So I’m cautiously optimistinc about Google Talk rocking the house. Their choice of protocols is superb. The voice stuff is very cool but is something I will probably have to do without until the chat protocol is documented and/or the fine folks ag Gaim add it to their app.
Unfortunately talk.google.com is a bit of a walled garden, though it looks like they’re going to open up gateways with a few select partners, including the I-think-they’re-cool Gizmo Project. What would be really cool though (and is not mentioned at all in the FAQs) is a Skype/Gizmo/Etc-style GoogleOut and GoogleIn service. Perhaps this could be as simple as a partnership with the Gizmo guys or as intricite as rolling their own solution.
For now anyway, talk.google.com is one of many (now seven) different IM servers I connect to every day. I had a need for a home and away AIM account before that was baked in to that service, and now I answer to both, so they’re there. I don’t actually use my jabber.com account a whole lot but the others (MSN, Yahoo!, jabber.org.uk) get enough use that I should really be connected to if I’m online.
Sure, I’d love to connect to one server and have everyone on the planet be able to reach me, but until that happens, I’ll be on all 7.
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I’ve only just discovered IM, days before Google Talk appeared, and I have 6 accounts, although I only use 4 of them.
AIM (.Mac, actually), AIM, ICQ (before I realised they were all essentially the same thing; MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger (or whatever it’s called), and Jabber (Gmail).
Luckily, there are clients that allow us to use all of them at the same time – otherwise I wouldn’t bother. I suspect there are lots of people out there who have one or two accounts with services, and use the vanilla clients that come with them. Ugh!
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Luckily, there are clients that allow us to use all of them at the same time – otherwise I wouldn’t bother. I suspect there are lots of people out there who have one or two accounts with services, and use the vanilla clients that come with them. Ugh!