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Google Talk Available Early
smash writes "Google's new IM service is already live. All you need is a Jabber-compatible Instant Messaging client (such as Apple's iChat, or gaim), and a GMail address." This should answer, at least in part, all of the speculation that has been flying around the net over the last couple of days. Update: Many users have been eager to let us know that Google Talk in indeed live.
Stay tuned to Google tomorrow for details.
Er, is that one http://tomorrow.google.com/ ?
What is a google?
Use the power of google search to find juicy tidbits in other's google talk conversations!
I just created my account. I'm cbergeron.
I'm bgates$$. Please feel free to add me to your list.
r u google? omfg! lol
Why, friendly google adwords, of course! Talking about baseball? Why not visit espn.com? Or better yet, Baseball on eBay. 1000s of Baseballs for Sale!
the point is... google is teh cool
My other sig is crap too
Google Talk is great, but what I REALLY need is 'Google ShutUp' to make the irritating people I know go away while providing them with targetted, text-based ads.
Will they release an office suite?
Will they release a browser?
Will they release a line of refrigerators?
Will they purchase Oracle?
Will they purchase Uruguay?
Will they hire Stallman?
Will they hire Ballmer?
Will they hire Peter Griffin?
I sure as hell don't know, but I'm sure I'll hear about it constantly on GashDot. Um... I mean Slashoogle. Er, that is... Slooshdot. Eh, fuck it.
I wonder if they will add Google-style spellchecking... omfg lol rofl - Did you mean "I'm a sad script kiddy?"
My other sig is crap too
Now I have yet another account with no buddies in Gaim.
I know it's childish of me but if bill gates were handing out a thousand dollars and 50 golden fish rings to anybody with a golden fish ring and the only way to get the golden fish ring was to beg one off of somebody who had 50 of them and had gotten theirs in the same way, then I'd say, "Stick the thousand in your fish ring!". I've been offered a zillion GMail accounts and I just can't stomach the way they are being dolled out.
have a cron job to do a dictionary search of *.google.com every few hours....
Feel free to send an invite my way:
l0rdjedi at yahoo dot com
Can I possibly be the only one wondering if Google saw all the people chasing their own tails about a google messenger, and tossed a jabber server online just to mess with your heads?
Or could it possibly just be the jabber server that google itself uses internally?
Let me introduce you to "Grip", and suggest that it's a fine product that you all should get.
heh, even I knew that.
Joseph Sixpack - Representing the average pc user from Americas heartland since the day before yesterday.
From http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/tenthings. html
Google does search. Google does not do horoscopes, financial advice or chat.
(Guess they better remember to update that page when they make the announcement...)
And the real burning question - When can I get my Googlescope???
Did I say overlords? I meant protectors.
If you RTFA, you will see that talk.google.com requires TLS to connect.
Don't you dare use me to connect. I have limited enough bandwidth as is.
Ha! Begging for Gmail invites! That's so 2004.
I'll see your buddy-free accounts and raise you a buddy-free server. So that my excessively arrogant and self-centered e-mail address would be matched with an equally cocky IM address, I ran my own Jabber server for several years and had on it just the one account and on that account zero contacts.
Hey, shut up. It's the only exclusive club I can get into these days(and I still had to buy my invite!). Now I can laugh at all those 100meg hotmail users. Losers.
"Griffin in finance or the mythical creature?"
"Whichever is harder."
But what if a major event happened and everyone needed to email each other to say everything's okay??? Would Google have enough space to hold all the emails?? I demand to have a federal email corporation that insures that there's enough space in times of emergencies! If Google runs out of space, then the government should give us enough space for 100,000 emails. Otherwise, the people who send emails first will get all the email space and everyone else will be silenced and forced on the streets (to talk to people in person, God forbid!!).
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PS: You can jabber me at adpowers@gmail.com
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- srid
The other day somebody inadvertantly linked to slashdot from slashdot, and wound up slashdotting slashdot!
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