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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:http://www.miranda-im.org/ by Ark42 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Like Trillian, Miranda-IM doesn't support ICQ if you put AIM contacts on your ICQ contact list. Unlike Trillian, Miranda will let you use your ICQ UIN as an AIM account, and load the full and proper contact list, but it will then leave all of your ICQ contacts as just numbers. Either way, it's entirely useless, just like Trillian, and people like me still have to use ICQ 2003b to fully utilize their existing contact list.

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  2. Concern by Council · · Score: 0, Troll

    I hate sitting here and hoping beyond hope that Google isn't evil.

    Did we trust them just because of their colorful, friendly-looking logo?

    Are we making a terrible mistake?

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    xkcd.com - a webcomic of mathematics, love, and language.
  3. google, bah humbug! by much2curious · · Score: 0, Troll

    1. Google talk is windows only!! Blah! No Linux support even planned! (At least yahoo has a text messenger for un*x.) 2. Yahoo has had a voice messenger since may. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1817029,00.as p http://messenger.yahoo.com/feat_voice.php 3. Someone had you guys pegged two weeks ago!! http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=159339&cid=133 44524