in the past three days, i have received invites to use google Talk. ok people… i already have it, not as a stand-alone chat program but integrated with my Trillian pro (using jabber plugin). i have problem connecting to the server for unknown reason. i kept disconnecting and reconnecting. that might be the reason why you will not see me online.
anyway…i heard the news about google talk last week when it was still a rumour. visiting talk.google.com didnt yield anything. but three days ago, when it was officially released, the subdomain came to live. i havent downloaded the stand alone software as i dont see the need to. it can be integrated with my Trillian using the jabber plugin. it’s not working exactly the way you want it to be, but it has stabilised in the past hour or so. so im quite happy about it.
this is definitely part of the google’s campaign against the aggressive IM players like MSN or Yahoo. before you know it, ur whole pc will run a Google OS (you heard it here first!). but competition can only bring benefits to end-consumers. we can only encourage it! So start downloading your google IM, to show the rest of the players that their lock-in consumer approach will no longer work. for open source is here to stay!
Have you seen this?
http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
In the year 2014, the New York Times has gone offline.
The Fourth Estate’s fortunes have waned.
What happened to the news?
And what is EPIC?