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Google, Skype and the Future of IM

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the nothing-like-a-little-theory dept.

Matt Veenstra sent in a nice little piece of rumor mongering about how Google's new Talk/Jabber/IM thing is just a stepping stone, but it's really just a foreshadowing of their future buyout of Skype. Worth some thought anyway.

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  1. Rumor? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    More Google rumors?

    Stories that I submitted that they rejected:
    • Air Force notifies over 33 thousand Airmen that their personal information is comprimised
    • Serious flaw in CPAINT allows hackers the run malicious code on servers, including Google, MSN, AOL, and more.


    So much for "News for Nerds"
    1. Re:Rumor? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      but yet you're still here aren't you??

  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  3. yet another client.. woohoo :| by jgionet · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    well.. now that the official BETA Google Talk client is out it seems very nice, clean and simple. Now the fun part of getting all my existing y! & msn friends/buddies to switch over! AHHHHH!

    oh btw.. here's some info about an Easter Egg for G!Talk if you didn't know already: http://www.hagrin.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=341#3 41

  4. Why buy skype? by gr8_phk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When gnome-meeting is free?

  5. Re:Post more! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Serious response.. then the /. crowd will just start whining more about the moderators and moderation process when they don't see the stories they want at the top...

    Basically you have a large collection of fairly intelligent people, who have *shocker* different interests in all geek things, and one unified goal in becoming "giant hardons" because they can anonymously ridicule people with arguably *cough* less intelligence, and feel like their shrink wrapped dicks are now validated...

    It's lose lose no matter how many good ideas you throw at it...

  6. Cool feature I discovered by Will2k_is_here · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't know if anyone has mentioned this before but I noticed wrapping your words in asterisks like *this* causes your words to be bolded. I wonder what other undocumented features there are out there.

  7. About GMail... by Roguelazer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did anybody else notice that Gmail now supports using foreign "From:" addresses? So I can send mail from my Gmail account that looks like it came from my Comcast accound... Or from a non-existant mailinator account! I wonder what the point of that is? Maybe they're going to add recieving from foreign POP servers, too...

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    My Systems
  8. Re:Another Google buyout? by shokk · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sorry, I can't hear you. The little elastic strap on your tinfoil hat is on crooked.

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    "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."