http://www.smashsworld.com/2005/08/im-on-g...k-right-now.php

If you want to use this, you might want to get gaim now. Click the gaim man icon in my sig.

I guess they found out it's been leaked. I can't log on now. Oh well. Tommorow it's going to be officially announced.

how do you get it?

ahh well no point in trying with trillian now.

but trillian's supposed to work, and that's good.

Hmm, so this is a new type of chatting network/system, nice... but I think most people who are going to use this are engadget/slashdot/hackaday or anyone else interested in stuff like that. Like me


Not free trillian, trillian pro only.

http://www.google.com/talk/
download it, or use Trillian or Gaim, anyway add me:
johncena4president@gmail.com

haha I will.

ahh, too bad for free trillian users

PM me i'll give ya pro 3.1

but isn't pro.. you have to pay?

I'd get it...except I don't have pro...oh well. Wonder how good the sound quality is...

None of my contacts have microphones, so it'd be pretty useless for me.

I already made a topic on this.

[edit]

Topics Merged.

I strongly reccomend gaim over trillian. And I don't want any piracy going on, ok?

what's be benifits of gaim over trillian?

besides jabber

..strange..my friend asked me for my email, and then sent me the link to dl gtalk. And then I dont need trillian/gaim like you all suggest?? Why can I login w/o using gaim/trillian and you all have to??

Wha?!


Audio ain't so great w/ Gtalk..I like MSN better.

QUOTE(sadolakced acid @ Aug 24 2005, 3:18 PM)

what's be benifits of gaim over trillian?
besides jabber

Auto-idler. :o It also loads faster, and there are colors in the chatrooms that don't blind you like on AIM. That's why I use GAIM instead of Trillian now.. but direct-connect on GAIM sucks.

QUOTE(DaTru KataLYST @ Aug 24 2005, 4:51 PM)

And then I dont need trillian/gaim like you all suggest?? Why can I login w/o using gaim/trillian and you all have to??

It's just more convenient to have all the messengers in one, which is what GAIM and Trillian are - mutli-messengers.

ahh...

can gaim merge contacts?

as in... instead of having "alienshards" twice (once for each aim acount), it has it only once?

QUOTE(sadolakced acid @ Aug 24 2005, 6:31 PM)

ahh...
can gaim merge contacts?
as in...  instead of having "alienshards" twice (once for each aim acount), it has it only once?

Er... I think so.. not entirely sure, though.

does gaim work for windows xp?

yes it does

I got Gtalk, it all seems pointless if you dont know anyone with gmail. Which I dont. So I guess it IS pointless. Doesnt have alot of functions as far as I can see.

Anyone else?

Yeah, I agree. I also don't have a mic so I can't do the voice talk (which is also available on other messanging programs too).

I like it because I don't need Teampspeak now. Meaning one less program running.

ohh ok, gotcha. Thanks.

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I don't like the quality of the audio talking though. =/

Yeah, see for me its just AIM, Mozilla, and occasionally Musicmatch going, and thats it. I dont really need anything combining programs or anything.

And due to my lack of gmail contacts, or anyone wholl remotely want to use gtalk, I find it useless to me. Heh.

it's cute... i like how it minimizes and how it's so simple and clean... i'll wait until they've finished it... aim's still better for now cause i can paste images.

pointless. I have Ichat.

It's actually a really interesting idea. The Jabber IM protocol is open, and Google encourages the connection of clients other than their own (unlike *cough* AOL *cough* and *cough* Microsoft *cough*). I'm interested in seeing with Google Talk goes...if anyone has the power to take on AOL Instant Messenger, it's Google.

Funny thing is, Microsoft was complaining how AOL had a closed network, until they released MSN messenger and had a closed network themselves.

I downladed Google Talk.. I just don't have many friends that use gmail. Plus I kinda stopped using any IM client a few months ago.

As for the client itself.. It's simple, but a little too simple for me, I think.

You can use any Jabber-compatible client with Google Talk (which includes gaim).

Yeah.. I knew about that, but I don't anything like that. I use Trillian, but I didn't really like Trillian Pro 3 so I didn't keep it for long ($25 well spent). *shrug* I guess I don't care for it because I don't IM much anymore.

Google's planning to standardize multimedia IM'ing.

Go Google. And kudos for supporting an open IM protocol.

So, they are trying to combine all the protocols, so Aim users can communicate with MSN users and etc? I didn't get the Article that much.

But I know one thing for sure.

They hired Sean Egan!!

I don't know anyone that uses GoogleTalk.

Not exactly. Google did acquire stock in AOL, and there is talk of allowing AIM users to communicate with Jabber users and vice-versa--but that wouldn't include MSN. The content of the article, however, is about Google and the Jabber Software Foundation's attempts to release an open standard for multimedia IM'ing, meaning any software could include functionality that would make it compatible with that standard.

(Edit)
Actually, another article details the AOL-Google-MSN "alliance":

Google has implemented the industry-standard Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol.

Here's a good article on Google Talk, Jabber, XMPP, and the adoption of any of those three things.