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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:ugh, throw it on the heap... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Standardization sounds great, but so far from what I can tell the operators of the proprietary services like AIM have been trying to keep their networks closed, for the most part. I'm sure there are no technical obstacles to solving this but I don't know if the walled-garden types want their users interoperating... they might define it as a violation of their TOS and try to block it esp. if someone else like Google gets to make money off it.

  4. 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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  5. 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.)

  6. 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).