Google have always said they want to move away from depending on advertising, so it seems like an obvious chance.īTW I just made my first call, and the voice quality is stunning – sounded like my gf was in the room, we could even listen to music over the phone… Odd, because it’s supposed to be the same doodahs as Skype. I see the long-term profits in competing with Skype – charging for the VoIP-to- normal phones later. Google Hangouts is an application that allows real-time chat, voice. The current situation is insane – as if you could only send Hotmail to other Hotmail users.Īs far as profits go, Google have said that the gmail-only thing is just for beta. Message includes applications for chatting (also known as instant messenging. Trillian and GAIM are useful (although don’t support voice) but since they have no clout, they haven’t forced MSN, ICQ and Yahoo to open up their networks. Basically what this is working towards is making any IM client work with any other. They’ve made it with an open standard and are already in negotiations with a couple of VoIP companies to get them to make compatible products. And, just like with e-mail (unless youre using. njour Icon Twitter Icon LJ Talk Icon Lotus Sametime Icon Novell Groupwise Icon Gadu-Gadu Icon. AIM Icon Google Talk Icon XMPP Icon ICQ Icon IRC Icon Bo. Google’s really big thing that they’ve done with Talk, is completely invisible. Google Talk uses Jabber, LiveJournal Talk does it, a dozen independent servers do it and so does Hyves. A couple of minutes ago we published the second beta for Adium 1.5.11. Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, XMPP (Jabber), ICQ, IRC and more. I must admit I’m a sucker for anything Google, and installed it on that basis…
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