I'm sure everyone has seen the Google Talk interface within GMail by now. They're activating it in some weird order – its enabled on all my email accounts but one – the one that I use the most! Anyways, its just a matter of time I guess.
Initial reaction? Well, it works. But so does Meebo, and a host of other web based IM services. So whats new? Clearly, the archival of chat transcripts is a big plus. I wish I had this feature common across ALL my IM accounts. Right now I just have to use Kopete's history plugin, and keep histories synced across all my different machines with Unison and its a pain.
But its good to see that Google is trying hard to open up Google talk. I just checked whether I could add my Google Talk account to my regular Jabber account (@jabber.org) and it works! And with all the work behind libjingle, soon all of the IMs would be able to provide voice chat through a single, open, standardized protocol (I believe Kopete already has implemented support for Jingle in their development branch). I wonder how Skype will react to this development – my guess is that they will emphasize more on the telephony and VoIP aspects of their service.
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hey soooooooo true .. its a cool idea but a sad conekshun n service i must .. every time m talkin to anybody i type a word n get disconnected damn very veyr irritating ghrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
*@surbhi*: hey, your first comment on my blog! so welcome :-)
If you are signed into gmail, if you scroll down to the very bottom, you’ll see a link that says “Standard interface without chat”. Click on that. Then log on using Google Talk and see if that helps.
Has anyone noticed that Kopete slows down immensely after a fem minutes whilst connected to GTalk? Otherwise Kopete is wonderful. I’m hping this bug is fixed in the next version of Kopete, but I am still waiting for SuSE to release rpms of the newest version.