by: Manta on August 24, 2005, 09:52:18 AM

Woah, I like it. It notifies you and allows you to check your email in a click. Haven't tried out the voice message thing yet, though.

Title: Google Talk
Post by: 2_of_8 on August 24, 2005, 09:58:22 AM

Got it today, looks cool. So uh... post your gmail's here?

Title: Google Talk
Post by: Fewlio on August 24, 2005, 10:19:41 AM

Yeah it was up last night too lololol, I like it because it's like MSN messenger without all the ads and the bloat. Although if I could customize the color scheme I would be happy.

Title: Google Talk
Post by: Malevolent on August 24, 2005, 11:27:05 AM

Looks cool. I'm gonna check it out.

Title: Google Talk
Post by: A Boojum Snark on August 24, 2005, 12:37:08 PM

I dislike the fact it has no full logging options, just a temp log where stuff doesn't go away when you close the chat window. I look things up in logs so often this makes me sad :( They need to add such an option.

Title: Google Talk
Post by: 2_of_8 on August 24, 2005, 01:57:44 PM

Go tell them, they'll do it. You won't believe how responsive the Google staff are.

Title: Google Talk
Post by: lolfighter on August 24, 2005, 04:18:02 PM

So what makes this the hot instant messenger that will rule them all and in the darkness bind them? It's got a lot of competition out there, competition with an established userbase. Why do I want to switch from <other IM> to this one?

Title: Google Talk
Post by: A Boojum Snark on August 24, 2005, 05:00:47 PM

Im afraid nothing really yet, LF. Though they say somewhere on there that they are working on having it support connecting to other services with it.

Title: Google Talk
Post by: Manta on August 24, 2005, 05:36:54 PM

The only advantage to using this would be to have easy notification of your email if you use Gmail. You could do the same thing with POP, which Gmail supports, but I guess they wanted to make a package specifically for Google related stuff.

Title: Google Talk
Post by: Guest Bacon on August 24, 2005, 06:19:42 PM

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Im afraid nothing really yet, LF. Though they say somewhere on there that they are working on having it support connecting to other services with it.

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This is already possible with Jabber (the protocol they are using). I dont know why Google didnt take advantage of this right away.

Title: Google Talk
Post by: 2_of_8 on August 24, 2005, 07:44:28 PM

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So what makes this the hot instant messenger that will rule them all and in the darkness bind them? It's got a lot of competition out there, competition with an established userbase. Why do I want to switch from <other IM> to this one?

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I like the plain, ad-free interface, the quick startups, and... yeah. There isn't much to like for now, but maybe that fact in itself is something that would draw people to it.

Title: Google Talk
Post by: Anarki3x6 on August 24, 2005, 09:58:39 PM

yeah like quarter said, its nice, quick and simple, and it works good.

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Post by: Fewlio on August 24, 2005, 11:59:20 PM

Yeah I hate *all* the other Instant messengers out there, but everyone I know uses them(meaning aim) but hey now I can monitor two email addresses thanks to gmail notifier which runs great while googletalk is on.

Google Talk appears to be only using 7,260 K of my memory right now too, which is less than gmail notifier(9,828 K). This is only 1,000 K more than the version of aim I'm using right now which is good to know, I remember MSN using a bit more but I cba to check.

Title: Google Talk
Post by: Dirty Harry Potter on August 25, 2005, 12:10:06 AM

my MSN uses 22.112kB, though my googletalk only uses 6.336.

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Post by: Niteowl on August 25, 2005, 08:26:08 AM

IIRC, google talk uses the Jabber protocol, an open standard to allow any IM to hook into it. ICQ, msn, aim, yahoo all use proprietary protocols to hinder interoperability.

Title: Google Talk
Post by: rad4Christ on August 25, 2005, 09:27:41 AM

Bad thing is that my corporate firewall still blocks it :/

Title: Google Talk
Post by: Malevolent on August 25, 2005, 10:28:05 AM

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Im afraid nothing really yet, LF. Though they say somewhere on there that they are working on having it support connecting to other services with it.

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Hopefully. That would be my main reason for using it (I don't really like Trillian).

Title: Google Talk
Post by: Goldy on August 29, 2005, 05:47:41 AM

Hey, what's wrong with Trillian?

Title: Google Talk
Post by: Malevolent on August 29, 2005, 01:13:24 PM

Well, the baisc version sucks, IMO, and I don't want to pay for the pro version. And I just don't like the layout, etc.

Title: Google Talk
Post by: Fewlio on August 29, 2005, 02:09:13 PM

I also hate trillian.

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Post by: That Annoying Kid on August 29, 2005, 03:34:31 PM

Fork over for pro you hippies, then it owns all

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Post by: Bijiy on August 29, 2005, 11:40:30 PM

Or use Miranda which is far better. Anyways, Google talk is nice but I think I have enough IM clients already. :(

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Post by: Niteowl on August 30, 2005, 07:36:14 AM

MirandaIM is what I use. trillian has gotten super duper heavy.

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Post by: Fewlio on August 31, 2005, 10:50:41 PM

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Fork over for pro you hippies, then it owns all

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What more does pro do? Does it make it not suck? I DONT THINK IT DOES YOU FOOL! I do have to admit that it's better than MirandaIM(<3 nite).