Google Instant Messenger?

Post by **Catfish_Man** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:52 pm

Sweet. Works fine

Post by **Crypt** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:29 am

dam its true afterall

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 12:35 am

… and then they ban you from it

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:54 am

zaudragon wrote:… and then they ban you from it

Huh? I'm using it right now.

rustybrick · Post by **rustybrick** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:54 am

Is it working for you or are you getting a gaim error.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:00 am

rustybrick wrote:Is it working for you or are you getting a gaim error.

I am online and using it, no errors or anything of the sort.

rustybrick · Post by **rustybrick** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:03 am

Anyone mind posting a step by step guide to getting this running on Adium?

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:17 am

rustybrick wrote:Anyone mind posting a step by step guide to getting this running on Adium?

This is what you do...

1. Add an account, select "Jabber" as the protocol.
2. Your screen name is everything before the '@gmail.com'.
3. Server is 'gmail.com'.
4. Click "show more options" and make sure "use TLS if available" is checked. Leave "Force old SSL" and "allow plaintext..." unchecked for now. Connection port should be 5222, connection server should be 'talk.google.com' without the quotes.

(courtesy of this)

shanecavanaugh · Post by **shanecavanaugh** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:22 am

Previously I could only connect using port 5223 and SSL authentication, but I just got a message from user "gmail.com" saying "The broken link has been fixed. Thanks for being our first users!" and now using port 5222 and TLS authentication works.

This is rather exciting. TUAW is saying that iChat's Audio Chat feature works with Google's Talk feature.

rustybrick · Post by **rustybrick** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:27 am

Right, but that is what confuses me...

ACCOUNT
Jabber ID: rustybrick (leave off the gmail.com?)
Password: password

PERSONAL
Alias: left blank

OPTIONS
Connect Server: talk.gmail.com
Resource: Adium
Port: 5222
Mail: unchecked
Security: Use TLS

PRIVACY
Encryption: Encrypt chats as requested
Typing: Checked

PROXY:
nothing checked....

Still GAIM error.

shanecavanaugh · Post by **shanecavanaugh** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:31 am

http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/ ... swer=24075

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:32 am

rustybrick wrote:ACCOUNT
Jabber ID: rustybrick (leave off the gmail.com?)
Password: password

Ahh, the wording is not very good for that part. You do need the '@gmail.com'.

rustybrick · Post by **rustybrick** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:45 am

my problem was connect server, talk.gmail.com versus talk.google.com

dumb, dumb - sorry.

works!

rustybrick@

micah · Post by **micah** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:10 am

Adium is one of their official recommended clients for Google Talk!

http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html

Post by **Crypt** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:21 am

if anyone wants to talk im me at trailofred@gmail.com

SeaWolf · Post by **SeaWolf** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:29 am

It's a bit of bummer that you don't seem to be able to use it to chat to other Jabber users on different servers.

Hope they change that.

David Munch · Post by **David Munch** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:49 am

shanecavanaugh wrote:This is rather exciting. TUAW is saying that iChat's Audio Chat feature works with Google's Talk feature.

Funny, 'cause Google says no.

MarsCleanR · Post by **MarsCleanR** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 9:55 am

rustybrick wrote:Right, but that is what confuses me...

ACCOUNT
Jabber ID: rustybrick (leave off the gmail.com?)
Password: password

PERSONAL
Alias: left blank

OPTIONS
Connect Server: talk.gmail.com
Resource: Adium
Port: 5222
Mail: unchecked
Security: Use TLS

PRIVACY
Encryption: Encrypt chats as requested
Typing: Checked

PROXY:
nothing checked....

Still GAIM error.

i changed "resource" to "Gaim"... works (now) perfectly for me...

drakino · Post by **drakino** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:22 am

zaudragon wrote:… and then they ban you from it

Nope, quite the opposite actually. I connected several hours before the web site launched, and got this as a system message:

"The broken link has been fixed. Thanks for being our first users!"

Readign through their site, including the developers section, this is a multi step release. Right now they want the initial client out, and to get third parties like Adium to support not only the jabber part, but the future SIP changes they will roll into the service. They also talk quite a bit about having one IM service and talkign to anyone, aka they are working on letting this one account talk to AIM/MSN etc... The analogy they use is that there are a ton of phone companies out there, and with any one of them you can pick up a phone and dial anyone else in the world without caring who their provider is.

Google it seems is using Google Talk as a way to try and unify not only IM, but the emerging popular VoIP.

And for once, I think it might actually work. Google is getting amazingly powerful in the technology space now, and soon will have about 6 billion in cash to play with.

Now, for the conspiracy theories to start, why did Apple add Jabber to iChat and in doing so remove the AOL buddy icon with Tiger? Yes, I know Tiger Server includes a jabber server in it. I just find it interesting none the less that the out of box IM client on OS X works seamlessly day one with the Google IM service.

MBHockey · Post by **MBHockey** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:55 am

Very cool -- Adium is listed as a capable GoogleIM client

http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html

Not Proteus or Fire, though