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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. Re:opinion and some links by KarMax · · Score: 0, Redundant

    LOL "Anonymous Coward", you are right.... I wrote my previous comment sooo bad (BTW i lied i have no friends, nobody understand me)

    sed s/wtf/excellent comment/g PreviousComment >> NewComment

    All of this Google "thing" (*paranoid*) bring me some doubts... the centralization of data (a LOT of personal info) NEVER will be good.

    I hope that "Google IM" has the features that the "regular" user seek in his IM prog (all the "cool" stuff that MSN Messenger has), thus maybe my friends (and everybody) will begin to use a FREE IM protocol.

    Jabber (the FREE IM protocol) exists for some time ago and i dont see ANY reason to start using the talk.google.com (jabber server).

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  2. If you read on... by embezzled · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It go on to say:

    * Full-disclosure update: When we first wrote these "10 things" four years ago, we included the phrase "Google does not do horoscopes, financial advice or chat." Over time we've expanded our view of the range of services we can offer -- web search, for instance, isn't the only way for people to access or use information -- and products that then seemed unlikely are now key aspects of our portfolio. This doesn't mean we've changed our core mission; just that the farther we travel toward achieving it, the more those blurry objects on the horizon come into sharper focus (to be replaced, of course, by more blurry objects).

  3. It's AVAILABLE NOW! http://www.google.com/talk/ by jgionet · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://www.google.com/talk/ running it now.. pretty sweet