Google Talk website OPEN!

[Colin Holywell]

  spacey said:

i don't know if anyone asked this already, but does miranda have a jabber plugin? can we use miranda to connect to google talk?

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Yes, I was logging on to Googles server with Miranda before the client was released.

[eliazu]

miranda can connect to google with the jabber plugin, but, soon there will be a google plugin.

[Plastique]

a "dlink..." has invited several people. I wanna try this too :p

[kevcart3]

I'm having a problem with this.

Every time I try to sign in, I get an authentication error, even though I was signed in to it earlier with no problem. I can't figure out what the issue would be.

EDIT: I can log-in using Gaim, but not with Google Talk. I tried re-installing (including deleting any registry entries) with no luck. :wacko:

Edited August 24, 2005 by kevcart3

[theyarecomingforyou]

I don't think emoticons are really needed... they are already a different colour and it would be too easy for them to be a distraction/bloat - minimalist emoticons could work, but anything like the MSN style would be awful for GTalk.

I would like it if an email wasn't sent each time you invite someone. Also, bold and italic text would be nice, though I feel colours would be too much. One of the things I like about it so far is how little bloat there is and how they haven't tried to throw in everything and the kitchen sink.

[DigitalSnow]

  theyarecomingforyou said:

I don't think emoticons are really needed... they are already a different colour and it would be too easy for them to be a distraction/bloat - minimalist emoticons could work, but anything like the MSN style would be awful for GTalk.

I would like it if an email wasn't sent each time you invite someone. Also, bold and italic text would be nice, though I feel colours would be too much. One of the things I like about it so far is how little bloat there is and how they haven't tried to throw in everything and the kitchen sink.

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Place _ _ around you text to make it italic and * * around your text to make it bold.

[theyarecomingforyou]

  DigitalSnow said:

Place _ _ around you text to make it italic and * * around your text to make it bold.

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lol, thanks I didn't know that. Well, that's one feature off the to-do list, though it would be nice if the interface would reflect that ability.

[ZonoBurk]

  kevcart3 said:

I'm having a problem with this.

Every time I try to sign in, I get an authentication error, even though I was signed in to it earlier with no problem. I can't figure out what the issue would be.

EDIT: I can log-in using Gaim, but not with Google Talk. I tried re-installing (including deleting any registry entries) with no luck.  :wacko:

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I've been getting that since yesterday. See here. :cry:

[ellianth]

  .will said:

Wow this is terrible! First and foremost; don't get my wrong I love:

1. Google Search

2. Gmail

3. Picasa

4. Blogger

5. Google Earth

This is crap. It is only for Gmail users?! None of my friends have a clue what Gmail is! I was really hoping for AIM interoperability. This doens't even seem like an IM client. I guess it isn't really. I guess I just pegged it wrong from the start. This is not an alternative to AIM or MSN. The interface is gorgeously simple, but what you see is what you get. I know this is a beta, but I can't see this getting much different.

I really don't see the need for this. If you wanna IM, use AIM or MSN. If you want to talk (voice) to friends, use AIM, MSN, or a VOIP service. Google Talk seems like an akward go-between.

I certainly can't see merely getting friends to sign up for a new IM client that is no better than AIM, but furthermore getting them to sign up for Gmail? Pfft.

I was really looking forward to this, I guess I was just expecting a different product.

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They said something along the lines of google talk would work with other services as long as the people who provided the other services would be willing to cooperate.

Cool program. It's a shame i have no one to talk to at the moment :'(. Someone add me ellianth@gmail.com (it's my birthday in 3 days this could be your present to me :D )

Edit: Quote from talk.google.com -

" What new features are you working on?

We could tell you, but then you'd have to promise to not talk about it... Joking aside, Google Talk is still in beta, and we're working hard to add features and make improvements. We're just not quite ready yet to reveal the other cool things we've got planned. We can say this, though: we believe strongly in user choice and open standards, and we are committed to letting users access Google Talk using the client and platform of their choice, as well as to enabling our users to talk with users from other service providers."

Edited August 25, 2005 by ellianth

[thedoors27]

I can't even add my friend with a gmail account to talk to him. It keeps saying so and so invited, he appears online and then dissapears and he says mines doing the same thing.

I know its a beta but phhh it's shocking.

[oddcrap]

I don't understand why they would release a IM program if you can't register a gmail account.. it's still beta what's going on here

EDIT: Oh, google talk is in beta.. figures :)

[bakerster]

exciting :)

someone add me

bakerster at gmail dot com

[nexx]

Google now has instructions for Miranda on their web page:

http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html

:yes:

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

i like it and all.. but i find myself with WAY less friends on it... only people who understand computers use google talk... it might catch on later.. or die like eXeem.

i got 200+ people on MSN.. and like 2 on google talk.. im not gonna bother switching. plus it looks like MSN 1.1... wheres the options! and the features..

[tr4nce]

nicee tr4nce at gmail dot com

Someone add me to try it! xD

[Scibbers]

  lylesback2 said:

it looks like MSN 1.1... wheres the options!  and the features..

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I like how clean it is, as msn was getting a little cluttered with all the features (switched to trillian a month ago). it also uses almost no memory :)

I dunno if this has been mentioned, but the VoIP function is _really_ clear, and super fast....much better than skype, msn's voicechat, ventrillo or any other VoIP I have used.

[Ghatak]

looks good (Y)

[lsquare]

Since GoogleTalk is based on jabber, can we log on using our jabber account name? I hope we can soon use non-gmail base accounts...

[yisman]

my e-mail is yisman (gmail.com of course). Feel free to add me.

[EL]

http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/topic.py?topic=1415

for third party apps

[G4M3R]

mark.neale (@) gmail.com if you want to add someone else :D

[P!P]

  pcw said:

Who is this Google person, I would like to meet him. He sounds like one helluva guy!

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Shut up.. I hadn't slept for like 20 hours when I wrote that. ;)

[wilflare]

  Nitrate said:

Clicking 'Inbox' does nothing for me when 'Visit gmail when I click email links' is checked or not.

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Same thing is happening for me.

What's your default browser?

[thefonz]

can i add all my microsoft messenger contacts to it?

[Andre]

GT chat window is nice, but I ain't running two seprated IM programs just for that. Using GT with Miranda now instead. Besides the trouble of adding other people, it seems to work fine since it's pretty much Jabber.