[NTLUG:Discuss] Terry wants to talk to you using Google Talk

[Chris Cox]

MadHat Unspecific wrote:
> Chris Cox wrote:
>> Chris Albertson wrote:
>>> * Not a Windows user? No problem. You can also connect to the Google
>>> Talk service from any platform using third-party clients
>>> (http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html).
>>>
>>>
>>> Also, they recently built google talk into gmail.
>>
>> I suppose I'm a bit curious.  What does Google talk buy you?
>>
>> Is it more than Just Another IM???
> 
> Google talk is Jabber with a few things duct taped on the outside
> (piggybacking the jabber protocol).  Any Jabber client will work with
> it, but if you want to "talk" you have to use the Windows client, last I
> checked.

Well.. I guess the good news is that it's jabber.

Makes you wonder about the Windows only client... but at least
any ole jabber will work with it.  That alone makes it
somewhat nicer than the others.

One feature that the folks where I work like about Yahoo is the
ability to create "private" rooms/groups where several can
converse together.  I know when I looked at gabber/etc a few
years back, that feature either wasn't there or didn't work
well.  Comments on that?