Google Instant Messenger? $100 Laptop?

[OrangeSoul]

Buried in this NYT story by John Markoff, which touched on Google Sidebar launch (covered in the post below): it plans to unveil on Wednesday a "communications tool" that is potentially a clear step beyond the company's search-related business focus.

While executives would not disclose what the new software tool might be, Google has long been expected to introduce an IM service to compete with services offered by AOL, Yahoo and MSN. Last year some rumors arose that Google's IM platform and client would be based on the open source Jabber protocol.

And then, Markoff raises his pet speculation: a Google phone, based on the acquisition of Android and a Google-branded smart phone has long been a pet project of founder Larry Page, and earlier this year Google invested $2 million in a project by Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the M.I.T. Media Laboratory, to develop a $100 wireless laptop.

Google IM

Google Phone

Google Laptop

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http://www.paidcontent.org/pc/arch/2005_08_22.shtml#015451

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/22/technology/22google.html

[Soham]

lol nice find

[OrangeSoul]

lol nice find

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found it on DiggNation

[Daniel Tablas]

Google is starting to turn into the next MS

[drumy]

nooo...its going to be the next ms

[xp1ode]

Google is starting to turn into the next MS

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Which would be a great thing for customers, just in case they also ever decide to make their own OS, then it means more choices for the consumer. Also we would have another company competing to make consumer computing all around better. Let's see what google decides to bring out for us now....

[Daniel Tablas]

Yeah I guess you're right..

[Louis]

Don't forget Google Wi-Fi.

[Bawx]

They should honestly stick to the search engine.

Won't they start slacking and Google will start sucking? I don't want to use MSN. :(

[fuBar.]

It's a free country, they can do whatever they want, which follows the law and regulations of business.

[Sigurd]

I would definatley use Google IM

[Bhav]

competition with MS is great. i mean look at how many new and innovative (albeit similar) features MS, Google and Yahoo have come out with since google started becoming really popular. the more pressure google puts on MS, the more MS has to do to stay competitive, and the more it'll do for free :)

[Slimy]

looking forward to trying it out, just hope it's not another google security/privacy problem

[505]

I would definatley use Google IM

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Why??? You already know it's that good. And besides, it a messanger, it's only usefull if other people use it. Otherwise you're just an island.

[Sigurd]

Why??? You already know it's that good. And besides, it a messanger, it's only usefull if other people use it. Otherwise you're just an island.

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I guess i am what you would call a Google FanBoy?

[rajputwarrior]

i remember when people used to say AOL was going to be the next M$, definitely google now

[Lare2]

I guess i am what you would call a Google FanBoy?

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Brutally honest (Y)

[Glowstick]

Here's hoping that Google does indeed use XMPP. I'd like to see ICQ, YIM and MSN die finally.

[Colin-uk Veteran]

id love to see Google make an OS

that should bring down the MS OS prices a bit :p

[Louie Mantia]

Why??? You already know it's that good. And besides, it a messanger, it's only usefull if other people use it. Otherwise you're just an island.

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tons of people jumped on the gmail bandwagon, and you know what, google's instant messenger might just use those addresses/names and it'll be easier, already a user base. you never know. that's why. people used gmail as soon as they could, what makes you think people wont use google's instant messenger like that?

// Lou

[Angel Blue01]

We don't need another IM!

What would their OS be based on?

[Mathiasdm]

We don't need another IM!

What would their OS be based on?

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Linux, of course :p

[505]

tons of people jumped on the gmail bandwagon, and you know what, google's instant messenger might just use those addresses/names and it'll be easier, already a user base.  you never know.  that's why. people used gmail as soon as they could, what makes you think people wont use google's instant messenger like that?

// Lou

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It's called the 'network effect' Some technologies are only usefull when a certain critical mass is using it. GMail is still e-mail, and there were already billions of users using it - there was already and critical mass. A Google IM system will need to have a critical mass first before it can be successfull. Without any other users to chat with it is completelu useless.

[Shoop]

It might be just my computer that does this but when i type http://whatever.google.com it says it doesn't exist, but if i type http://talk.google.com it redirects me to googles own 404 page saying google.com/talk/ was no found on this server :blink:

[sn00pie]

Google is the bestest.