Google Talk Available Early

smash writes "Google's new IM service is already live. All you need is a Jabber-compatible Instant Messaging client (such as Apple's iChat, or gaim), and a GMail address." This should answer, at least in part, all of the speculation that has been flying around the net over the last couple of days. Update: Many users have been eager to let us know that Google Talk in indeed live.

Google tomorrow?

[Nuclear Elephant]

Stay tuned to Google tomorrow for details.

Er, is that one http://tomorrow.google.com/ [google.com] ?

huh?

[keyvoh]

What is a google?

Now spy on your friends!

[IIDX]

Use the power of google search to find juicy tidbits in other's google talk conversations!

Re:Cool, I'm there...!

[Nuclear Elephant]

I just created my account. I'm cbergeron.

I'm bgates$$. Please feel free to add me to your list.

OMFG Google

[katana]

r u google? omfg! lol

Re:ugh, throw it on the heap...

[urdine]

Why, friendly google adwords, of course! Talking about baseball? Why not visit espn.com? Or better yet, Baseball on eBay. 1000s of Baseballs for Sale!

Re:Meh

[flibble-san]

the point is... google is teh cool

Eh

[Trip Ericson]

Google Talk is great, but what I REALLY need is 'Google ShutUp' to make the irritating people I know go away while providing them with targetted, text-based ads.

OK

[The Bungi]

Check this one - nn to the next round of breathless speculation about what Google will do.

Will they release an office suite?
Will they release a browser?
Will they release a line of refrigerators?
Will they purchase Oracle?
Will they purchase Uruguay?
Will they hire Stallman?
Will they hire Ballmer?
Will they hire Peter Griffin?

I sure as hell don't know, but I'm sure I'll hear about it constantly on GashDot. Um... I mean Slashoogle. Er, that is... Slooshdot. Eh, fuck it.

Google spellchecking

[flibble-san]

I wonder if they will add Google-style spellchecking... omfg lol rofl - Did you mean "I'm a sad script kiddy?"

Great

[dtfinch]

Now I have yet another account with no buddies in Gaim.

Re:Google tomorrow?

[LiquidCoooled]

Some enterprising young PFY is going to run around the google campus tomorrow shouting off about all the hits to a new google subdomain.

Any number of PHDs will be fevorishly amending their projects to fit into this new domain.
The stock price is going to rocket based on yet more speculation of features and we will have even less reason to leave google.

All because you made a first post joke.

Congratulations.

gmail icks me

[Anonymous Coward]

I know it's childish of me but if bill gates were handing out a thousand dollars and 50 golden fish rings to anybody with a golden fish ring and the only way to get the golden fish ring was to beg one off of somebody who had 50 of them and had gotten theirs in the same way, then I'd say, "Stick the thousand in your fish ring!". I've been offered a zillion GMail accounts and I just can't stomach the way they are being dolled out.

Re:insider source?

[Anonymous Coward]

have a cron job to do a dictionary search of *.google.com every few hours....

Re:Gmail

[L0rdJedi]

Feel free to send an invite my way:

l0rdjedi at yahoo dot com

Am I the only one?

[Anonymous Coward]

Can I possibly be the only one wondering if Google saw all the people chasing their own tails about a google messenger, and tossed a jabber server online just to mess with your heads?

Or could it possibly just be the jabber server that google itself uses internally?

Let me introduce you to "Grip", and suggest that it's a fine product that you all should get.

Re:Google tomorrow?

[Stormwatch]

"Couldn't locate tomorrow.google.com"... whoa! You've slashdotted Google! I didn't think that was possible!

Re:Google tomorrow?

[kuhneng]

Hey, now there's a service I'd like to see from Google: search web sites from the future. That would put an end to all of this tiring speculation on what new service they'll think up next.

Come to think of it, they could incorporate the technology into other parts of the side. Why present a list of results when you can search the future logs to find out which result I'm going to click and take me straight there.

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Re:OK

[ImaLamer]

Will they buy oracle? No 'cause its not open source

Not until they buy it... muhahahaha!

Re:Google tomorrow?

[iamlucky13]

Any number of PHDs will be fevorishly amending their projects to fit into this new domain. The stock price is going to rocket based on yet more speculation of features and we will have even less reason to leave google.

Google tomorrow??? Stock prices rocketing??? Are you suggesting that Google is about to release a time machine? I knew it! I'd better call my broker.

Re:Gmail

[Sixpack, Joe]

heh, even I knew that.

There goes Philosophy point #2

[wombert]

From http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/tenthings. html [google.com]

Google does search. Google does not do horoscopes, financial advice or chat.

(Guess they better remember to update that page when they make the announcement...)

And the real burning question - When can I get my Googlescope???

Re:Google tomorrow?

[kai.chan]

Er, is that one http://tomorrow.google.com/ [google.com]

Google Tomorrow's mission is to organize the future and make it universally accessible and useful. When you, a Slashdot user, visit tomorrow.google.com, you'll be able to find information about your future love and careers; search through more than three billion girls and find that you will be alone for the rest of eternity; then peruse the world's largest archive of future jobs -- that have all been outsourced to India dating back to 1995.

Re:ugh, throw it on the heap...

[TLSPRWR]

If you RTFA, you will see that talk.google.com requires TLS to connect.

Don't you dare use me to connect. I have limited enough bandwidth as is.

Re:Google tomorrow?

[DJStealth]

This review [downloadsquad.com] has pictures of the actual client! No word on how they got a copy.

Re:OK

[MatthewNewberg]

Peter Griffin? What about Stewie Griffin? Stewie would be more interested in googles plan of world domination and development of death rays on the moon then Peter would be. http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html [google.com]

Re:Google tomorrow?

[Hes Nikke]

sounds like "I'm feeling lucky"

Re:Google tomorrow?

[MikeXpop]

It's not available today...

Re:Google tomorrow?

[Refrag]

They probably downloaded [google.com] it.

Wow!

[Will2k_is_here]

Ha! Begging for Gmail invites! That's so 2004.

Re:OK

[natrius]

That would be freakin' sweet.

No, that would really grind my gears.

Personal Jabber Server

[ari_j]

I'll see your buddy-free accounts and raise you a buddy-free server. So that my excessively arrogant and self-centered e-mail address would be matched with an equally cocky IM address, I ran my own Jabber server for several years and had on it just the one account and on that account zero contacts.

Re:Google tomorrow?

[wdr1]

Huh, so is that where the downloads for Linux & OS X will be?

-Bill

Re:Gmail

[bahwi]

Hey, shut up. It's the only exclusive club I can get into these days(and I still had to buy my invite!). Now I can laugh at all those 100meg hotmail users. Losers.

Dilbert

[Koiu Lpoi]

"Griffin in finance or the mythical creature?"

"Whichever is harder."

FEIC

[panaceaa]

But what if a major event happened and everyone needed to email each other to say everything's okay??? Would Google have enough space to hold all the emails?? I demand to have a federal email corporation that insures that there's enough space in times of emergencies! If Google runs out of space, then the government should give us enough space for 100,000 emails. Otherwise, the people who send emails first will get all the email space and everyone else will be silenced and forced on the streets (to talk to people in person, God forbid!!).

Re:automatically adds your gmail contacts

[srid]

PS: You can jabber me at [e-mail]

s/jabber/slashdot/

That's nothing!

[Anonymous Coward]

The other day somebody inadvertantly linked to slashdot from slashdot, and wound up slashdotting slashdot!

Re:Thats the whole point

[SamSim]

Thousands of [rtGDS'p7500-0'p"£!$ now available at eBay!