Google Talk

[Maak]

Google have just released their own IM client aptly named Google Talk

click here (http://www.google.com/talk/) to get it.

[Cheez]

Or just direct your favorite Jabber client (Gaim, Trillian, Adium) to talk.google.com:5222 and make sure you've got TLS authentication enabled.

[no friends]

been using this this morning. A nice simplistic thing. It's a bugger you have to go to gmail/google preferences to change nick etc. Would use it fully if friends wouldn't be bought into the world of cheasy advertisement of msn messenger.

[TheDon]

Originally posted by no friends
Would use it fully if friends wouldn't be bought into the world of cheasy advertisement of msn messenger. Give it a few months and I bet you'll be getting google ads to the side of your chatwindow based on what you're currently talking about instead.

[Afty]

Im on it... been waiting for a decent lightweight messaging service for a while - we will see if this is it.

russ.davies if people who know me want to add me.

[her0n]

Lame thing I have noticed. It STILL insists on spamming your inbox 'inviting you' when friends add you and you already have google talk. :<

[KingDaveRa]

There's a few reviews popping up, and so far they seem pretty scathing. It seems Google's 'less is more' philosophy is gunna bite them in the bum on this one.

Its getting a lot of criticism for not supporting really basic things, like chat logging and graphical smilies, things most other IM apps have been doing for years.

Personally, I find it a little lacklustre, and possibly too stripped-down. Then again, it is the first public release, so its bound to change a bit over time.

kingdavera if you wanna add me btw :)

[Afty]

I absolutely love it. I won't run AIM or MSN cos I find them bloated annoying crap - Google Talk is currently in my systray and has been since this morning.

It utterly rock, the only thing it needs is a way to categories your contacts (friends/family/business etc.)

As for graphical smileys and chat logs - who wants that gunk? I want to message people and I don't need some acid house logo getting in my way, or a record of the steamy conversation I had with my friends mother keeping on her hard drive for when he visits home.

Rock on Google

[Maak]

Im with afty on this one.

[Afty]

Maak, you keep away from my mum, OK?

[TimmyNoShoes]

haha "pwned"

[Boffykins]

Yes, I agree the minimalist approach is great, but only if you can use it to talk to the people that love their smileys. I suppose I could/should just use gAIM, but I am a bit of a softy for Google

[Chicane]

i prefer this over skype, its 900k, compared to the 7meg skype gets you to download.

you've got ask wtf do u need the other 6 meg for?

[Ryvita]

It doesn't seem to work well through corporate firewalls/proxies. Neither I nor AndyF can get it to work from our respective workstations. (MSN works fine.)

If they can fix that, then yeah, sign me up.

Ryv

[TE-Hellfire]

Ugly, patronising, out-marketed pap.

[Steadders]

My 1337 friends are saying "i'm ditching msn, and i'm just going to use google"

My non-1337 friends haven't even heard of it, and even if they did, would never want to change (why should they? msn is all they need)

This is anoying, because now i will have to have an extra item is my system tray. Personlly i don't really mind either program, they both chat to people and that's what i need/want. Will there be clients that let you run msn and google under one roof?

[Zenith]

Trillian (http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/) > *

Why tie yourself down to one IM system when you can have all of the major ones?
Along with the ability to skin your interface? :)

[Gifted]

adium.... great


i now have MSN, Yahoo, and gmail all running on one simple app that hides nicly in the corner of my mac in invisible mode untill i get an alert

[JeRkY]

Originally posted by Chris
Or just direct your favorite Jabber client (Gaim, Trillian, Adium) to talk.google.com:5222 and make sure you've got TLS authentication enabled.

I think that answers that one does it not?

[skinner101]

guess its bye bye skype for me.Google talk is great as long as it stays free.

[maxrealism]

You can get advert blockers for MSN. Norton Internet Security does it for me. Personally... when the ICQ / MSN thing came along it wasn't all that.. as everyone came back to MSN after the fuss died down.

www.mess.be

[phil]

Originally posted by Ryvita
It doesn't seem to work well through corporate firewalls/proxies. Neither I nor AndyF can get it to work from our respective workstations. (MSN works fine.)

I guess it's just luck depending on the firewall/proxy. MSN doesn't like Squid, so I can't use that without it logging me out the whole time. Google talk works a charm, is nice and lightweight, and doesn't shake the window or place 5 foot smilies on my screen.

[Semajal]

its like i-pods. People will use it cos its "cool"

Personally i find MSN fine for almost all convos (and i log em, so i never forget important dates/names/numbers). IRC is prefered generally but im getting into Skype now.

[Mu5icMan]

I don't find the beta release any good at all. You can only call Gmail customers and there isn't an option to call a landline.

When the final release comes out and hopefully these features installed i'll take another look.

I'm staying with skype

[phil]

Originally posted by Semajal
its like i-pods. People will use it cos its "cool"

...

but im getting into Skype now.

Skype = EVIL, non standard, closed, bandwagon, jumping, "cool"

[andyf]

sorry Ryv, I've managed to get it to work ...


although using a slightly unorthodox technique ...

[Strych]

strych@

if anyone would like to add me
kthx

[Killy]

jace.arnold@ for me :)

[Baz]

harrybutler@

woo - much nicer than msn!

[Dan]

danbellis@


;o

[wpmike]

mike.cheung1@

=)

[^MiNi_D^]

Originally posted by Chicane
i prefer this over skype, its 900k, compared to the 7meg skype gets you to download.

you've got ask wtf do u need the other 6 meg for?

makes a good 1 on 1 Teamspeak too :D was playing CS and BF2 with igloo and cant notice any difference in latency with the added bonus tht i can actually hear what he's saying compaired to any of the teamspeak speex codecs which make u sound like u have a hoover on in the bg all the time :)

jaimie.fryer@

[WeeJ]

Adium is your friend :)

[DaeMord]

daemord@ for anybody that gives a darn
*sigh* guess this means back to gaim, and i was liking amsn so much.

[AcidIce]

ooooh very nice, only just bothered installing this, I actually like it! Haven't run any IM clients for years because they're a PITA (with afty 100% there) - a nice change methinks, and the nice option of just using jabber, also a good move imo.

Love it. \o/