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  • Adam August 23, 2005 @ 5:40 pm

    I just tried it using Gaim exactly as he described, both in the “user@gmail.com” format and just plain “user” format, connecting to talk.google.com, and it didn’t work. Hmm…

  • Michael August 23, 2005 @ 5:43 pm

    Yeah, I’m beginning to think they’re on to us. I’m getting “Not Allowed” errors. Unless I’m doing something wrong….

  • mini-d August 23, 2005 @ 5:46 pm

    Well, I’ve tryed it in iChat using audio and video and it works smooth. The video quality is not good because the iSight poor way to capture light i guess and the MPEG4 Codec they should use.

  • max August 23, 2005 @ 6:26 pm

    Cool, really works! I was able to chat with a Gmail and Google Talk user. I can´t test the video mode :(

  • Adam August 23, 2005 @ 6:47 pm

    I was finally able to get my Gaim client to connect using the setup format shown here: http://n3ldan.info/blog/?p=45

  • Robert August 23, 2005 @ 7:42 pm

    It’s been released (at least I get a download link for the official client).

    http://desktop.google.com/download/googletalk/googletalk-setup.exe

  • monkeypup August 23, 2005 @ 10:25 pm

    Got gaim to work (finally!).

  • Jim Andrews August 24, 2005 @ 1:14 am

    Knowing (or intuiting) the 12th commandment “Thou shalt not bash Google” (my numbering may be worng but it seems to follow closely after “Thou shalt cast no aspersions on Firefox”) it took some guts for Chris Pirillo to write
    http://channels.lockergnome.com/windows/archives/20050823_aol_msn_icq_yahoo_skype_google_talk.phtml
    and I’m wondering aloud how long it may take for anyone to look at security implications of this new entry on the IM scene.

  • Rich Boakes August 24, 2005 @ 6:18 am

    Chris Samuel in Melbourne has made a few notes on getting it to work with Kopete in KDE.

  • Ajay D'Souza August 24, 2005 @ 6:31 am

    Tried my hand out at Google Talk today. Seems to be ok and gives good access to Google. However, still needs to have a lot of features added to it before it can be comparable to the other Jabber clients or Yahoo! and MSN

  • Jeff Minard August 24, 2005 @ 8:15 am

    You know, they give you pretty easy to follow setup instructions… (click on a client name)

  • Lloyd D Budd August 24, 2005 @ 8:18 am

    Is a jabber integration in WordPress’s future? ;-)

  • aa August 24, 2005 @ 8:42 am

    i cant get the google talk client to work
    it said could not authenticate

  • Bug-E August 24, 2005 @ 9:48 am

    Go check Google’s site at http://talk.google.com/, there’s details on how to get Gaim to work. I’ve managed to do so, and it works great. I can’t get the curses-based centericq to work though.

    And so far, comparing Google Talk’s voice capabilities with Skype, Skype so far wins, both with quality and latency.

  • Shahab August 24, 2005 @ 10:56 am

    Hmm… I dont know if they have released it in any hurry .. They couldve waited and put some more features in it .. This product cant just live by the hype .. I mean there are no special features … Why will users switch to this ..?

    On a different note I liked it .. :P .. Very low on resource usage ..

  • zoogies August 24, 2005 @ 2:00 pm

    You mean to tell me, GoogleTalk is today news, and I installed it today? I’m not…several weeks or several months behind everyone else?

    This is terrific.

    Although, I have to go try and figure out what this has to do with search…hm. I don’t think it’ll replace AIM for me, but it deserves a shot…as for Skype or related programs, unfortunately, I don’t have a microphone and my sound card seems to refuse to play anything other than .mp3, .mpg and .rm files.

  • aa August 25, 2005 @ 11:44 am

    i got it to work
    dont know how

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