Comments on: Google Talk Adds Voice Mail, File Sharing http://gigaom.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:47:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Keith http://gigaom.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122409 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:25:26 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122409 There is still not change in the interface. But I guess that’s a good thing. Complication just make the codes bigger. Most importantly is functionality.

]]> By: Nick Hawkins http://gigaom.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122408 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:38:23 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122408 I’m not impressed by the new GTalk client. I mean, cool – it’ll pop up what I’m listening to on iTunes to my 3 friends who actually use GTalk instead of the 50+ that use AIM.

]]> By: Randhir Reddy http://gigaom.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122407 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:25:54 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122407 File Transfer feature, i guess, is a test bed for GDrive, where there’d lot of file transfers, so this kind of helps them to iron out any teething problems . And Voicemail for their possible Telephone service.
Gmail chat is used by most for chatting, instead of the Talk client. Hence the name. People still think chatting as in IM client, time to think afresh.

]]> By: Matt S http://gigaom.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122406 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:53:33 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122406 hmm, maybe they will UnFederate; I would love to be able to call my Asterisk* Extension using Google talk. That would really shake things up.

]]> By: Dave Zatz http://gigaom.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122405 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:45:47 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122405 Google has updated their blog with all the details:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/more-ways-to-connect-and-share-with.html

Download the new client here:
http://www.google.com/talk/

]]> By: Brian http://gigaom.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122404 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:34:02 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122404 I am sure those of you who are using Google talk will have no problems when you get an ad based on the context of your phone call. Imagine Goog interrupting your conversation with a little jingle to remind you buy something…to far fetched? Maybe..but with Google, nothing is free.

For those of you who are going to say the TOS says they do not that – fine. Those of us who read GigaOm and other blogs realize this but the masses do not. That is whom I am referring to.

I would be curious to hear others take on this…

Love the new format!

]]> By: Brian http://gigaom.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122403 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:30:13 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122403 I am sure those of you who are using Google talk will have no problems when you get an ad based on the context of your phone call. Imagine Goog interrupting your conversation with a little jingle to remind you buy something…to far fetched? Maybe..but with Google, nothing is free.

]]> By: Trey http://gigaom.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122402 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:18:09 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122402 The beauty of GTalk—as in most of Google’s other apps—is in its simplicity and ease of use. I doubt you will ever see this app get loaded with a bunch of useless crap like AIM’s emoticons, etc. Google will likely leave that up to developers.

The voicemail (integrated with GMail) and file sharing features are clean and efficient. Not sure why they went with music player presence, though. Perhaps to appeal to a broader universe of users?

I work in a small office, and GTalk has become an ESSENTIAL part of our daily workflow process. To the point now that if forced, we might pay for it. But don’t tell Google that.

]]> By: Thyaga http://gigaom.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122401 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:57:15 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122401 Actually, i like Google Talk just for the fact that it works the best amongst Skype / Yahoo IM and the host of other IM tools when we need to talk to India ! For some reason, Google Talk has the best performance.

Also, it is such a light install that it really makes a lot of difference especially when the download speeds in most places are still slow.

Having said that, I always felt that it needed the Voice Mail feature (i am not so much hooked up onto sending files) and now that they have it, they should be able to improve their Comscore rankings :)

]]> By: Ajay http://gigaom.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122400 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:23:33 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/08/16/google-talk-upgrade/#comment-122400 I just don’t find the existing interface of gtalk very polished. Hopefully the new interface will be more crispier.

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