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- panic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is great - I will definitely be ditching AIM when this happens. What about ads though? The article says:
"* Enabling Google Talk and AIM instant messaging users to communicate with each other, provided certain conditions are met;"
I wonder what those conditions are. I really hope they're not going to stick a bunch of ads on Google Talk. - tellarite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Now if only they would talk with (non-google) Jabber servers! Google talk is BASED on jabber, so why not create an open network? IM is just like email was 15-20 years ago.. If I was on compuserve, I couldn't email my prodigy friends and vice versa. Google, you have a chance here to revolutionize the IM industry with an open standard like Jabber. Please give back just a little, after you have taken so much.
- t.toe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I have a feeling Google Talk will become the iChat of the PC world. bring it on, I say.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You can already use Google Talk in Trillian:
http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=24077 - n8r0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I have been using Google Talk on gaim since I switched to Ubuntu. Google even gives instuctions on the Talk site on how to set up Gaim for Google Talk.
- sovereign3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Now the move by Google makes sense. At first I was baffled as to why Google would want to invest $1 billion into a company that I believe is headed straight into the ground. However, the deal is mutually beneficial. Google gets much needed marketing and content enhancement and AOL is infused with much needed cash.
Smart move Google. - chkMINUS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I really wish they would allow google talk accounts to talk with aim accounts. I could settle on using aim through google talk, but i'd much rather use my gmail account to talk to my aim friends.
- pierre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"What will this mean for other clients like Adium or iChat?"
-I dont see how iChat will be affected by this, it already supports aim? - rhrrs2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah.. if you like being stuck in your browser all day.
- heyrevolver, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I'm sure glad this panned out...
- TomTheBomb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh, wow.
Probably the most interesting part of this Google/AOL deal. - driedwater, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1October 2006....
- st3vo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Still waiting..
- searayman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lol right...... sooon
- ezkiel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"What will this mean for other clients like Adium or iChat?"
Probably absolutly nothing. Unless MSN climbs into bed. - bryan314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice move by google. But I said it before, I don't need an aol account to email aol people, i don't need a yahoo account to email yahoo people. I shouldn't need to use yahoo account/im to im yahoo people. All these Im providers need to suck it up and interconnect their networks.
- grecorj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the conditions are you have to sign up for an aim id.
- echimu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nice one IM to work with AOL and Google :)
- Livewire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0www.meebo.com
- treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why not just make a better version of trillian?
- bassman730, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love how they got right on that project
It's now August 2006 - DLamas87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0......November 2006
- swigler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Talk is a jabber client and according to wikipedia "A unique feature of the Jabber system is that of transports, also known as gateways, which allow users to access networks using other protocols - such as AIM and ICQ (using OSCAR), MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger (using the .NET Messenger Service), Yahoo! Messenger, SMS or E-mail." So how do i use my Talk to message aimers?
- curtissthompson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm sorry but this story is old news, when this was posted on digg, it had already hit the main big media outlets several days before! This is roughly at least a week old! I would have submitted it, but my computer was down. Anyways, it could be good news for Google, depending on how they go about this venture, but regardless Google's stock is heading for another big rise in 2006, just during the day of big Google CES announcements the stock rose over $15! Google is just getting started, if my parents wouldn't have threatened me not to with consequences I would have invested $10,000 - $20,000 in Google at the launch of its IPOs starting at $85 and is currently 5.5 times its initial value, and I personally expect it to reach at least $550 as many do in early 2006 before it is likely to split in the stock market, where I expect it to go on another huge increase! Google is sure to surpase Microsoft as the leader in the Tech industry, in terms of its value at its peak, and influence on the tech industry, while still it differs in some sectors of the tech industry from microsoft!
- Erock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I couldnt agree more with this Digg:)
check this:
http://www.searchbuzz.com/2005/12/21/the-real-value-in-the-aol-google-deal-messaging/ - Shots, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what about ICQ??????
- killerofkiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0google talk does work w/ trillian but u cant use it to talk with AIM people. this will hopefully make it so i can use my @gmail.com for my AIM screename... that would be 1337... but if it has ads....
- bigpeters, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Almost November 2006....
- junkfood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"people who use the Google Talk instant-messaging system will be able to communicate with people using AOL's instant-messaging program -- as long as they sign up for a free AIM screen name"
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=259652&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/ - Lynxpro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0
Any word on if they will ever add "offline messages" to AIM/iChat? That really annoys me that AIM has never implemented what was standard fair on also-AOL-owned ICQ and Yahoo Messenger.
I'm surprised AIM and ICQ haven't merged and then AOL dumping ICQ as an open-source project.
A neat (although almost entirely useless except for novelty) feature I miss is from PowWow (I think that was the name of the IM client) was the ability to see what the other user was typing while messaging you... - gamerzworld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You've got Gmail
- lambda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0
Nobody I know uses AIM, therefore nobody uses AIM. :D - Z_Man, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yay!!!
- shiftless, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I thought this was the most obvious and predictable thing they were going to do...
- captainjy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Who cares about AIM?!?!?! Who really gives a crap about Google Talk or this deal, for that matter????? Bad move by Google.
- SmeRndmGy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0google talk seems cool, but nobody else uses it. hence its useless. i'll stick with gaim until more than me and 6 nerds are on the google talk network.
- Linuxrocks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Weren't MSN and YIM merging their services also?
- dgrinb01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is one great bargain for Google. AOL doesn't value their 30 million active users and Google will make their money back in no time.
Btw, trillian and gaim is using AOL's network illegally. AOL could block them any time (and probably will). - chrisdoan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This won't affect iChat at all. I don't see how it could. iChat already works seamlessly with AIM, and you can set up a Jabber account to run through talk.google.com. You will be able to talk to your AIM friends through your Google account set up on iChat.
Here's the link for setting up a Google account on iChat: http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=24076 - BrianPuccio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is just an AIM transport for their Jabber network. This has been done by numerous other people. Read more about transports here:
http://jabberd.jabberstudio.org/2/docs/app_trans_pmr.html
http://pyaim-t.blathersource.org/index.php - slemmons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I predicted this would happen back when Microsoft and Yahoo were fighting with google for for AOL.
*pats self on back* - Metal_Hurlant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is one more step toward the polarization of the IM world..
On one side you have Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger.
On the other, you have AOL Messenger, and Google Talk.
(and somewhere on the margins, all the adium/trillian/gaim of the world, who, despite their vocal supporters, account for a very small fraction of the market.)
The real question becomes, how long until the two sides start to build a bridge? - gorkish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0S2S! Come on Google, please interoperate with your own protocol! You guys wrote your jabber headend from scratch, surely you implemented it....
- Subtonic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If GAIM has a good tie with Google Talk, I would hope that it means we'll see voice chat in Adium sooner than we think.
As for video...you don't want to know what I'm doing while I'm talking to you via IM. - Phoenixfury, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ok, so who didn't see that one coming when Google bought 5% into AOL. I had a gut feeling this is exactly what that was. :)
- matsiescruff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i REALLY don't like this AOL buy. the one thing that really drew me to google was the text based ads that were non-invasive but when i looked at them were completely relevant. they were awesome! they didn't take up much space and didn't ruin the sleak designs of websites that had them. now they buy AOL, a company that is so detached from the market it has no idea what anyone wants, and we're going to have to deal with big, bulky ads. if anyone needs proof that AOL is completely detached from the market, take a look at AIM TRITON. what an ugly piece of crap that is. it's big, bulky, invasive and well...ugly! i'm sticking with my dead aim and i'll be staying far away from google talk. it's going to have tons of picture ads now. blah.
PS: anyone get a kick out of how you have the choice whether you'd like ads in your buddy list or in your chat window on AIM TRITON? who would want a bunch of ads in their chat window? at least with the buddy list you can minimize the damn thing! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No use for me, since in Europe MSN Messenger is the most popular.
Google should buy 5% of Microsoft so you can integrate MSN Messenger with Google Talk.
:) - Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google talk does work with trillian!
- stray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's great! Now, could you maybe make Gtalk work with Jabber, with which it is compatible?
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