August 24, 200520 yr Well, Google does it again. They just released their newest program, a google Instant Messanging service. talk.google.com I've been using this for the past hour with some friends, and I can easily say it tops MSN and AIM So, you use your g-mail account, so you don't have to sign up for anything new. You add other people to your list. As it is with google, everything is small, neat/tidy, and good google color scheme, which is very convienant. It doesn't have any pop-ups or 'MSN TODAY!' type screens that come up when you start, which is very nice. Glad to see they haven't collapsed to the commerical market yet. Also, they included a stellar VOIP into it. Right now, you can only talk to 1 person at a time, but it is really good. Very good quality, it sounds just like a phone call (to emphasis this, whenever you invite someone to a VOIP session, you are 'sending them a phone call' and you hear telephone rings. If the person doesn't accept, they miss it, like a real phone). Whenever you talk to a new person, it stacks that IM window under any other IM windows you have open. You can then click on the person's name, and the IM window will shrink down to a little bar, so you can easily file through all the people you're talking to. Only complaints I have is that it would be awesome if you could add multiple people to a conversation, then talk to all of them with your mic. It would be an amazing replacement to Ventrilo and Teamspeak. And no webcam support as I know of (but you can be sure they'll add that in the near future) It'd also be neat if you could call real world places, but I'm just dreaming with that one anyway, those of you with gmail accounts, I highly recommand getting this then sending out invites to all your friends. add me when you get it arstpierre@gmail.com just like to add, the program is still in beta, so there are many more features and improvements to come 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. http://www.google.com/talk/about.html
August 24, 200520 yr Author yessir gmail.google.com 2gbs of storage if anyone wants an account, I got 49 invites left, e-mail me
August 24, 200520 yr Google never ceases to impress me. I would start complaining about a monopoly but they haven't screwed me over at all, and its allllll free
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