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Posted: Thu 25 Aug, 2005 00.03
by babyben
Hymagumba wrote:oh I know this thread is about andy's hitlist but on the original subject of gmail I've found this
http://www.google.com/talk/
I really like this, I always think MSN is too bulky on screen, and I use trillian a lot, but I really like the quickness of 'talk'.
Also just trying out the desktop thing.
Posted: Thu 25 Aug, 2005 07.47
by Pete
really? me and moo had a play with it last night and naturally although he loved it (it's so unbloated, blah blah) I hated it. The fact you have to use gmail to send files is dreadful. You can't change anything and it's just too plain.
It's not like google. When they do something (email, maps) they totally reinvent the wheel but this just seems like a crap version of MSN 3 to me. I don't see why they've released it apart from to drive people onto gmail and therefore towards their adverts.
Posted: Thu 25 Aug, 2005 11.15
by James H
Hymagumba wrote:really? me and moo had a play with it last night and naturally although he loved it (it's so unbloated, blah blah) I hated it. The fact you have to use gmail to send files is dreadful. You can't change anything and it's just too plain.
It's not like google. When they do something (email, maps) they totally reinvent the wheel but this just seems like a crap version of MSN 3 to me. I don't see why they've released it apart from to drive people onto gmail and therefore towards their adverts.
According to last night's BBC News it's all about free internet telephony, not just chatting online.
Posted: Thu 25 Aug, 2005 11.22
by James Hatts
James H wrote:According to last night's BBC News it's all about free internet telephony, not just chatting online.
Yesterday's mainstream media coverage was appalling. Google Talk was on the front page of the Evening Standard's early editions, and I also saw Channel 4 News's report.
The reports I saw all banged on about how Google Talk was going to bring down the telephone companies, etc etc. No doubt Google will develop Talk into a fully fledged VoIP telephony (as opposed to PC-to-PC audio chatting) setup to rival Skype et al, but at the moment it really offers nothing that hasn't been around for ages in the form of Yahoo! Messenger and others.
Yet just because it's Google, it's reported as some cutting-edge technological breakthrough.