So the rumors about Google offering an IM (Instant Message) service appear to be true. There are already instructions on how to connect to their Jabber server. All you need is a GMail account. I’m on Google Talk right now using iChat on Mac OS X.
Servername: talk.google.com
Username: yourusername@gmail.com
Password: yourgmailpassword.
I’m curious to see where they’ll take this. The obvious thing that Google could add to IM is the ability to include your logged conversations in search results.
UPDATE 9:00pm 23 Aug 2005: The official Google Talk site is now live.
UPDATE 8:45am 24 Aug 2005: Someone has already discovered an easter egg in Google Talk:
In the about box (right click the taskbar icon) there should be this
play 23 21 13 16 21 19 . 7 1 13 5
substitute letters for numbers and you get
“wumpus.game”
add this to to your freinds list minus the quotes and play an old irc game!
I haven’t been able to make this work yet, I’m still waiting for my invitation to be approved.
UPDATE 10:15am 24 Aug 2005: An announcement was posted to the Google Blog this morning.
August 25th, 2005 at 6:21 am stephen
Posted some screenshots, features, and tips and tricks if anyone is interested. http://nunzi.blogspot.com