Follow up to this LISNews item:
Search Engine Watch reports:
Google Rumored To Launch Instant Messaging Tomorrow
Google to Deliver Instant Messages from the Los Angeles Times has unnamed sources telling the paper that Google will launched an instant messaging service called Google Talk as early as tomorrow. Aside from IM, the tool would also offer voice chat similar to what Yahoo Messenger currently offers.
Google’s said to have been testing the service for at least a month. Google confirmed to the LA Times that it had a new product to release this week (when don’t they?) but declined to say if it was Google Talk was the product.
The New York Times yesterday wrote that “Google executives” said they’d unveil a “communications tool” on Wednesday but not exactly what that would be.
Via The Librarian’s Rant.
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The Guardian in England has a lengthy piece on this, datelined August 24:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1
“… two things make it unusual. First, it is based mainly on open standards, rather than being closed and proprietary. Second, the offering includes internet telephony using voice over internet protocol technology.”
People are already using google talk
See this blog post