Google Talk Updates
I admit it, I’m not a huge IM fan. I like chatting from time to time, but I usually am too bored / introvert / hesitant to talk with any people other than my real life friends.
I recently made excessive use of Google Talk, though, a) because it’s so lightweight it hurts b) because my friends list in Gmail is not littered with irrelevant people and clients (why, god, why) as my MSN buddy list.
Google Talk is not a perfect IM app, but it’s fast, relatively stable and offers what needs to be offered: easy talking and chatting. Recently, it was updated to reflect our needs, adding cool features as:
- File Transfers: At last, now you can share files without e-mailing them, directly from GTalk, no size limits, (promised) stable p2p connection. Bliss!
- Voicemail: How cool is that. GTalk gives you the opportunity to record a voice mail and send it to one of your contacts, which receives it through e-mail and can save it to her PC. Really cool.
- Music Status, aka “I’m listening to…”: Not as important an update as the previous, but still a nice addition, much sought after by many users. If you want, you can also contribute your music trends to Google Music Trends, and share them with other people. I can’t think of a valid reason to do that, but anyway.
It’s not a huge update, but these additions surely add to GTalk prestige as an IM app. I can’t wait to put them to use.
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August 20th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
I too am not a big IM person, but I liked GTalk as soon as I saw it. Unforuntately, IM clients are a lot like the MySpace model - if all your friends are on another one, it makes it very hard to swtich.
Still, it’s a very nice client. If I have to use one, GTalk would be my choice.