Google Instant Messenger?

uttaddmb · Post by **uttaddmb** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:46 pm

From the NY Times:

Google executives say they plan to unveil on Wednesday a "communications tool" that is potentially a clear step beyond the company's search-related business focus.

While executives would not disclose what the new software tool might be, Google has long been expected to introduce an instant messaging service to compete with services offered by America Online, Yahoo and MSN from Microsoft.

Interesting stuff. If anyone can take on AOL, it's Google.

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:58 pm

It’s been talked about before…

Post by **The_Tick** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:32 pm

http://hello.com/

Aleron · Post by **Aleron** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:49 pm

as always NO mac support ^^

Post by **The_Tick** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:13 pm

Aleron wrote:as always NO mac support ^^

If you have issues with it, I'd suggest getting a windows box. Otherwise be patient.

SeaWolf · Post by **SeaWolf** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 1:56 am

Since Google is one of the better companies for being open about this sort of thing, I'd suspect that in the event that they actually do launch an IM system, they'll probably make it very open and easy for 3rd-party clients (like GAIM and Adium) to support it.

Adam Iser · Post by **Adam Iser** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:56 am

SeaWolf wrote:Since Google is one of the better companies for being open about this sort of thing, I'd suspect that in the event that they actually do launch an IM system, they'll probably make it very open and easy for 3rd-party clients (like GAIM and Adium) to support it.

http://hello.com/

Post by **The_Tick** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:10 am

Adam Iser wrote:
SeaWolf wrote:Since Google is one of the better companies for being open about this sort of thing, I'd suspect that in the event that they actually do launch an IM system, they'll probably make it very open and easy for 3rd-party clients (like GAIM and Adium) to support it.
http://hello.com/

http://www.hello.com/ !

Adam Iser · Post by **Adam Iser** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:37 am

The_Tick wrote:
Adam Iser wrote:
SeaWolf wrote:Since Google is one of the better companies for being open about this sort of thing, I'd suspect that in the event that they actually do launch an IM system, they'll probably make it very open and easy for 3rd-party clients (like GAIM and Adium) to support it.
http://hello.com/
http://www.hello.com/ !

http://www.hello.com !!

da_baum · Post by **da_baum** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:38 am

Adam Iser wrote:
The_Tick wrote:
Adam Iser wrote: http://hello.com/
http://www.hello.com/ !
http://www.hello.com !!

Dunno if anyone's mentioned it yet, but what about http://www.hello.com ?

Githon · Post by **Githon** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 7:06 am

da_baum wrote:
Adam Iser wrote:
The_Tick wrote: http://www.hello.com/ !
http://www.hello.com !!
Dunno if anyone's mentioned it yet, but what about http://www.hello.com ?

Is that anything like http://www.goodbye.com ?

SeaWolf · Post by **SeaWolf** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:10 am

Isn't it more intended as a way of swapping pictures than actually talking to other people?

MBHockey · Post by **MBHockey** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 1:42 pm

Post by **The_Tick** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:23 pm

SeaWolf wrote:Isn't it more intended as a way of swapping pictures than actually talking to other people?

No!

http://www.hello.com/how_it_works.php

"Hello is special because it lets you share your pictures along with your messages.

andru_911 · Post by **andru_911** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 4:08 pm

http://slashdot.org/articles/05/08/23/1 ... 17&tid=215

Aleron · Post by **Aleron** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 5:56 pm

The_Tick wrote:
Aleron wrote:as always NO mac support ^^
If you have issues with it, I'd suggest getting a windows box. Otherwise be patient.

i never said i wanted to use this service ;-)
but i just recognised that there is, as always, no mac support ^^

and: why should i use a win box? i don't like windows at all ;-) i love my 4 or 5 years old mac ;-)
but i'll update to a intel-notebook (mac os x) as soon as possible

phil333 · Post by **phil333** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 9:43 pm

It's going to be jabber based, so can't we use it with Adium?

chr · Post by **chr** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:05 pm

phil333 wrote:It's going to be jabber based, so can't we use it with Adium?

It seems to work fine in Adium already (using talk.google.com as server, and checking the TLS checkbox).

You can log in with any GMail account. It even uses the full name of the contacts from the GMail setup.

Screenshots:

http://agge.net/google/conversation.png
http://agge.net/google/accounts.png

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:14 pm

chr wrote:
phil333 wrote:It's going to be jabber based, so can't we use it with Adium?
It seems to work fine in Adium already (using talk.google.com as server, and checking the TLS checkbox).

You can log in with any GMail account. It even uses the full name of the contacts from the GMail setup.

Screenshots:

http://agge.net/google/conversation.png
http://agge.net/google/accounts.png

Wow, you’re good. Another thing: talk.google.com will be the site when it’s up; someone sent a jabber raw command via telnet and it worked there.

chr · Post by **chr** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:22 pm

This guy also got it to work with Gaim and iChat (and more):

http://www.smashsworld.com/2005/08/im-o ... ht-now.php