Trillian googletalk5/3/2023 We are using the federation opportunity with EarthLink and Sipphone to develop a set of guidelines by which all members of the federated network can work together to ensure that we protect our users while maximizing the reach of the network. We do believe, however, that it is important to balance openness with ensuring that we maintain a safe and reliable service that protects user privacy and blocks spam and other abuses. We look forward to federating with any service provider who shares our belief in enabling user choice and open communications. The company believes that "service choice" should not affect who you can communicate with, much in the way that your choice of phone service providers doesn't limit who you can call. Put simply, Google is planning to push interoperability by obtaining agreements with other IM and VoIP partners that would allow inter-service communications. ![]() The one shining light I see with Google Talk is the plans for federation of the service. Of course, if you've been using other IM clients, you've had that capability already, and Google Talk isn't particularly revolutionary in that regard. On the plus side, the VoIP integration is good. (Rather than strain your eyes, I'll decode the above for you: it says that Clint sent me a message, first "same" and then "I was using Adium at home.") Advertisement ![]() In the meantime, however, this is all you get, because the client does not provide a built-in way to see your chat history. %2Fprotocol%2Fchatstates%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fcli%3Amessage%3EĪs you can see, that's a format appropriate for a URL, which leads us to believe that the log files may eventually be sent to Gmail for storage. Here's a bit of conversation between Clint and myself, as represented in the log file (breaks inserted for formatting purposes): In fact, the logs generated by the client are difficult to visually parse because they are URL encoded. It doesn't save your chat history to the Gmail cluster, as I had hoped. Sure, it shows you when you have new e-mail, and even lets you search your e-mail from within the client, but that's it. However, that's just about where the integration ends. It does leverage the Gmail userbase for account access, so if you have a Gmail account, all you need is to download the client. Underwhelming is the word of the day, and this client has a long way to go if it's going to impress those of us who live and die by instant messenger (e.g., me). If whiz-bang is what you're looking for, don't look at Google Talk. In the meantime, any client with XMPP specs should be golden. Mac OS X and Linux support are planned for the future. To make matters worse, Google only provides a Windows client, but as you can see there are other options for the moment. Indeed, curiously, some of us up in the Orbiting HQ can connect to the GT network using GAIM, but not Google's own client. Google Talk does, in fact, use Jabber, and we're having success here in the Labs getting on to GT with GAIM, Trillian, iChat, and even Adium. Want to send a file? Pshaw! Want to have a group chat? You're too social! Want to view your previous chat sessions easily? Get outta here! Want little emoticons? Skins? Go bug somebody else! Google Talk is Spartan in the way that the Lacedemonians were Spartan: it seems ancient! ![]() ![]() It's also absent almost every feature found in other IM clients. Welcome to the Stone Age of instant messaging! Google Talk has launched, and I'll give you my mini-review right now.
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