[NTLUG:Discuss] Terry wants to talk to you using Google Talk

[MadHat Unspecific]

Chris Cox wrote:
> Chris Albertson wrote:
>> * Not a Windows user? No problem. You can also connect to the Google
>> Talk service from any platform using third-party clients
>> (http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html).
>>
>>
>> Also, they recently built google talk into gmail.
> 
> I suppose I'm a bit curious.  What does Google talk buy you?
> 
> Is it more than Just Another IM???

Google talk is Jabber with a few things duct taped on the outside 
(piggybacking the jabber protocol).  Any Jabber client will work with 
it, but if you want to "talk" you have to use the Windows client, last I 
checked.

> 
> I'm not saying I like AIM, MSN, Yahoo... it's just that it
> seems we don't necesarily need another one... or is there
> a good reason to use it??
> 
> I hear that google is trying to bring more of their Windows-only
> or Windows/Mac-only stuff to Linux now.
> 
> 
> I'm curious,
> Chris
> 
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