{"id":13245,"date":"2005-08-24T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/24\/google-talk\/"},"modified":"2005-08-24T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T23:13:00","slug":"google-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/24\/google-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Google\"<\/a>The latest buzz on the Interweb is Google Talk<\/a>, Google’s entry into the IM<\/acronym>\/Internet Phone (VOIP<\/acronym>?) arena. The Instant Messenger text chat portion of Google Talk<\/a> works as you would expect, letting you invite contacts from GMail<\/a> very easily. Apparently you need a GMail account to use the program, but if you’re invited to be someone’s Google Talk contact, an invitation to GMail is supposedly included. I have a bunch of GMail invitations, by the way, in case anyone still needs one. You can also connect to Google Talk via GAIM and Trillian<\/a> (among others), two popular open source IM applications that use the Jabber<\/a>\/XMPP protocol. However, I was unable to get GAIM to work despite trying some suggestions at smash’s world<\/i><\/a>. I’ll keep trying to see whether I’m missing something there…<\/p>\n

The Internet Phone option worked surprisingly well. Once Shaft and I figured out our respective microphone issues, the sound clarity was pretty decent, with only minor feedback and glitches. The review at Skype Journal<\/i><\/a> was positive overall but pointed out some features that are lacking when compared to Skype and other IM clients. I haven’t tried Skype<\/a> myself; I believe the only other Internet Phone-type application that I’ve tried was Dialpad<\/a>, and it worked reasonably well, if I remember correctly.<\/p>\n

Overall, Google Talk is definitely worth a try. I don’t use any particular IM client regularly, so I don’t have any strong ties to a particular community to break. I imagine that would be a concern for many, and that could be partially ameliorated by using a client like GAIM<\/a> or Trillian<\/a> that can access most of the major IM applications at once. The Internet Phone experience was fairly positive, and it’s very compelling at the moment, considering that it’s totally free(!). I wonder whether that will change, but it seems that many of Google’s offerings have remained that way, with ad revenues somehow monetizing their efforts. I guess the program is technically still in Beta, so who knows?<\/p>\n

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The latest buzz on the Interweb is Google Talk, Google’s entry into the IM\/Internet Phone (VOIP?) arena. The Instant Messenger text chat portion of Google Talk works as you would expect, letting you invite contacts from GMail very easily. Apparently you need a GMail account to use the program, but if you’re invited to be … <\/p>\n

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