SoulSe Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 http://talk.google.com/ I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Google will snatch the IM market from AIM and MSN within the year. The official client is available for Windows only, but on the site they explain that it runs with Gaim and a pile of other third party clients. Interestingly, it seems that Google are big on third party clients, while most other IM providers try to force you into using their official client... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 MS was big on open standards and third party clients when ICQ was king. :) But we should give google some credit: they use the open jabber protocol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted August 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 Yeah, I just saw that. What's neat is that they've added voice to Jabber (or their flavour of it). Problem is, most of the third party clients won't do speech. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fangbite Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 Looks interesting but unless google does something miracless with this, I don't think it'll beat AOL instant messanger (the most popular I've seen). I'm glad to see google doing this, but its nothing that looks like a sure fire winner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 downloaded it - installed it - how do I find you guys to add to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 You have to use the jabber link: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=27264&hl=jabber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 Can you? Don't you need a gmail username? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux_learner Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 (edited) nopers. just follow the google talk howto. http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/ans...py?answer=24073 now i just need some people to add :P Edited August 24, 2005 by linux_learner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 yeah - it's easy enough to use with a 3rd aprty client but (I believe) you need a gmail username to sign up (which is fine - I have one) but you also need a gmail username to add a buddy! Therefore, a jabber name won't work... If you look through those instructions you'll see that you're usign ther jabber protocol to connect to a gmail specific server... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jza Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 I just configure my GAIM to it. here are the google instructions: http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/ans...py?answer=24073 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 24, 2005 Report Share Posted August 24, 2005 You can't talk to non-gmail/google talk users right now, but apparently they're working on it. So, the jabber field that I added to peoples profiles won't suffice. We'll need a google talk field too - *sigh* - more work for me :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 25, 2005 Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 i'm connecting to it through psi now... tyme81@gmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted August 25, 2005 Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 got it running under adiumX terminaladdict@gmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted August 25, 2005 Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 (edited) I just tried it on gaim... but do'nt have a buddy yet :unsure: aioshin@gmail.com Edited August 25, 2005 by aioshin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted August 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2005 It's amazing how quickly this is spreading! Well, so far I'm impressed. Google are going to take over the world, one computer at time. Because of Google Talk, I now have gmail (never needed it before) and lots of people who just had gmail now have IM. I'm connecting to it wit AdiumX and I've also used iChat and Gaim - both seemless. This is also showcasing what an awesome transport Jabber really is and what can be achieved with it; VoIP, video... really neat. I've heard rumours of Google making a play for Skype, anyone else heard that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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