Have you heard?

[SinbadEV]

In a bid to completely take over the Internet (and are we complaining? really?), Google has started offering an Instant Messenging (text and voice chat => http://www.google.com/talk/ ), I havn't tried it out but I intend to when I get home.

[Kixxe]

I hope trillian connect to it... it's Icq, Msn, Yahoo AND Irc in one programs. It's Great!

[Maelstrom]

Hey well I have it. Add my email from my profile if anyone wants to chat. Looks very... Plain right now. But its bound to get better. All google stuff does eventually.

[SinbadEV]

http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/ ... swer=24077

Looks like it's based on the Jabber protocol, so Trillian is already supported.

[SwiftSpear]

Man, I swear, in a few years people will just call it the 'googlenet'

[Zoombie]

but then again, isent Googlenet a really really cool name?

[aGorm]

No one will call it anything. Just like nowadays most people say I was using my computer and i found out how to change the start bar to a different colour. When they mean I was using windows and I found out how to change the start bar colour.

Google is alredy practiclyt synomous with teh words "searched the net".

However i must agree GoogleNet is a very cool name, but watch it they might nick it!

aGorm

[FizWizz]

why are the only choices "yes" and "yes"?
I use AltaVista.

[SinbadEV]

Because you have too much stupid in your head!

[Michilus_nimbus]

everybody add michilus.nimbus (curly thingy) gmail (dot thingy) com!

[genblood]

Google this and Google that ...

Don't count Microsoft out ... Remember Netscape .... RealAudio
They where the talk and in a few years they crashed and buried.

Microsoft moves slow, but they always get their way in the end.

Just think about it, you might not have what you have today
without Microsoft... :idea:

Google stocks are over priced and will mostly likely come
crashing to earth in the coming months.

[Sheekel]

Have any one you seen Google Earth? It's absolutly amazing. Google took thousands of sattelite images from space and made a complete map of the world. Every street name, every business, every dirt road in kansas. The resolution gets worse in areas that "dont matter" (or are unpopulated). You can type in your address and it will zoom to 300m above your house from space! Get it here (free version, don't bother with the $400 pro). It's scary to think the government can see the tacs on our roof and the petals on my mom's flowers....from space (though they most likely had this 10 years ago)

http://earth.google.com/

[[K.B.] Napalm Cobra]

Time to get out those tinfoil hats

[Zoombie]

That is SOOO cool! HA! Sam (my nebbour) now i can spy on you WITHOUT telescopes!

[PauloMorfeo]

...
Just think about it, you might not have what you have today
without Microsoft... :idea:
...

Indeed. Probably much better operating systems due to competition. :idea:

[FizWizz]

Indeed. Probably much better operating systems due to competition. :idea:

Ouch, burn!

I am NOT defending Microsoft here, but maybe Microsoft has created some kind of standardization here with its monopolization. That might have been beneficial, but it could also be irrelevant, but I wouldn't know because I'm not a tech-head. Could someone enlighten me?

[GrOuNd_ZeRo]

an94 dot abakan at gmail dot com here.

good luck adding me men!

[[K.B.] Napalm Cobra]

Standards such as Explorer?

[Maelstrom]

ugh... Intenet Explorer and Standards do not go together. Not even in the same room. Possibly, if were lucky, they might be on the same planet. Unlikley though. IE is bad. Thats not a good point in Microsoft's History.

[FizWizz]

Okay, maybe not then, I won't suggest it again. I agree too, that IE is bad. I've long since made the switch to a good 3rd party browser