Bharat S. M. Karavadra

Google Talk

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

My friends at The HoBB just emailed me to let me know about Google Talk.

I had heard something about it somewhere but it had gone out of my mind till now.

So, I had a quick read (it provides voice and instant messaging for free), downloaded and installed it (quick and easy and does away with Gmail Notifier) and logged in to have a look (need a microphone to talk). Damn!

When I get some time I’ll find a decent and cheap microphone and give Google talk a go – it may help me do live help from my site.

So till then, the only other thing I noticed was that it automatically downloads your list of contacts from your Gmail account, so that’s save us all some time.

Will Google Talk do away with telephones and all the other instant messengers?