Just launched, and late

By Jason

24 Aug 2005


Just launched, and late to the table when Skype has the voice over IP market, and there are other open IM clients out there. But this one is based on Jabber, with the goal of connecting everyone with everyone, one app to IM everyone, and using XML protocols google can squeeze more advertising revenues via IM, and your other information.

However, no mac version as yet, and the abilities of Jabber have not been enabled in it yet, so you can’t yet use it to connect to everyone, despite their goals. For a review and analysis go to bbc.co.uk

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  1. Comment by Alan Hartung

    5.48 pm on 24 Aug 2005

    The new iChat on Tiger works with Google Talk, however. So even though there’s not a Mac version, it’s Mac-compatible. Which I’m stoked about. Time to suck it up and upgrade to Tiger… not just because of this, but this is just one more motivator :D

  2. Comment by Jason Clark

    6.01 pm on 24 Aug 2005

    you’ll love Tiger Alan :-) thanks for the ichat info

  3. Comment by Randy

    11.27 pm on 24 Aug 2005

    I’m in…rjumper

  4. Comment by Alan Hartung

    5.02 am on 25 Aug 2005

    I hope so, Jason.

    I was wrong about one of the Google Talk things, though… you can’t do voice, it’s just the IM. A closer inspection of the other clients page revealed it’s only the IM features.

    Which is crazy. Why even have the link…\

    Oh well, there’s always skype!!!

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