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Google Talk Available Early

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the resourceful-users dept.

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.

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  1. Wow, I get to use Jabber on a different server! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Whoop.

    Dee.

    Do.

  2. Serious idea by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How about the /. editors collecting up all of the stories about google into one posting a day? It's not that I'm completely uninterested in the subject. But multiple free ads for google every day is kinda annoying. But then, of course, the editors would have to actually edit.

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  3. Re:OK by killjoe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Google should make a calender app. Then google itself could be a competitor for exchange. Then M$ (yea I said it but at least I figure if you call me a communist you have no cause to bitch) would be shitting bricks.

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  4. easier gmail invites- anyone with a cellphone by carmaggedon · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    gmail invites are now available to anyone with an american cellphone. https://www.google.com/accounts/SmsMailSignup1

    wondering if this is starting right now, same as google talk. first i've heard of an alternate way to get a gmail account- no bumming an invite from a friend. (although at this point everyone basically has one or isn't interested in one. still an interesting change.)

  5. Re:Now spy on your friends! by birge · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If Google were the government you'd have $2 deducted from your paycheck for each search, they'd deliver half the e-mail to the wrong address and would convince Amazon.co.uk to help them defeat Mac fundamentalism by invading Apple. If you tried to search for "Bin Laden" you'd get nothing except 4 billion pages about Terry Schiavo. All gay porn sites would automatically forward to www.patrobertson.com (unless the HTTP request comes from Karl Rove's IP).