Comments on: Google Talk Swings Back

By: Ruby

Ruby — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:21:26 +0000

I have a MAC computer. Each time I download it it goes to WORD.

By: The Six Biggest New Ideas In Chat

The Six Biggest New Ideas In Chat — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:22:14 +0000

[...] 6. Rich Media Chat Web cams and microphones have been on the web for a while, but the growth broadband, VOIP standards, and mainstream incorporation through services like Skype, Google Talk, and Yahoo! Messenger have expanded their use in chat programs. Skype and Yahoo! support calling to land lines and mobile phones (Skype is free until the end of the year). PalTalk creates voice chat rooms that can host conversations between thousands of people together at once. While voice and video does not lend itself to simultaneous conversations many IM users carry on, rich media integration brings a subtleness and depth absent from text-based IM. [...]

By: Talkster Launches Presence-Based Service For The Enterprise at Swiss Podcast Directory and Blog

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 07:25:44 +0000

[...] Talkster enables calls between and across phones and PCs, with the necessary software bridge. Unlike Jajah and Hullo, however, Talkster doesn’t require a download and works via the Web through your mobile phone and desktop browsers. This makes it more widely available than Jajah’s Symbian based client. Talkster will have a Java client in 2007. Currently, the system connects mobile phones, VoIM (voice over IM), VOIP phones, and PSTN Phones, with the potential to connect to any service that speaks SIP. You can also use Talkster to place free mobile calls to virtually any phone or buddies on MSN, Google Talk, and Gizmo. [...]

By: Talkster Launches Presence-Based Communication Beta at Swiss Podcast Directory and Blog

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:52:44 +0000

[...] Talkster enables calls from mobile to PC and from mobile to mobile, with a VoIP bridge. Unlike Jajah and Hullo, however, Talkster doesn’t require a download and works via the Web through your mobile phone and desktop browsers. This makes it more widely available than Jajah’s Symbian based client. Talkster will have a Java client in 2007. Currently, the system connects mobile phones, VoIM (voice over IM), VOIP phones, and PSTN Phones, with the potential to connect to any service that speaks SIP. You can also use Talkster to place free mobile calls to virtually any phone or buddies on MSN, Google Talk, and Gizmo. [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Talkster Launches Presence-Based Communication Beta

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:31:33 +0000

[...] Unlike Jajah and Hullo, Talkster doesn’t require a download and works via the web through your mobile phone and desktop browsers. This makes it more widely available than Jajah’s Symbian based client, but Talkster plans to have a Java client out in 2007. Currently, the system connects mobile phones, VoIM (voice over IM), VOIP phones, and PSTN Phones, with the potential to connect to any service that speaks SIP. You can use Talkster to place free mobile calls to virtually any phone or buddies on MSN, Google Talk, and Gizmo. After registering for the service online, you have the tedious, but neccessary task of inputing your contact’s alias, email address (for VoIM), and phone numbers. VoIM contacts need to accept your invitation to be included in Talkster. [...]

By: mike

mike — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:43:39 +0000

I’m not a fan of koolim.com. I’ve never used it for more than an hour because it just annoys the hell out of me… it’s a very unimaginative application which just copied the basic function of meebo, applied its own uncreative user interface, and presented it as a new application. I wouldn’t be surprised if koolim didn’t make it big.

By: Dirk

Dirk — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:10:34 +0000

if you need google talk on the web, try http://www.koolim.com, they have access to google talk via your web browser.

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Google Talk Updates, AOL Interop

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Google Talk Updates, AOL Interop — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:15:30 +0000

[...] The upgrades that Google have been testing to their IM/VOIP client, Google Talk, officially launched today. They include easy file transfer, voicemail and “music status”, which tells your friends what you are listening to. Most of these features require actual use of the Google Talk client (v. access via Jabber), which is only available for Windows machines. [...]

By: Link7 Blog » Ultimul pe lista?

Link7 Blog » Ultimul pe lista? — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:30:27 +0000

[...] E un lucru stiut ca de cate ori apare cate un feature (care-i traducerea romaneasca pentru cuvantul asta?) nou care afecteaza conturile la marele G au obiceiul de a-i da drumul treptat. Adica activeaza per cont incet dar sigur. Ei bine, ceea ce ma enerveaza e ca probabil contul meu e undeva pe la capat in lista lor. Unii colegi de serviciu au deja si transferuri de fisiere in Google Talk iar la mine ciuciu, nici trimisul de voicemail nici statusul cu piesa ascultata momentan nu apare inca. Fir-ar. Si asta cu toate ca am fost un utilizator de Gmail destul de precoce…. [...]

By: sven

sven — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:58:32 +0000

hey is anyone out there using google talk,im told some clients are able to contact advertisers.

By: teknokool.net » links for 2006-07-30

teknokool.net » links for 2006-07-30 — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:42:41 +0000

[...] Techcrunch » Google Talk Swings Back Google Talk adds some new content. (tags: google googletalk) [...]

By: SilverFusion.com » Blog Archive » Google Talk Client Updated, Still Obscure

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:38:57 +0000

[...] Google Talk Swings Back [TechCrunch] [...]

By: -TD-

-TD- — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:45:38 +0000

Mr Cheese. No offense, but people like you are starting to annoy me. Yes GMail does have computers scanning your emails, but at least it gives you targeted ads. If Google has a little group of guys at the Googleplex just reading through your emails, then yes you have a right to complain, but the computers does it so get a grip.

And by the way, why does nobody complain about Google search scanning your search terms and putting ads on the side of the page. If you want to get petty about GMail, then I will be petty back.

Also, I admit Google Video does not have the best UI in the world, but compare it to the likes of Y!IM then its like a master peice.

By: De Gardener

De Gardener — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 05:42:49 +0000

Look Who’s Talking Back…

The new Google Talk, released over the weekend, makes GTalk the best desktop communication software. At least in my opinion.

I always liked GTalk for the clean look, but the wide userbase did not quite agree with me, granting Google a lame 1% market s…

By: Workdrone

Workdrone — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 03:15:55 +0000

It’s not revolution, just a small step forward. Where is Gtalk Out?

By: Mr. Cheese

Mr. Cheese — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:39:15 +0000

Aside from their financially successful search advertising all other Google projects are pretentious disasters. Google Video is the ugliest, most DRM-laden, piece of p00p, and so are most of their other offerings. And considering their evil privacy policies (reading your GMail for ads for example) I think I’ll pass. Forever. Plus how can anybody compare a user base of 44,000 to Y!Messenger’s 63 million.

The problem is that the attitude towards Google is pre-burst 1.0. But then it’s not news that analysts are idiots.

By: Diego Barros

Diego Barros — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:25:13 +0000

Eric: Why is Y! IM crappy? What are you missing from it? At least it offers video chat.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:54:37 +0000

“Note that the Google Chat client is, ridiculously, available only for Windows machines.”

Note also that Yahoo’s chat client for Mac is crappy - that is why Adium is a more popular choice. What’s the use of having a chat client for Mac if nobody’s using it?

By: stabani

stabani — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:34:14 +0000

GTalk will one day perhaps be interoperatible with AIM, though I still use Gtalk/Gchat on a day to day basis. Really, that is the only instant messaging client I need. Simple and clean.
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Then again, I hate Yahoo

By: Boomtrek Travel

Boomtrek Travel — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 05:26:10 +0000

Google needs to integrate with the MSN and Yahoo! networks if it is going to succeed long-term, they don’t have any “ground-breaking” features in my honest opinion. I just saw ‘file-sharing’ as a feature today, hello ICQ pre-Y2K, MSN for the past 5 years. If they can get some crazy VoIP stuff going that I can use a Wi-Fi handset in my house to call people, now that would be cool.

By: Diego Barros

Diego Barros — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 01:41:35 +0000

Why would I want a Mac client when I can talk to GTalkers on iChat or Adium? Voice chat, that’s why. GTalk has very good voice chat quality and I’d like to chat to people from my Mac. And avoid the P2P bandwidth hog that is Skype.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:56:35 +0000

http://www.google.com/support/.....swer=44269 - a list of the supported players: * iTunes
* Windows Media Player
* Winamp
* Yahoo Music Engine

By: Bill V

Bill V — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:35:17 +0000

So far, the music status works with iTunes and Winamp.

Voicemail is fun, but more a novelty than a practical feature. I suppose long-distance loved ones might enjoy getting a surprise voice message from you more so than an email. I’ll use it occasionally, I guess.

I use AIM and Yahoo primarily. Are they dominant in the marketplace? Yes.

If I went Google-Talk-only, would I lose the ability to talk to most of my contacts? Yes.

If Y!/MSN/AIM suddenly all supported an open standard like Jabber, would I ditch their clients and use Google Talk? Definitely.

By: Gibu Thomas

Gibu Thomas — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:00:54 +0000

Hi guys,

This is Gibu Thomas, the CEO of Sharpcast. I appreciate everyone’s comments about Sharpcast Photos. Clearly, we are a work in progress. Right now, I hope you look at it is as a sneak preview into a future where you have a single virtual view of your workspace regardless of what device you are on and regardless of whether you are online or offline where you don’t ever have to do the same thing twice. You could also look at it as a sneak preview to a future where you have one-stop solutions that meets all your data management needs, whether it is easy sharing, transparent backup, instant syncing, or anywhere-access as opposed to multiple point solutions that solve parts of the puzzle.

We have work to do to fill out the gaps in our Photos product, whether it is adding editing and printing features or opening up our APIs to interoperate with other services. But, we will get there and your feedback is certainly important in that process.

I appreciate everyone’s comments and patience as we make our photo solution better and extend the Sharpcast experience to other data types. If you have specific thoughts or questions, you are welcome to email me at gthomas [at] sharpcast [dot] com.

Cheers,

Gibu Thomas
CEO, Sharpcast

By: Fanny Adams

Fanny Adams — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:40:14 +0000

who is “ya”? Is “absolute crap” a technical term? - I don’t get it. I need something more simple and up front.