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Google, Skype and the Future of IM
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.
For anybody interested in discussing Google Talk, check out this site:
http://www.gtalkhelp.com/
Bradley Holt
I type this from a PC with AIM, YIM and MSN all open. I decided to pass on ICQ and Jabber because only a few people I know use them. I have Skype but I can get away with turning that off on the basis that my mic was broken. Technically I should be using IRC as well, becuase I have commitments on several channels, but I just gave up on that. There are waaaaay too many IM programs. It's nobody's fault, that's just the way the technology has evolved. http://www.google.com/talk/ Then today, Google comes along and releases it's own one, ANOTHER one and my brain exploded. Everyone is about to start using it, just like they did gmail, because it's Google and they're cool. w00t. They coulda just released something based on another program, like Trillian or Miranda, or could have rigged something up with a seamless interface over IRC, but they didn't they just went and made a completely different program so I have to to have yet another little flashy icon in my system tray. This is not just any software, where you can pass it off and say "if you don't like it don't use it." It's IM software, and I'm practically forced to use it because people can't make up their mind what IM program to use. So to Google, and any other company thinking of releasing yet another IM program, don't do it. It's not cool; and if you do, please send us all a free stick of RAM so we can keep your program open in the background without a drop in performance.
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Google for Nerds. Stuff About Google. Asshats.
Yeah, it's slightly off. It's become "News for Dorks," the difference being that dorks are nerd wanna-bes. Which is sad.
Seriously, do we need this much coverage of Google? Hey look google now does this and now does that and now does stuff that's been OFFERED BY EVERYONE ELSE.
Granded they do make things better than everyone else, but it's really getting old. There should be a limit to 1 google article a week.
n/t
It makes /. because it's Google. Google will be the new source of all evil in a few years. People on /. will then be bitching about how much Google sucks, how we should have seen it coming, how they knew it all along, how people should wise up to the evil that is Google.
I'm losing track..er..sorry, this is /. isn't it..I'm loosing track...
Do we hate Google or just M$? Are we basking in the glory of the great Google or bemoaning their plans for world dominance?
Is there an official definition of when we start to hate company 'x' and is it based on size, acquisitions or some form of Open Source-related thing?
Do we say that organisations hitting 'critical mass' have 'Jumped the Gates'??
AT&ROFLMAO
Stop posting google garbage.