Dirson (he found talk.google.com is live, but not responding) and many others, including the NYT yesterday, have been speculating about a new communications tool promised out of the Googleplex for tomorrow. I’ve heard it’s anything from an IM client to full blown free WiFi for the masses. I have no special insight into this, but I do believe IM is a no brainer. MSFT, Yahoo, and AOL all have IM clients. IM ties folks to a platform, and that’s what Google is building with Desktop et al. VOIP is another possibility. Om and others have found that Google is running a Jabber client, for example, and speculate that Google is about to introduce a VOIP/IM meta client that works with multiple IM clients. That would certainly be cool.
In any case, stay tuned. The other shoe will drop Weds.
Hey John, thanks for the mention. Speaking of Talk, I’m looking for some folks to join a Search Engine Marketers Fantasy Football League at Yahoo (for some trash talkin’).
If you are interested, the league is at http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1
League ID#: 345215
Password: msnkeywords
If you want a screenshot for Google Talk, go here:
http://www.neowin.net/staff/marshalus/googleim.png
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