Google Talk

Post by **Grandpa Stu** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 7:06 am

anyone use it? know what it's about? even heard of it?

just saw it on the left side when i was checking my e-mail and wanna get the "i've used it and here's what it's all about" lowdown.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 7:12 am

old. not worth a crap until it's cross platform. works fine for what it is but no one's using it. the world doesn't need another chat protocol.

Post by **Jackal** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:50 pm

We use it at my work and just about every single game developer, publisher, and client we have uses it too. It's great.

Post by **Doombrain** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:01 pm

Take your pick.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:16 pm

Jackal wrote:We use it at my work and just about every single game developer, publisher, and client we have uses it too. It's great.

why is that work field more interested in it?

Post by **Jackal** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:17 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
Jackal wrote:We use it at my work and just about every single game developer, publisher, and client we have uses it too. It's great.
why is that work field more interested in it?

Because you have clients, developers, and publishers all over the world. Using the phone gets to be quite costly, therefore VOIP is your best solution.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:19 pm

silly guy. i meant why that particular protocol.

Post by **dzjepp** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:20 pm

Skype is good to but I think it got bloated somewhwere down the road. They do have video now too though which is nice.

Post by **Jackal** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:23 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:silly guy. i meant why that particular protocol.

if theinfrastructure is there, use it.
It's that simple.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:26 pm

got to be more to it than that for , from what you describe, practically the entire game industry that you're involved with to be using it over another.

Post by **Jackal** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:43 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:got to be more to it than that for , from what you describe, practically the entire game industry that you're involved with to be using it over another.

I'm not involved with "the entire game industry", just a select few people at certain times.
Skype was mentioned earlier and that's used a lot too.

Post by **Foo** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:21 pm

We believe that you should have a choice in how you communicate with your friends, that you shouldn't have to use one service because that's where you keep your contacts and other information. We launched free auto-forwarding and POP access for Gmail so our users could take their messages with them and use any service they want, and we're committed to upholding this idea of user choice for Google Talk as well. Today, with instant communications, you can't talk to your contacts or buddies in one service while using another service. We hope to change that. We want to work with other willing service providers to enable their users to communicate directly with Google Talk users. And while we hope many people will use and like the Google Talk client, we're committed to making it as easy as possible for you to communicate with your friends using the client that you want--even if it doesn't happen to be ours. That's why we're also supporting open standards and the same protocol that clients such as Trillian, GAIM and iChat do.

As for the voice chat side of the program, it's open-standards. Skype is a closed source client, and the Skype developers are complete cunts when it comes to integration. Not surprising from the people who brought us Kazaa.

So for VOIP and general IM (Google Talk uses the Jabber protocol, which is OS), it's currently the best choice.

Lots more info on this page for people who are intelligent enough to read: http://www.google.co.uk/talk/developer.html