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- sovereign3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To embellish my last comment, imagine if that were incorporated into Gmail. You could email anyone, anywhere, regardless if you spoke the language or not. Hmmm...
- caffeinated, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1SSL... Sweet!
*** Negotiating XMPP SSL connection...
*** Connection established using EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (TLSv1/SSLv3)
*** ERROR: iq error 405
*** Connect: Account failure. - notkevin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Where I work we have an internal jabber server, it doesn't mean we are going to be offering an instant messaging
- Korivak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice link, Spyhunter. Very elegent idea for a translator - very Google.
- Korivak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We'll just have to see what happens on Wednesday. I've already moved my causual-use webmail from Hotmail (which I was using before Microsoft bought it) to Gmail, now maybe I can finally dump ICQ (which I had pre-AOL) too. And I can trust Google to 'not be evil' nor sell out!
- -dXs-, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"They didn't register talk.google.com . They registered google.com . It's easy to set up a subdomain once you own the domain and it costs you nothing to do it." - dinki
with the exception of creating a pool of servers to run it....
Chances are if google does release an IM it'll use jabber and google isn't the type to impose a particular client on its users. I really like that google translator, that would be a true communications tool, eliminating the language barrier. - digiital, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0 generalleoff ?? Why because the aren't using some close source IM protocol? Come on. IF Google does in fact start to run a IM server, then this is the best news for jabber, not only will the geeks who tend to use it but ever tom-dick-herry will as well and really allow jabber to take off.
- spyhunter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think it would be funny if, contrary to all this speculation (IM, VoIP, Wi-Fi, who knows what else), Google's "communication tool" to be released Wednesday is the new Google translator (see http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-05-22-n83.html ). It would show once and for all that all this speculation is pointless until Google actually announces what they're going to do.
- SuperRob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Interesting, though baffled as to why they wouldn't just leverage Hello ... ads in your IMs, maybe?
- TetrisKid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0true but a person shouldn't be able to connect to Google's internal Jabber server.
- thecapitalizt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think that It may be true. Yes there are companies that have servers up for intra-office use, but thats the key, INTRA! if someone on the outside needed to connect, they would instead just VPN in, and go from there. Looks like someone flipped the switch a few days too early. Now here's hoping that they don't make it invite-only.
- xaph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Jabber? Interesting... I can't wait for Wednesday, when Google releases their "communications tool".
- Snuffkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Seems to me like generalleoff would prefer it if Google used a propiatery technology.
No, this means excellent things for the Jabber community - I figure if it IS going to be Jabber, Google will release a nice Jabber client and hopefully make it GAIM, etc compatiable too. The majority of users may not even know it's Jabber. - salmonmoose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0especially if they leave it open to 3rd party clients, such as gaim :)
- Raian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0At this point they would have to release an IM client just to live up to the hype and keep the stock soaring.
- mornlee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0好消�.
- Cyrealm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A IM with the ability to real time translation? Nice!
- trvr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yes...google does buy some already existing programs...but they make them WAY better....look at picasa, and google earth...they didnt "invent" the apps, but they sure made major improvements on both of them!
- TechnoRabbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love the idea of a Google Babelfish. It'd be frickin' awesome to be able to travel the world and be able to understand everything everyone said... and if text to speech and speech to text technology gets better We'd have the Google Universal Translator.... Google is branching very quickly and it has the possibility of drastically changing our world if it keeps doing so. I think it's time for me to buy some Google stock.
- PacoBell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@generalleoff: I don't get what your beef is with Google leveraging open source technologies. I mean, are you going to complain next about Google Video using VLC? Code reuse isn't a BAD THING(TM), you know.
- kev26, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes, sorry for the bad spelling. I typed too fast and missed a few things. Went back to correct it and got an error when submitting the edits. oh well, my bad.
- sovereign3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@spyhunter: The link you provided (http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-05-22-n83.html) was simply amazing.
Imagine a language translator that was so efficient and robust that it would allow you to search web pages in different languagaes IN YOUR LANGUAGE! If Google researchers have created such an algorithm, we have moved that much more closer to a truly *universal* language. Imagine that, a universal language...
Amazing. - dinki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Well, you didn't register a domain, talk.google.com, in order to use it."
They didn't register talk.google.com . They registered google.com . It's easy to set up a subdomain once you own the domain and it costs you nothing to do it. - micklerlop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0awesome
- 2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very interesting...
I'll try it when I get home and see if I get the same response from that server... - lydon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@Spyhunter.... nice link.
- generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1it has nothing to do with it being open or closed. It has to do with the fact I have been using Jabber for some time and it will just be something else I was already using that Google put there name on. It's fine and all realty but I have already been there so it's kinda pointless for me. It really does seem that anything that says Google is insanely great even if it's a service that's been around for some time already under a different name.
Is this going to be the new Google? have they stopped innovating new ideas and just started buying pre existing technology's and calling it there own? Google Earth is cool and all and I like that Google made it free but I have been using that for a couple years now already.
I'm not ripping on Google. There great. But this is just not ground breaking or revolutionary. - Misos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0For those saying "I run my own server, that means nothing!" - Well, you didn't register a domain, talk.google.com, in order to use it. You also did not make an announcement for a new comm tool be released in two days. :)
- 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Is fule like a mule combined with a fish? I didn't know mules could reproduce, much less with fish.
- generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Use of Jabber don't say a hell of a lot. I run a Jabber server myself among friends. If Google is doing an IM service and they use Jabber I will be less then impressed.
- shooby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0fule? it's fuel..it's cool though, you were probably typing fast to get it into digg first
- knid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0God, do retards write these headline descriptions?
There's probably 30-40 spelling/grammar mistakes in these things per day. Is it so hard to take 5 seconds to read what you just wrote?
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