Google Talk: Another step in Google's march towards desktop domination
Om Malik points out that Google's Jabber based instant messenger is now available. Google is making a concerted effort to dominate the three most common activities that one does on the internet - email, IM and search. Since Google Talk is based on Jabber, you can connect to it using other clients as well. I hope Google Talk will integrate well with all the other Google services, esepcially Orkut. After all, both IM and social networks are all about keeping in touch. I don't see any obvious integration between the two right now in Google Talk but I sure hope that will change in the susbequent versions.
Google Talk is in beta right now just like every other application Google has ever come out with :)
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"just like every other application Google has ever come out with"
LOL!!
Maybe they have a different classification for software than the rest of the world. On the other hand, BETAs are doing ok, people are paying to use them (Flickr) they're being sold for millions (Flickr again). And keep it in Beta, whenever a customer complains, the rest of the user base screams "Give em a break, its just beta" (Flickr yet again)
And Google has this bad habit of releasing software and forgetting about it. Blogger's decomposing...
Posted by: Saad | August 24, 2005 01:21 PM